- Timings rescheduled owing to night curfew
- Saturday and Sunday concerts postponed due to weekend curfew
Mysore/Mysuru: The 60th Heritage Music Festival, organised by Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mandali Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust at 8th Cross, V.V. Mohalla, will begin from tomorrow (Jan. 6).
The Heritage Music Festival, which is well-known as ‘8th Cross Ganesha Music Festival’ as music concerts are organised every year during the Ganesha Festival for the past 60 years at 8th Cross, V.V. Mohalla, is for the first time being held in the month of January. Following COVID outbreak, the previous edition (the 59th Festival) was held online in 2020.
Many renowned artistes will be performing at the venue every day, excluding weekends, at 6.15 pm till Jan. 26. Everyday, Kavya Vaachana will be held between 5.15 pm and 6.15 pm.
However, the weekend concerts, which were scheduled earlier, have been postponed due to weekend curfew. The revised dates will be announced by the organisers soon.
Tomorrow (Jan. 6), Vidwan T.M. Krishna will present a vocal concert. He will be accompanied by Vidwan Sheik Subhani and Vidushi Sheik Kaleeshabi on Nagaswara, Vidushi Akkarai Subhalakshmi on Violin; Vidwan Praveen Sparsh – Mridanga and Vidwan Giridhar Udupa – Ghata.
Shame on the 8th cross organizets for inviting this anti hindi anti brahmin atheist communist. In the name of music, he spreads lies and hatred and abuses hindus and our dieties, but the organisers chose to invite him. Every hindu with an iota of self respect should boycott this program and file protest to otganisers. Disgusting.
If you are referring to the vocalist named above, who has an accompaniment of a weird bunch of instrumentalists in the name of innovation, the Google search says him as the ‘grand nephew of TT Krishnamachari’, the finance minister in Nehru government, resigned under a cloud called the ‘Mundra’ affair’. TT K was a Brahmin.
This person perhaps of the opinion that projecting a socialist and anti-Brahmin and atheist image-the latter is not compatible with the Carnatic music ethos, wants to carve up a niche place for himself.
Well, it is not Mysuru the cultural city anymore.
Cont… Even if we submit a protest against this hateful vile person’s concert at 8-cross Ganapathi dhanur maas event, organizers will easily brand this as a ‘threat’ and accuse hindus as rogues. Shamelessness among hindus (including these organizers and those who attend) has reached its height that they even eulogize and share stage with a traitor of the kala parampara. Here is a hardhitting piece on this hindu hating, terrorist sympathizing musician, which every music enthusiast with a little bit of daivabhakti must read – https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/t-m-krishna-the-musical-urban-naxal .
This person’s political cunningness and disservice to art can be understood from this lament written by renouned dance artist Sonal Mansingh https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/tm-krishna-political-views-carnatic-music-5448674/
Even if we ignore the art, as a human and an Indian, it is utterly shameful to organize and attend programs or sharing stage with those who enjoy killings of hindus and who sympathizes with Ajmal Kasab for death penalty.