As announced yesterday in this column, I am reproducing what I wrote about K. Srikantiah in Star of Mysore in 1990. Hey Ram! Hello Ram! We may be rid of the Ramayana serial on TV but not the annual feature of Ramanavami — Lord Rama’s birthday. I don’t know why Ramanavami is linked to music…
Ramanavami is here: Jai Shri Ram
April 10, 2025Let me also remember K. Srikantiah, lest we forget a GREAT Music Patron The last time I remembered Lord Shri Ram was when I went to Ayodhya in September, 2024 to see the newly-built Ram Temple in the place where earlier Mughal invader Babur had built the Babri Masjid. God Sees the Truth, But Waits!…
Remembering Mysore’s Art Patron K. Srikantiah this Ramanavami
April 9, 2025He hosted home concerts at “Parvathi” for nearly 70 years By Sachi R. Sachidananda The world woke up one morning in last September to the sad news that K. Srikantiah (KS), well-known to Karnatak (Carnatic) rasikas around the world as the patriarch of the “Home called Parvathi” had moved on…passing away in his sleep in…
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