Sampradaya under the new leadership of t.m. krishna has come out with an excellent initiative titled `Samvada'. Here a platform is provided for a dialogue between a very senior artiste and a moderator. Basically, it is intended to get such artistes speak on themselves, their learnings, their style of schooling, their views on very many issues et al. It is pretty nice to hear them talk about assorted issues - technical and non-technical. So far, the dialogue series has featured R.K.Shrikantan, T.K. Murthy and Kalpakam Swaminathan. The next one will feature M.S.Gopalakrishnan. In these three editions, we saw same intense conversation. The audience - though not big in number - too participated lively. For those who wish to know what these three have said in their dialogue, i request them to read the link
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