Prominent personalities who are CM rasikas

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 21 Feb 2009, 15:37

My prayers too. I heard he is recovering well.

Getting back to the topic of this thread...
Would be interested in hearing about the reverse scenario, i.e. Carnatic musicians who also excel in other areas.
Rudrapatnam brothers (or at least one of them) are top-class researchers in Microbiology, I've heard. .
Is Sanjay a Chartered Accountant?
(Of course, Balaji Shankar seems to have left CM and moved into the world of IT, if rumors about him are correct.)

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 21 Feb 2009, 16:30

...Not fogetting our own 'kamalamba' who has been recognized as the top-class researcher by the Singapore Govt!

Sundara Rajan · Post by **Sundara Rajan** » 21 Feb 2009, 21:52

In his message to the 80th birth anniversary of Semmangudi Mu KaruNAnidhi said that "he was relieved that Semmangudi did not choose politics as his profession for otherwise he would have been a great adversary" !

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 22 Feb 2009, 01:13

..and SSI perhaps was thinking that if Mu Ka had chosen CM as his profession he would have been a formidable adversary !

(of CM

(at any rate Mu Ka is the greatest CM lover in TN since he has been at it now a record five times

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Feb 2009, 01:20

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 22 Feb 2009, 04:59

CM (Carnatic Music) Lover , writing about CM (Chief Ministership) Lover-

I am repeating my favourite line-
'pAmbin kAl pAmbaRiyum'.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 22 Feb 2009, 05:50

Yes indeed!
As a brahmin I am considered even worse than a snake by the Mu Ka political alliance

(But being a Gandhian I do wish him speedy recovery from Surgey to pursue his record CM lovership for the sixth time!

Sundara Rajan · Post by **Sundara Rajan** » 22 Feb 2009, 08:13

CML, You guessed it right ! (post #54) That indeed was SSI's response !

baboosh · Post by **baboosh** » 28 Mar 2009, 16:00

Ramaprasad wrote:Shri Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations (student of Musri)

Dr. Raja Ramanna, Nuclear Physicist

C.V.Narasimhan also performed in the august company of MSS at Tiruvaiaru which photo I have seen

cacm · Post by **cacm** » 30 Mar 2009, 08:01

The late Great Nobel Laurate S.Chandrasekhar was a great fan of MMI & actually listened to THE LATEST MMI Concert fully before discussing his own paper when I first met him in 1959! Similarly there are many other greats who instantly recognise GREATNESS! VKV

T.T.SRINIVASAN · Post by **T.T.SRINIVASAN** » 31 Mar 2009, 15:21

Sir C.V RAMAN in his house at Raman Research Institute was regularly litening to Violin Maestro Sri T.S.TATACHAR's violin recital twice in a week form 6 pm to 6.45pm. He was very punctual w.r.t.time. He used to be ready at the stroke of 6pm . With rapt attention he was listening. In addition to enjoying music he was observing violin playing techniques like bowing , fingering .variations of sound etc. He was asking Mr.Tatachar to explain him raga , keertana, tala & swara invoved ----T.T.Srinivasan

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 01 Apr 2009, 02:22

Uday_Shankar wrote:Apparently, MGR was a great CM rasika

Seems like he was a great Rafi fan too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_F8QjXRk8Y
(look for him right at the end of this video clip)

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 01 Apr 2009, 02:37

I was listening to a lecture demo on Papanasam Sivan by Setalapatti Balasubramanian. He says that Rajagopalan (if I am right with the name) is Papanasam Sivan's brother and Janaki's - MGR's wife - father.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 01 Apr 2009, 04:54

Her name is V N Janaki and she is a malayaaLee (?Nair). It is most unlikely she is related to P Sivan..

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 01 Apr 2009, 07:06

Not true - CML - She in indeed P. Sivan's niece....

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 01 Apr 2009, 11:23

This is confirmed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papanasam_Sivan but there is no reference.

baboosh · Post by **baboosh** » 01 Apr 2009, 11:54

rshankar wrote:Not true - CML - She in indeed P. Sivan's niece....

It is quite true.Rajagopalaiyer was in film and she was born thro Narayani ammal a nair woman,who was also in films.Papanasam sivan or Polagam Ramaiah(his original name) and Rajagopalaiyer were our distant relations

hindolam · Post by **hindolam** » 01 Apr 2009, 15:53

MGR was a die hard fan of UKS. In a small article in Kumudam or Anandavikatan (I don't remember which) he stated that he often carried a cassette contaiining UKS's mridangam--hearing it he said ---relieved him of stress. In 1976 music season he sat in the front row of MFAC (from beginning to end) and heard a jugalbandhi between TNKrishnan, Pandit Ram Narain (sarangi) UKS on mridangam and Suresh Talwar on tabla. To his right for the full concert sat Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna.