TNS at Ananta Padmanabhaswamy Temple, 4/3/09

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 30 Mar 2009, 02:48

Not usually but in this instance Yes.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 30 Mar 2009, 03:16

Hello Saroja Ramanujam,

You are free to write your views and reviews here on TNS even if they are as excessively adulatory as they are. I am sure we dont want to offend you but as long as you dont mind other people talking of TNS in less adulatory terms than you, please continue.

We will ensure that no one (artists or rasikas) are abused in the name of freedom of speech, but you should not mind the genuine criticisms as well.

I have often wondered what can make someone praise TNS like you do... I would like to find that much joy in his singing as you do... but I am not so knowledgeable.

Thanks for the understanding

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Mar 2009, 05:18

'Mr.VK' trying to avert an am'bush' if one is in the works. That's all. Call it a moderator's reflexes

By the way, the mrudangam duo is turning us into habitual 'punsters!

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 30 Mar 2009, 10:34

srkris wrote:other people talking of TNS in less adulatory terms than you

I think the webmaster is full of "asooya" :p

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 30 Mar 2009, 12:18

arasi wrote:avert an am'bush' if one is in the works. That's all. Call it a moderator's reflexes

Good one, Arasi. Yes it is to avert an ambush and definitely iambush not!!

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 31 Mar 2009, 17:03

No ambush intended. My post was purely to hammer home the point that it is unfair to single out sarojaRamanujam. There are many other fans (short for fanatics), myself included, here. Our forums will be poorer without their contributions. So if someone wants to gush endlessly about their favorite artiste of the moment, please let them. In our quest to be "objective", let us not lump the encomiums with the character assasinations that happen here.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 31 Mar 2009, 20:00

Sureshvv,
I am with you. When we have bitter criticism hurled about every now and then on the forum, SR's reviews on TNS put us in a comfort zone and connect us once again with the bliss one feels on listening to good music. It is as welcome as humor in bringing back a sense of relief after reading negative posts in a row. As I said earlier, SR's devotion to TNS does not include comparisons or criticism about other performers...

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Mar 2009, 22:57

suresh: That is much clearer. Your hammer didn't hit the point on the head, it hit it at an oblique angle, so we did not feel it

Thanks.

sarojaRamanujam · Post by **sarojaRamanujam** » 02 Apr 2009, 11:23

Dear members,

As I already explained the music that I like listening to nowadays is not only entertaining and educative but also elevatiing.I find that quality in the music of TNS and my writings on it is only to share my joy in lisening to such kind of music. Divinity may be manifest to each one through different media and it is this media for me. But I understand that I cannot expect all members of this forum to agree with me as the experience of joy of one cannot be understood by another except by own experience. 'eelagani vivarimpaleni saalasvaanubhavavedhyame' Gita says 'yaa niSaa sarvabhoothaanaam thasyaam jaagarthi samyamee yasyaam jaagarthi bhoothaani saa nisaa pasyatho muneh.' Those who know me know verywell that I am writng on several topics on religion and philosophy on the internet and as such my expectations differ from others as I seem to be in a different plane altogether. I listen to the music through my heart and not my head. Any way I appreciate those who have supported me in this forum and bear no illwill towards those who crticise me. I will in future confine my writings on TNS to my blogs and groups alone mainly because I do not want to expose TNS to the criticism on account of my writings on him. So I request all to count me out and kindly leave me alone. May God bless you all.

visaalam · Post by **visaalam** » 02 Apr 2009, 13:58

About SR's posts:

They are not only full of superlatives, they also do injustice to accompanying artists as she many times omit the names of accompanying artists , leave alone how they played. I remember one such 'review' was posted by SR in rasikapriya group and some one responded "Did TNS sing alone? Note that without accompaniments, TNS' concert would have been like a Navarathri Golu paattu"

Also her "always superlative" type of "reviews" look odd for TNS who is a genius like Mali. The problem with a genius is that all concerts won't be "great" . Some will be exceptionally outstanding and some will be a disaster. It is better to accept such a pattern and say in the review that the artist was "out of form" instead of trying to glorify each and every concert as "out of the world"

I once attended a concert of TNS, whom I adore a lot. For the first 90 mins or so, it was a flop. There was no alignmenment to sruthi, the voice was not co-operating, he was assaulting S.D Sridhar with his mathematics like flogging a dead horse and I was wondering whether TNS had any personal animosity towards the hapless violonist and if so, why to bring him with him.

Fed up, I left the sabha and decided to "clean" my ears with some good TNS concerts from my archives. My friend who had come with me decided to stay and listen to the concert till the end. And he was blessed for his endurance. He (and a few others who attended ) later told that the next 1 hour of the concert , including a RTP in shanmukhaapriya was a bliss. All the drawbacks of TNS had disappeared like magic . I was cursing myself for leaving the sabha. I am told that the sabha has video recorded the concert and I am trying to get my hands on it.

This being the way this concert was delivered by TNS, the next day, I saw a "review" by SR that showered heaps and heaps of praise for TNS for his renderings from start of the concert ! A fair review should have atleast said that "TNS took some time to warm up".

As someone else pointed out, such "reviews" harm TNS than helping him. People will start suspecting every such "review" of SR. It is time TNS tells her to stop such reviews.

sarojaRamanujam · Post by **sarojaRamanujam** » 02 Apr 2009, 14:55

I have already sent a message to count me out and leave me alone. I request the moderator to delete the last comment by Visalam and assure all that they will not be offended by my reviews in this froum henceforth

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 02 Apr 2009, 16:48

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