Classical music must innovate and draw young listeners. Indian’s weakness for myth-making, forgetting history, making heroes of saint, politicians, plain villains! In the West, much new, innovative music created and much new style of music writing. I was reading through, for the second time, of a life of the Carnatic music legend, Tyagaraj, because a…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
How I became an entrepreneur?
Nothing in my life prepared me for an entrepreneur! No one would believe how I had changed or to use a current phrase, how I had re-invented myself! This thought ran through my mind recently as I was glancing through the pages of any old book I edited when we launched the Vadamalai Media Group….
Agriculture marketing a high priority!
Why then governments allow farmers suicides even now? There were two farmers suicides in the month of July. The two were in Karnataka. One in Tumkur district and another in Gulbarga district. The Tumkur farmers committed suicide by hanging himself in his field and the causes are the same ones known to the Prime Minister…
Teach music, celebrate music day!
Bring in music and dance into our cramming education! World Music Day was celebrated in Bangalore on June 21 all over the world. In Bangalore it was celebrated on June 18, by the Bangalore-based Alliance Francaise de Bangalore! Its director Mr.Eric Rousseau (what a famous surname!) narrated how France started this day in 1982 and…
A Unique Educator J. Krishnamurti
What exactly is his education? The life and death of Krishnamurti by Mary Lutyens, pp230, 1990 This is a beautifully written book. On a man who is Indian and an international personality, a philosopher, a self-declared iconoclast and a believer and non-believer at the same time, a guru of all gurus and yet contradicted himself…
What is news?
What the Indian Information and Broadcasting Minister must be doing? There are some exciting things happening in the India media: print and TV. There is also much contradiction in the minds of media owners as to what constitutes news for the Indian audience. Even some of the well-established English newspapers are filling up the pages…
What is the defintion of news?
News is what the commentary makes it to be! Newsheadlines almost seem to define the daily news and opinions of most people.People in India,more than the west,do belive in the printed word.Once there was in the West,the common refrain:”Dont belive the newspapers!”.Not anymore.People do believe the newspapers,their favourite newspapers and their headlines go as given…
India shining now? Or, India not shining?
Our economic policies, do seem a bit out of ideas tune with the globalising world. It is the `new economy’ sectors, IT, the outsourcing services sector are creating visible wealth and high paying employment. This government doesn’t understand modern economy’s dynamics. The prevailing economic paradigm is totally out of date, we can say with confidence….