music

After viewing the rangOli of SrImati lakshmIdEvi, it occurred to me that it may be nice to explain the two types of yatIs used in music - gOpucCha (like the tapering of a cow's tail) and srOtOvAha (like the broadening flow of a stream). muuttusvAmi dIkshita is quite famous for these. The song on varalakshmI has the former one (with longer words it reduces to smaller words). Here is a song of mine, if you want it to call so, that has both (ascending and descending). I will give meaning for one, except for one word change the rest follow similar pattern.

The following is a guest post, by Aarushi K:

When I was writing about songs in the poem, I forgot to mention. With paruchUri SrInivAs (stationed in Germany and a veritable walking encyclopedia on the golden age of Telugu film music), I wrote an appreciation in Telugu on yesteryear's playback singer, A M Raja, commemorating his 80th birth anniversary and 20th death anniversary. There are fourteen songs (some