For the last few seasons I stayed anchored at the Music Academy for the annual music season. This year I decided to do the sabha hopping that many rasikas experience during the season. I attended about 50 plus concerts across seven venues including the Music Academy.

The modern kutcheri takes place in a rather casual manner, seldom starting on time, with the audience and others drifting in and out all the time and few of them staying for the whole concert.

There was a spring in his step, and, though dressed in a kurta and veshti, he verily sprinted towards us.

The gentle waves on the Chinna Chokkikulam kanmoy (lake) glinted in the moonlight. Waves of music wafted from its bank. A knot of youngsters walked blithely singing aloud as they were returning home. What kind of a bhajanai group was that,…