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TM Krishna

TM Krishna is a Carnatic vocalist, the author of A Southern Music, and a writer on contemporary issues

TM Krishna at a concert
Art & Culture
Can Carnatic Music be de-Brahminised?

The caste of sound

11 April 2018
Ilayaraja (Photo: G VENKET RAM)
Cinema
Film Music: Reinvention of the Classical

Cultural power play and the changing aesthetics of film music

06 April 2016
20396
Voices
Mourning Raga

Come war or tsunami, the Chennai Music Season has never been cancelled since its inception. But by not making an exception for the city’s devastating floods, it has proved itself to be an anaesthetic bubble impervious to the world around

17 December 2015
19320
Voices
Beauty Redefined

Aesthetics is not a matter of arts alone in an age of stifling cultural battles

12 August 2015
19148
Open Essay
Baahubali: An Epic for the Right Times

What is it that makes Baahubali a film that reflects the age of Narendra Modi?

22 July 2015

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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