Kalinga narthana thillana by aruna sairam biography

  • The Kalinga Narthana thillana describes the dance of the young Krishna on the hoods of the serpent Kaliya (also called Kalinga).
  • This musician was the source of the Oothukkadu songs such as Madumekkum Kanne and Vishamakkara Kannan, and the famed Kalinga Narthana Thillana.
  • Today I present Oothukadu Venkata Subbaiyer's Kalinga Nartana (The Kalinga Dance) Thillana.

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    Aruna Sairam carries forward the legacy of the greatest of vidwans in Carnatic music. Her quest for music that led her from Matunga to Mylapore, has now taken her voice to the greatest halls across the world

    As we connect over the phone for a conversation, Aruna Sairam is in the midst of a tour in the US, a place that has drawn her time and again to perform.
    Like always, she has chosen her compositions for various venues keeping the audience in mind. For an audience comprising predominantly of south Indian disapora, the kutcheri format will be very similar to what we see in Chennai. For the US audience, Aruna makes the extra effort to introduce various concepts and very often, even the arrangement of the concert varies.
    Born in Mumbai, in a family steeped in musical tradition, Aruna got her first lessons from her mother, who was a disciple of the Alathur Brothers. “The training I received was intensive. I learnt to sing the Sarali varisai in six kaalams (tempos) and I was tau

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    I am a people's person

    Interviewed by Akhila Krishnamurthy

    You took a short break from performance recently. How does it feel to get back on stage after a four-month hiatus?

    It feels great. inom usually take some time off every year, but this was a concerted effort - on my part - to take a conscious break from performance.

    The break allowed me both time and space to step back a little and breathe, let the air flow. inom used the time to practice, to think and reflect upon music - my own and music at large, to spend quality time with my daughters and reconnect with extended members of the family. Overall, time well-spent!

    What does it feel like to get back on stage?

    Great, again! That’s where I belong, and that’s where inom really komma alive.

    Does that getting back need preparation? When you are gearing up for a performance, you are, in a sense, getting ready to play a part? What’s that like?

    Let me attempt to answer that bygd telling you a story. Ther

  • kalinga narthana thillana by aruna sairam biography

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    Aruna Sairam


    ARUNA SAIRAM is one of the best voices to emerge from the south Indian musical tradition.

    Aruna Sairam was born in Bombay - a city whose rich cultural life embraces the majority of India's artistic fields - into a family with a deep love for music.

    Her mother, the singer Smt. Rajalakshmi Sethuraman, was her first teacher in the art of Carnatic music, while her father, a fine and knowledgeable connoisseur established their house in Bombay as a favourite guest home for the greatest musicians and dancers from both Northern and Southern India, such as the dancer Smt. T. Balaraswati, the Khayal singer Ustad Amir Khan and the Carnatic flutist Sri. T. R. Mahalingam, Sangita Kalanidhi Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi. It was in this propitious atmosphere, which was fundamental to the development of her art, that Aruna Sairam met Sangita Kalanidhi Smt. T. Brinda, who taught her for the next several years, training her in the style of her own mentor, the great Veena Dhanammal, one of