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Indian Classical Music Music is an universal language. Everyone in the world can relate to it. For better understanding, if we compare Music with food, Music and food are so similar, if we take rice and give it to a Japanese, he might come up with sushi, and the same rice if given to a South Indian he might come up with dosa. So the flavour and the recipe changes according to the culture, but the basic element is the same. Similarly Music and its basic elements are universal throughout the Globe but what matters is interpretation. Now about Indian music, you all might be very well aware of Bollywood and Indie-pop music but the spiritual and contemplative essence of Indian culture that India is known for is very well represented through Indian Classical Music in India, unfortunately the common man knows very little about Indian Classical Music. Basically music is divided into three parts- Swara, Taal and Nritya. Swara/Sur has its origination from the frequency of natural ...

When words fail music speaks

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A very famous Danish Author, Hans Christian Andersen once said, “Where words fail music speaks” By nature’s own will, humans have been gifted with a voice and words and there is one and only one way to express, i.e. by words. Though we may feel that kinesics is also a way to communicate, it is an acquired quality. From a tender age I wondered, what can music speak when words cannot? In search of linguistic justification for such a statement, though never intended to find any, I travelled time. Well, not with Doraemon’s time traveller but with the ticking clock to find the answer. Let me tell you, I am a person from a not so modern urban town. I grew up with parents, without a sibling but with lots and lots of ethics and life skills. As the age-old tradition of my town, I was made to indulge myself into different types of extra-curricular activities. The list started from recitation, drawing, indoor sports and it went on. At first, I always took deep inter...