ಕ್ಷಣಪ್ರಭಾ - Kshanaprabhaa

Some photos from the morning Tennis action with colleague Ravi Kumar Yadav. Or, should I say, an attempt at playing Tennis? Enjoying it quite a bit. Also, thanks to the gifted Tennis balls from former colleague Madhura...

Two amazingly contrasting trips to Sinhagad Fort in Pune within a year, and I can't help but compare the two. Probably the only two common factors in both the trips were:  a. Presence of Aniruddha b. The place where we had our afternoon lunch, the hut which sold the very filling Pitla Bhakri. Last July, on my first ever visit to Pune, former colleagues Ruju and Aniruddha had accompanied me to this picturesque and historical fort, and amid incessant rains, we had taken a bus ride from Swargate Bus Station at Pune to the foothill of Sinhagad. From there, a jeep ride ensured that we were at the entrance to the fort and we did quite a lot of exploration on the hilltop, exploring the unimaginably fresh greenery and breathing in some of the most refreshingly clean air you can ever come across. It was greenery all around. We could not see soil anywhere. All the hills all around were covered in green and soaked in mist. Sometimes w...

A simple, beautiful and haunting raga, Ratipatipriya has caught my attention for a long time now, and here is an attempt to group together some renditions in this raga. 1. Legend M. S. Subbulakshmi singing Katrinile Varum Geetham , in the movie Meera in 1945 , where she has even acted in the tile role of Meera. This song also has shades of Sindhu Bhairavi, but is primarily Ratipatipriya: 2. Rajesh Vaidhya on his Veena, with a dramatic fusion of Ratipatipriya: 3. Possibly the most well known kriti in this raga, Jagajjanani Shukapani Kalyani , by Ghanam Krishna Iyer , rendered by C. S. Sanjeev here: 4. Dr. Rukmini and Ramani singing Srinivasa Govinda in the same raga, a Papanasam Sivan creation: 5. Another legendary Carnatic singer and Tamil actor , M. K. Tyagaraja Bhagavathar singing a song in Ratipatipriya in the 1942 movie Sivakavi :