From last week’s look at Telugu playback music, we come back this week to Classical Carnatic Music, and the great Andhra Personality and Telugu Saint: Sri Narayana Teertha.
A gem of a composer and spiritual figure, he is oft-forgotten …
Tag Archives: High Culture
What is Needed for a Cultural Revival?
With a sense of gratitude we note that our recent post on the Cultural Resonance of Baahubali made something of a splash on social media. A number of long-time readers, as well as recent twitter followers responded very positively. While …
Guru Poornima: My Gurus in Life
Dharmic Development II
In the wake of the current and expanding global financial crisis (we mean 2015, not 2008–so hard to keep track these days…), an opportunity to revisit our Series on Dharma & Economics : Dharmic Development, has presented itself. And …
Personalities: Mallinatha
Classical Indic Literature II: Poetics
Continuing our Series on Classical Indic Literature is Part II: Poetics. Long time readers may recall our previous post on Literary Theory. This piece will very briefly recap some of the related concepts before quickly moving on to …
Sanskrit & Sanskruti Part III – How the Language contributed to Culture
Continuing my series on Sanskrit, is Part III. Here, I will evaluate how the language impacted global culture, especially in Asia, and then focus on our own Civilizational culture, specifically, one of its greatest gems.
The term “Sanskrit” was …
