Wednesday, September 2, 2009

CQ 50

Identify this piece and its raga.


Sunday, August 30, 2009

CQ 49

Quick Carnatic Crossword - 3



















Across:

7. Fourth chakra (4)
8. Manohara, if you can adjust , you can go up easily (8)
9. She is born to dharmavathi, but follows kamala, abhaya, meena et al (6)
10. A thevaram sung without oriental help completes a cycle (8)
11. Dikshitar's famous surati is about him (8)
13. Koluvai _________ (6)
16. & 15. Hana the purist, without a point sounds dissonant (9)
17. Tansen is often referred to as (4)
18. One type of nadaswaram (6)
19. Arre oh sambha, vigilantly listen to this janyam of sucharitra (8)
21. Auspicious (8)
24. Maintain a gamaka without nishadam (6)
25. GKB and MMD made him immortal (8)
26. Hindustani practice (4)

Down:

1. To listen to this doyen, mess with magudi 'n' lose direction (10)
2. Marry Mary? No, not until i hear raja's saramathi (4,4)
3. KB's favourite raga but 'this veena does not know' how to play it (6)
4. & 6.Basic elements of indian music (4,4)
5. A koundar somehow sang kalyani at the end of shankarabharanam in lieu of bilahari (8)
12. Say Madhyama differently , upside down, to meet this composer (5)
14. A divine note (10)
16. Keep dancing hana till you come to form (8)
17. Ghanam krishna iyer's atana is as sublime as this great mountain (8)
20. Chandram bhaja _______ (6)
22. One of the chakras is inverted (4)
23. KL saigal's classic bhairavi, Babul ____ (4)

Friday, July 31, 2009

CQ 48

Identify the ragas involved in this song.