Legendary mridangam exponent Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, who has completed 75 years of his musical career, has authored the book, Musical Excellence of Mridangam, jointly with eminent scientists T.

Chennai: Taking a cue from Nobel laureate C. V. Raman who did an in-depth study into the harmonics of mridangam and published papers in 1920, eminent percussionist Dr Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and ...

Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman was yet to be born when C.V. Raman’s famed theory on light won the Nobel Prize in 1930. A decade earlier, the music-inclined scientist had begun researching mridangam ...

Time is that unfathomable concept, a force and a mystery, present in movement and in stillness, that rules the mortal world unseen. Like nature, it has its contrasting faces. Among the beautiful ones ...

There is a story in Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History of Mridangam Makers, Carnatic singer TM Krishna’s latest work on the caste inequities between the Dalit mridangam maker and the Brahmin player, ...

TWO talented mridangam players, with a combined 30 years of rigorous training, will proudly showcase their artistry in their back-to-back graduation performances at the weekend. This milestone marks ...