Nice tribute. Thank you for the audio-clips from sound-cloud. Nice and rare selection of songs.
You should have avoided the dirty slandering calumny by George. Most people do not know that young MS fell in love with Sadasivam in 1936 itself ( She was just 20 then, the yera in which she took the Carnatic music lovers by storm by her performance in Kumbakonam Mahamaham festival. Due to tremendous public demand, she was given an unprecedented second occasion concert in that festivval. The phrase ‘much-married’ referring to Sadasivam is just silly. It was a phrase used by Jawahar to describe Henry-VIII. ( father of Queen Elizabeth-1600),
Sadasivam was a staubnch Congress party worker and a disciple of fire-brand Subramanya SIVA.
When Vasan of Ananda Vikatan sent Sdasivam to interview MS, he was just a talented advt manager in the magazine. He was in no way a rich man. Actually, ‘lower middle class’. He was in charge of KHADI sales stall in the exhibition. and very aristocratic in values and looks. He was very much a family man with tremendous responsibilyies. especially his sister’s son ( eventually Kalki Anandi;s husband) and sister’s daughter. How little we know of their mutual bond between MS and TS! The book by TJS George must be banned .
Actually most of what is written in this article is part of TJSGeorge’s book… it used to be called “MS a life in Music”…
I felt the book is well written… in fact though the writer does not sound ( going by his name and profession) like an aficionado of a form/at of music as steeped in bhakti as karnatic Music, I liked the way he has used lines from Tyagaraja’s poetry in chapter titles and their translations… which in my opinion are very very well done.
That said I agree wrt the GNB spin… especially since both the eminent people and the equally great sh.Sadashivam were not around to say anything at all… of course if MS were alive no one would have dared to say any such thing… and even if they did… it would have been their word against a fragile helpless lady… very sad that a great piece of biography was turned into a troll bcz of a few pages of gossip…
But I still turn to the book to read a few lines and remember a day in 1972 when my grandmother rushed us in an autoricksha to a housewarming ceremony where we saw and heard the great lady and got theertha from the Kanchi mutt head Sri Jayendra Saraswathy…
Somewhere in north bengaluru of those days…
Sad, if it for or against a particular leader of political parties in power or opposition, comments would have floded in this section.
The husband & wife were like shiva& Parvati with a divine look.
The nation and especially Tamil Nadu has failed miserably to honour this couple posthumously.
Nice tribute. Thank you for the audio-clips from sound-cloud. Nice and rare selection of songs.
You should have avoided the dirty slandering calumny by George. Most people do not know that young MS fell in love with Sadasivam in 1936 itself ( She was just 20 then, the yera in which she took the Carnatic music lovers by storm by her performance in Kumbakonam Mahamaham festival. Due to tremendous public demand, she was given an unprecedented second occasion concert in that festivval. The phrase ‘much-married’ referring to Sadasivam is just silly. It was a phrase used by Jawahar to describe Henry-VIII. ( father of Queen Elizabeth-1600),
Sadasivam was a staubnch Congress party worker and a disciple of fire-brand Subramanya SIVA.
When Vasan of Ananda Vikatan sent Sdasivam to interview MS, he was just a talented advt manager in the magazine. He was in no way a rich man. Actually, ‘lower middle class’. He was in charge of KHADI sales stall in the exhibition. and very aristocratic in values and looks. He was very much a family man with tremendous responsibilyies. especially his sister’s son ( eventually Kalki Anandi;s husband) and sister’s daughter. How little we know of their mutual bond between MS and TS! The book by TJS George must be banned .
Actually most of what is written in this article is part of TJSGeorge’s book… it used to be called “MS a life in Music”…
I felt the book is well written… in fact though the writer does not sound ( going by his name and profession) like an aficionado of a form/at of music as steeped in bhakti as karnatic Music, I liked the way he has used lines from Tyagaraja’s poetry in chapter titles and their translations… which in my opinion are very very well done.
That said I agree wrt the GNB spin… especially since both the eminent people and the equally great sh.Sadashivam were not around to say anything at all… of course if MS were alive no one would have dared to say any such thing… and even if they did… it would have been their word against a fragile helpless lady… very sad that a great piece of biography was turned into a troll bcz of a few pages of gossip…
But I still turn to the book to read a few lines and remember a day in 1972 when my grandmother rushed us in an autoricksha to a housewarming ceremony where we saw and heard the great lady and got theertha from the Kanchi mutt head Sri Jayendra Saraswathy…
Somewhere in north bengaluru of those days…
Sad, if it for or against a particular leader of political parties in power or opposition, comments would have floded in this section.
It is said that she was taught the bhajans of Mirabai by Dilip kr.Roy, son of Dwijendralal Roy.
The husband & wife were like shiva& Parvati with a divine look.
The nation and especially Tamil Nadu has failed miserably to honour this couple posthumously.