Going by the literal meaning, mridangam is a music instrument played softly. However, performers of this quintessential south Indian percussion instrument that accompanies Carnatic music and various ...

A video of a Motor Vehicle Inspector in uniform playing the mridangam during a roadside inspection at Mallappally, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, is now taking social media by storm. The video features Ajith ...

Chennai: Percussion instruments come in various shape and sizes. The rhythmic sophistication of Carnatic classical music has for long depended on the mridangam to guide the tempo. The double barreled ...

It was not expected of a young boy growing up in a small town in America to pick up an instrument like the Mridangam to play but then that was what Rohan Krishnamurthy did when he was an 8 year old.

Hogging the limelight has not been his cup of tea. Even when mridangamist Kuzhalmannam G Ramakrishnan owns two coveted Guinness World Records, he longs to hear the name of the art louder than his name ...

Mridangam artiste Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan, who recently got a certified design patent for his innovation sadmridangam, talks about what made him put together such a lighter version of the age-old ...

Show produced by granddaughter featuring anecdotes and performances by contemporaries will chronicle the four stages of Palghat Mani Iyer’s life Renowned Carnatic singer Nithyasree Mahadevan, also the ...

Upcoming Mridangam artiste from Kerala, Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan has set a new Guinness World record in the category of 'longest hand drum marathon' by playing +Mridangam+ continuously for 101 hours ...

TM Krishna performs at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, in association with Victoria Memorial Hall and The Telegraph, on Friday evening The Telegraph picture T.M. Krishna problematises everything ...

The occasional pair of shoulders could be seen swaying among the hundreds gathered in the audience, as heads nodded and feet tapped to the rhythm of percussion and vocals of the Indian classical art ...

PALAKKAD: Mridangam maestro Palghat Raghu, 81, passed away at a private hospital at Mylapore in Chennai on Tuesday morning. He was born on January 9, 1928 in Rangoon, Burma, to R Ramaswamy Iyer who ...