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Anniversaries, great and small, in the season of Margazhi

The Hindu 24 Dec 2025
With the December Music Season under way, several Sabhas are marking important milestones ....
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Margazhi special: Andal and the evolution of feminine expression

The Hindu 24 Dec 2025
Performer and choreographer Anita Ratnam reflects on how Goddess Andal, her eternal guide and companion, has influenced her art and life ....
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Margazhi Notes: The pucca vadhiyams!

The Times of India 21 Dec 2025
When you scan a sabha’s performance list, your eyes naturally settle on the violinist and the mridangist. Those are the two names we instinctively check for. But here’s the question this column wants to ask ... Yet they do not always find a place on stage.
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Mayakkum Margazhi: We do enjoy our ice creams. We're human too, says Vignesh Ishwar

The Times of India 19 Dec 2025
December turns the city into a map of sabhas, but Vignesh Ishwar, a Carnatic vocalist with a steady and respected presence in the Margazhi circuit, enters the season looking inward rather than outward.
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Beachville Café hosts Carnatic concert series this Margazhi

The Hindu 17 Dec 2025
As Margazhi fills Chennai’s sabhas, a parallel Carnatic concert series unfolds inside a café in Alwarpet, where proximity, timing, and format reshape how the music is experienced ....
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Mayakum Margazhi: Margazhi gets inclusive with a sign-language choir!

The Times of India 17 Dec 2025
This Margazhi season, for the first time in Chennai, more than 200 able, disabled and deaf children, along with the entire audience, performed together as an inclusive sign-language choir ... “Usually, only mainstream students do Margazhi kutcheris .
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Margazhi Music Season 2025: A Guide to the best sabha canteens in Chennai

The Hindu 16 Dec 2025
From wedding-style ela sappadu to expansive dosa ...
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Margazhi music fest to begin in Trichy on Dec 19

The Times of India 16 Dec 2025
Organisers said the festival aims to encourage a Margazhi music culture in Trichy, on the lines of Chennai's Margazhi season, while providing a platform for young artistes alongside established performers.
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Margazhi music season: How Chennai’s Carnatic stars are preparing

The Hindu 11 Dec 2025
As Margazhi arrives, Chennai’s leading musicians reveal how they ready themselves - from meditation to reviving timeless kritis ....
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AI and the evolving landscape of Chennai’s Margazhi Season

The Hindu 10 Dec 2025
Classical musicians must move past skepticism when it comes to AI. It cannot replace human mastery, but can be a modern instrument for practice, planning and cultural propagation ....
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Mayakkum Margazhi: The ‘sabhas’h behind Margazhi!

The Times of India 06 Dec 2025
Margazhi may look effortless on stage, but behind it, for sabhas, it is a year-long grind of scheduling, funding, selection committees, technical prep and a constant push to bring in younger rasikas .
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