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A S Ajith Kumar K J Yesudas was already there as an integral part of the world I was born into. While slowly and un-steadily making sense of the world around I discovered that there is a man living in our singing box, the radio, singing non-stop for us. Over the years I have liked and disliked many of [...]
A S Ajith Kumar
The popularity of the Airtel ringtone brought a new `audience’ to the Indian music scene. Airtel claimed that in 2009, Airtel users completed over 200 million music downloads. Wall Street Journal reported that it is “mobile, not net that drives Indian Music Sales. Sales of ringtones and songs on phones already make [...]
A S Ajith Kumar  Tags: community, Music, reality show, sms |  - (Comments closed) |
Amidst all the opulence and glitter caste has always been there in most of the reality shows in Malayalam television channels. It was always-already present, difficult to render invisible. But, till the grand finale of the Star Singer show’s season four in Asianet, it hadn’t showed up in such proportions [...]
A S Ajith Kumar
What does one expect from a dalit autobiographical narration? Is it the misery and suffering that make our writings enjoyable? These questions have been coming up when I consider the responses to my posts in fish pond.
When I started writing “jukebox diaries” the intention has been to [...]
Padmakumar  Tags: caste, chembai, memoir, Music |  - (Comments closed) |
This photograph in Matrubhumi Daily evokes the experiences related to caste and music gurus narrated by renowned vocalist siblings Jayan and Vijayan, in the memoirs about their guru Chembai Vaidyanatha Bagavathar. (JayaVijaya, Chembai:Sangeethavum Jeevitavum, Kottayam, D C Books, 1981, pp 80-85)
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fish·pond (fĭsh’pŏnd’)
–noun
a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes.
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