Semmangudi, Carnatic music doyen, dead

Renowned Carnatic musician Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer died at his residence in Chennai on Friday morning.Born on July 25, 1908, at Semmangudi village in Thanjavur district, Srinivasa Iyer started......

Was Bombay Jayashri's Life of Pi song inspired?

There are remarkable similarities between Bombay Jayashri's Oscar-nominated song in Life of Pi and Irayimman Thampi's age-old composition. We make a case for the 200-year-old melody.Almost every......