Union minister H N Ananth Kumar who is into his 6th term as a member of parliament from Bangalore South inaugurated the 80th edition of the Sri Ramanavami Music festival of Sree Ramaseva Mandali under the Big Top at Old Fort School ground in Chamarajpet on Sunday evening - March 25.
Bangalore M. Lakshman and his co-artistes had spent over an hour on stage from 4 p.m., playing the nadaswaram to an empty pandal - this is a shame and must be galling for a set of senior artistes and that too in what is now promoted as a global music fest.
In fact, the inauguration this Sunday limped on - the guests for the inauguration arrived 30 minutes after the nadaswaram concert had been wound up. It appeared as if the nadaswaram is still ticked in to superficially honour a tradition.
There is no reason why a snappy nadaswaram concert curated as part of the launch cannot be held - with the chief guests also listening to it - thus ensuring that a sizable number of rasikas attend.
In contrast, a mandali at Seshadripuram hosted a nadaswaram concert as the main one after its formal inauguration the same evening and had over 300 people attending it.
Back to Chamarajpet - alongside minister Ananth Kumar on stage was Sudha Murthy, head of Infosys Foundation.
A special postage 'MyStamp' was released to mark the 80th edition of the festival of this mandali. 2018 also marks the 50th year of this festival being held at Old Fort School grounds.
The first concert was by violinists Ganesh and Kumaresh - they got a full house.
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