Location: India 🇮🇳
Listen to Panchavadyam – Temple Orchestra
I did some recordings of Panchavadyam (Temple Orchestra) at Sri Sankarankulangara Temple festival (chuttu valakku) in Thrissur. Panchavadyam (Malayalam: പഞ്ചവാദ്യം), literally meaning an orchestra of five instruments, is basically a temple art form that has evolved in Kerala. Of the five instruments, four — timila, maddalam, ilathalam and idakka — belong to the...
Prayagraj Ardh Kumbh Mela, 2019
I am not religious. But rivers, mountains, roads and regular people are my favourite. Kumbh is one such event that makes some of these things possible for me.
The Tamarind Valley Collective
One of my dreams since I was a kid was to have a big fruit garden. We didn’t own much land for that to come true. So my dream remained a dream until now. Now I am part of The Tamarind Valley Collective. The idea of farming collective is to create a self-sustaining...