Author: Prabhu Venkatachalam

Prabhu Venkatachalam is a doctoral candidate in the Finance & Accounting Area at IIM Bangalore. He is passionate about Indian classical music and dabbles in Carnatic percussion. He also teaches Sanskrit and speaks on topics in Indian Philosophy in his free time. He can be reached at prabhu.venkatachalam15@iimb.ac.in

For twelve hours of divine music and dance, years of patient labour Doctoral scholar Prabhu Venkatachalam, key organizer of ‘Yamini 2019’, takes us behind the scenes to tell us what it takes to bring Indian classical artistes of world renown to a dusk-to-dawn concert, under the stars at IIMB, year after year

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28 January, 2019: It was an unusually cold Republic Day morning in 2013. At 3:00 am, a Dhrupad concert was in progress, and some of my friends and I settled in eagerly awaiting Bombay Jayashree who had just then been nominated for the Oscars for her rendition in the movie – Life of Pi. Her concert was short due to the severity of the weather, but there was something about the experience that morning which left a profound impression. The initial push to attend Yamini was an opportunity to visit…

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