Sairam was a married 35-year-old and a mother of two then. What the hell was I doing with it all,’ I thought to myself.” ‘My parents and my masters had given me so much. The whole experience held a mirror to my own musical legacy. Thanks to my upbringing, I had an intimate understanding of the works of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, but to my surprise, I found the musicians there rather insular and lacking in curiosity. “By some stroke of providence, I was chosen as a visiting professor in a conservatory. That’s when I knew music was my path,” Sairam says. The journey has been long and far from conventional. She has also, through highly selective collaborations, taken her art global without any loss in meaning or melody. Apart from her classical Carnatic core, she has managed to embrace various other genres of music, including the Marathiīhajan. This year’s award not only thrusts the Academy into refreshing territory, it is a thumping validation of Sairam’s prodigious musical spectrum. It is an interesting and revealing choice by the century-old Music Academy, which has often been criticised for its parochialism. Padma Shri Aruna Sairam has been selected for the Sangita Kalanidhi award, the highest recognition in Carnatic music, this year. She is gracious, and endearingly amenable. The lensman loves it and begins to click away. “I picked something a little more contemporary. After the photographer arrives, she glides back in, resplendent in a blue saree. She inquires after a common acquaintance, requests a little time to prepare for the photo session, offers coffee, and disappears for a bit. She is polite, and an easy conversationalist. Sairam calls out a greeting in her unmistakable tenor. The décor is tasteful, traditional elegance. Step in and a framed four-ft line-art painting of Krishna greets you in the drawing room. There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.Mantralayam, Aruna Sairam’s residence, looks like a cheerfully resolute chunk of butter in the Chennai heat. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Make others want to pattern themselves after you: that is a well-deserved compliment, and indicates adherence to Kabalarian ethics of right thinking. Avoid showiness in dress and loudness in speech. Be conservative, yet creative, in your dress. Develop clean and tidy habits, body cleanliness, and a clean mind. Create a refined and individual personality, a happy and generous one. The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written.It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.Īlways seek for an ideal, an objective, and the proper method of application. Health weaknesses could also affect the eyes, ears, sinuses, or result in loss of hair.
Your lack of patience and consistency in your affairs and your tendency to act impulsively can lead to actions you later regret taking, or to accidents, particularly to the head.Though you have limitless enthusiasm for new ventures, you lose interest quickly once things become routine, as you dislike being forced to attend to detail and do monotonous work.You have strong likes and dislikes and tend to respond to your hunches about people, depending on whether they have made a good or not-so-good first impression on you sometimes you are correct in your assessment other times, your hunches may be coloured by your personal feelings and thus may not be accurate.You are very creative and promotional, and work intensely to carry out your plans.Reacting against injustice, you go out of your way to assist in creating fairness.You enjoy change, travel, and new experiences.The name of Aruna makes you dynamic, restless, independent, ready to accept challenges, and outspoken.
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