Margazhi Musings_Episode 3-Adherant audiance

Music season is full of enthusiasm and joy. It is a hectic time for musicians to hop from sabha to another for tight schedule of concerts. Rasikas oscillate between sabhas too! While one of the kind enter main hall while the other kind would jump  for meals(canteen).

If you would visit a canteen during weekdays, the probability of you bumping an IT professional is quite high. If you would end up in weekends, you will be able to meet all dolled up rasikas showing off their new saree.If you have a habit of seeing one's attire first and then the face,you might probabily then realize the face to be quite familiar. It will then occur  after couple of minutes to you that he/she was the one sitting on the dais yesterday  who tried best to not let you sleep in the afternoon katcheri after a heavy meal. Sometimes rasikas doll up more than the artists that people would be misguided. Once it so occurred that a old thatha  went on to wish a rasika( who was dressed to nines )about how wonderfully they performed the last concert.

Couple of NRIs would trespass you ,giving you concert updates in an"unfortunately born in India" tone. This happens to inspire old lads in the concert to speak in British English so much that mridangist had to play mridangam so hard to stop them. Everyone irrespective of whether it is a rasika or an artist loves singing in sabhas particularly during season.After an inspirational thodi by an artist inside the  hall,a great desire to sing thodi descended upon a rasika too that he started singing aalapana in the canteen. This left all the others to scream in astonishment. A small kid ( probably 5 years) who was creating tantrum until than stopped immediately looked that old rasika in amazement (may be this was the first encounter of the kid, realizing how loud a person can cry more than him). The sudden unfamiliar outburst of sound made the server go off beat that he would have almost  spilled the coffee on someone's head which he was carrying. It took almost few seconds for people to recover to normality. The old thatha( who was singing), resumed sipping his coffee as though nothing happened.

Music season not just gives you a chance to listen to artists,it gives the chance for you to listen rasika's  inspired singings too. Margzhi season is truly a wonderful moment to enjoy!!
 

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