Posted on: 09-06-06 18:05:08
Trichy Sankaran is one of leading maestro of Mridangam a musical instrument in Carnatic Music. He is a professor at the York University in the Department of Indian Music. He is one of the best in the world and he is a resident of Canada for more than 3 Decades.
He is like the Ravi Shankar for Sitar or Bhimsen Joshi for vocal or even Allah Rakha for Tabla.
More could be learnt about him in the following links:
http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/faculty/profs/sankaran.htm
http://www.yorku.ca/grdmusic/profs/sankaran.htm
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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....
"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"
