![]() ![]() These very songs were part of a programme organised on December 11 at SPACES, Chennai, as a tribute to the mahakavi (great poet), by Rajan and her ensemble of students. The magnificent t amizh (language) leapt out at me and I tried to chisel out the perfect tune to match the lyrics,” she reminisces. When she was a student in college, her professors asked her to tune Bharatiar’s powerful poetry to song. It’s fair to say she was born musical – she could distinguish the pitch emanating from a uniformly noisy electricity board meter of her home as a child. ![]() One such fan is renowned Chennai-based Carnatic musician Seetha Rajan, a disciple of Kittamani Iyer and Semmangudi Sreenivasa Iyer. To his readers, he bequeathed his dynamism, eye for beauty and left clear instructions on what was worth yearning for. Fans of poet Subramania Bharati (December 11, 1882–September 11, 1921) secretly feel they own a bit of the poet when they rattle off his verses from memory. ![]()
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