• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / 2011 Reported by Mridula Anand In early December 2011, there was a unique one week workshop in Hyderabad by the famed singer Vani Jairam. Vani Jairam spoke briefly about her prior training in Hindustani music by Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan of Patiala gharana where she assimilated the intricacies of the thumri, bhajan and ghazal singing..
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / 2008 Contributed by Mythily Ramachandran Well known gurus have been employed to help train youngsters to prepare for an annual music festival in the USA. The classes are held in and web cast from Adyar in Chennai, India. .
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / 2008 C R R Varma is an indefatigable PR person. And he gets hyper when it comes to the unique Swathi Sangeethotsavam..
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / JULY 2001 Under a thatched roof in a cool yard of a Raja Annamalaipuram premises in Madras, a 72-year-old man is lying down on a wire-mesh cot, in the 'Shav-asana' (dead man's pose). He is lying flat on his back, with arms on the sides and legs stretched and apart, and his eyes closed.