Kumbakonam times contd.....

Atlast i found out what was the problem and why my blog didnt accept any photos. I use Opera instead of IE and that caused the trouble, instead of manually scanning the fotos myself i ordered a foto cd from the lab, i believed in their professionalism but they let me down, they ve scanned the photos with the lowest resolution possible. Some are gud some are bad, anyways i ll scan them manually and post it here, the 1st photo i wanted to post is the samadhi of the great Sri Thyagaraja Swamigal.
When i went to this place the famous Thyagaraja Aaradhanai was taking place. I found many maamis sitting near the samadhi and performing some classical vocals. After they completed i went to one of them to ask "Why is this person worshipped while there are many others who can sing?". She replied me with a "R u a Gnana Sooniyam?" look :). She didnt answer my question directly, instead she told me to get a book about Thyagaraja swamigal's life history that costs around Rs.3.00 from a nearby shop. I did it, the book was around 20 pages or so and i completed it in 20 minutes, then she came back to me and said "Ippo puriyardha", i understood. This person has composed around 24000 keerthanais in Carnatic music in his short life span of 60 years. There is no similarity between each other it seems. I find many ppl learning Carnatic music who boast too much on singing one keerthanai. Inspite of lucrative offers from Kings and Landlords Thyaga Brahmam only sang about God(Sri Ramachandramoorthy). How great it is. He lived from 1767 - 1837 according to that book. Visit this link for more info. The lady who told me about the book was very much enthusiastic and told me that she visits the place every year for the past 15 years and there are many ardent carnatic singers like her who spend the entire week in Thiruvaiyaru. She showed me an itenary in which i cud see some big name like Unni Krishnan, Sowmya, Yesudas etc. She told me that each of these persons will be given a max of 20 minutes to perform on the stage except for Yesudas who sung 7 kritis of Sri Thyaga Brahmam non stop for more than an hour. That is a separate world. While speaking about Yesudas i remembered a saying "Music has no language and religious barriers" and Yesudas is a living example for justifying these words. Myself and my cousins looked at some locations there and told "Dei idhu Anniyan padathula varume " etc. I was ashamed of myself that i had to know such places thru' movies instead of knowing the true prodigiousness. When i listen to Sankarabharanam i used to believe that the songs like "Maanasa sanchara re..." ,"Dorakuna etuvanti seva..." etc. have been composed by K.V.Mahadevan but last week i came to know that they ve been composed by Sri Thyaga Brahmam himself, i cud do nothing but laugh at my ignorance :).If i had known Carnatic music i wud have appreciated these things better than what am doing now......