The Carnatic musician TM Krishna was scheduled to perform a concert in Delhi on 17 November, organised by the Airport Authority of India and the non-profit SPIC MACAY. Download software fsx orbx - ftx eu scotland map. However, after being incessantly trolled on social media, the AAI decided to cancel the event.
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The trolls were incensed that Krishna had announced earlier that he would perform Christian Carnatic hymns. The grouse, as one anonymous Twitter handle put it, was “Carnatic music is identified only with Hindu religion and you have no rights to change it.”Several musicians faced similar attacks earlier this year. On 25 August, the renowned Carnatic singer OS Arun was to perform at a concert called Yesuvin Sangama Sangeetham, or a Confluence of Jesus’ Music. When he shared the poster on social media, he was subjected to a storm of abuse and accused of being a stooge of the Vatican, out to lure Hindus into the Christian fold. He cancelled the event shortly after.
Ramanathan Seetharaman, the leader of a Coimbatore-based organisation called the Rashtriya Sanathan Seva Sangh—which says on its Facebook page that it seeks “the welfare of all Brahmins in the world”—threatened artists with violence if similar concerts are organised in the future. A number of venues in the United States cancelled scheduled performances by Arun and a temple in the US cancelled a concert by Krishna.The recent attack on Krishna is part of a concerted attack on Carnatic musicians who have sung devotional songs for non-Hindu gods. Right-wing Hindu organisations have called such musicians “traitors of Hinduism” and “shamers of Carnatic music.” Though these groups may have just woken up to the existence of the genre, it in fact constitutes an important chapter in the history of Carnatic music.
Image copyright COURTESY: OSARUN.COM Image captionOS Arun cancelled a performance at a Christian musical event after objections by upper-caste HindusThe matter snowballed when Ramanathan Seetharaman, founder of a hitherto unknown fringe Hindu group, the Rashtriya Sanathana Sewa Sangam, with a following of about 18,000 high-caste Brahmins in the city of Coimbatore, phoned Arun and allegedly threatened to stop him performing.' The vicious attacks and trolling has left me shattered,' Arun told the BBC.'
That they recorded the phone conversation and uploaded it on YouTube and WhatsApp has made me lose faith in my community,' he said.He said he had often performed music of 'other faiths' owing to his belief in the 'encompassing and universal nature of music'.Following the fracas, his Carnatic music tour in the US was cancelled by the organisers.' I have sung songs on Dalit icon Ambedkar's birthday on televised programmes for Dalit solidarity; Sufi music and alongside choir groups.
This is ridiculous to emotionally pressurise us from singing,' he said. Image copyright First Edition Arts Image captionIndia's southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) is witnessing a musical revolution of sortsSocial media posts have also revealed that groups of Carnatic patrons have written to major concert halls in Chennai pressurising them to boycott Carnatic singers who 'plagiarise songs' (lyrics in praise of Christ set to Carnatic songs) or sing at Christian religious events. Taking on the trollsWhile the attacks on social media have been relentless, some artists are not cowering.Krishna has challenged 'right-wing extremism', saying he will resist 'bullying' by uploading a song in Carnatic genre in praise of Christ and Allah on YouTube.