Mridangam exponent Guruvayur Dorai, who has been honoured with Padma Shri is one of the senior-most Mridangam artists in the country. Born in 1935 at Guruvayur to G.S. Krishna Iyer and Meenakshi ...

Popular mridangam player Balasubrahmanyam, fondly known as ‘Bali’, passed away on Thursday, January 2, at the age of 80. The Karnataka Film Musicians Association (KFMA) expressed heartfelt ...

Bhaktavatsalam described the mridangam as a percussion instrument crafted from seasoned jackwood, coconut wood or ‘Kodukka kattai’, with cow, goat or buffalo skin used for the ‘valantharai ...