How Papanasam Sivan shaped the musical landscape of Mylapore
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How Papanasam Sivan shaped the musical landscape of Mylapore

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From the streets of Tiruvaiyaru’s Saptastanam to that of Madras’ Mylapore, the early dawn processions during the Tamil month of Margazhi were led by Papanasam Sivan, the only name that comes to mind when you think of Dhanur maasam bhajanai. “He chose his Mudra or signature to be ‘Ramadasa’ — a throwback to his given name of Ramayya and as a tribute to his father Ramamrutham Iyer,” recalls his grandson Papanasam Ashok Ramani. Once, singer Ramnad Krishnan visited Sivan’s residence and listened to him sing Tyagaraja’s ‘Ninnu vina’ in the raga Navarasa Kanada, and was mesmerised. Krishnan attended the procession and requested Sivan to sing ‘Ninnu Vina’, but he spontaneously burst into a song he composed then — ‘Naan oru vilaiyaatu bommaiyaa’ in Navarasa Kanada on the goddess of Mylapore. Sivan’s composition in raga Surutti ‘Pitchaiku vandiro’, which he sung during the Panguni festival, is an ode to the wedding of the Lord and Karpagambal.

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