Annual tribute to saint composer

Puranadara Dasa (1484 – 1564) is perhaps the one personage that deserves the most homage from the practitioners and lovers of Carnatik music. Aptly called the Pitamaha of Carnatik music, it was he that set the method to teach music, unified the tala system and composed thousands of what are called, Devaranamas in the Kannada language. He prevails wherever in the world Carnatik Music prevails today.

Some 550 years after his birth, people still gather to pay homage to him every year.

Sydney does not lag behind. The Purandara Dasa Aradhana Committee here has been organising an annual tribute for ten years. The tenth anniversary was celebrated in glory on March 6 and 7 at the Bahai Centre. The highlight of the event was that two leading performing artistes - Nagamani