Both husband and wife hum as they move around their home, but the tunes are mostly light and breezy. The couple is dressed in casuals, and not in the traditional way. At one glance, Sriram Parasuram and Anoorada Sriram defy your concept of the archetypal Indian classical musicians.
The study in their Chennai house has more than a couple of shelves. Again, it is not just music CDs and cassettes, but books — and, most of them, fiction. Including, children’s stuff. Well, primarily a Carnatic vocalist-violinist, Sriram has not just been composing and producing musical albums, but is also closely associated with literature: he works with Karadi Tales, a publishing house based in the city.
Sriram guided Anoorada, a gold medalist from Madras University, more than a decade ago when she was pursuing Ethnomusicology in Wesleyan University while they were both doing advance studies in Connecticut of northeastern United States. That rendezvous led the couple to begin a jugalbandi in life that is proving to be a wonderful marriage of ideas and interests with a shared passion for all things musical.
Full report here New Indian Express
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