Friday, April 27, 2007

Carnatic Conundrum

In which Ludwig starts giving voice to unspeakable Friday morning thoughts

If 'Mandolin' Srinivas played the mandolin, 'Flute' Mali the flute, 'Ghatam' Suresh the ghatam, 'Chitraveena' Ravikiran the chitraveeNa, 'Guitar' Prasanna the guitar, and 'Fiddle' Subbaiyer the fiddle (heh!), what, pray, did 'Tiger' Varadachari play?

8 comments:

The Black Mamba said...

one wild bunch, no?

while we are on the topic, will someone also clarify what 'Poochi' Ramanad Srinivasa Iyengar played?

[dbvlhaa] : tsk, so simple, alt. spelling for dabbawala.

Ludwig said...

[bm] heh! there's a guy called 'Poochi' R.S.Iyengar? too funny.

Samanth Subramanian / Baradwaj Rangan said...

Also one called Brazil Subramaniam. Go figure.

Ludwig said...

[samanth] 'Brazil' Subramaniam? As in, he did 'Brazil'? Forgive me, for I know not what I do...

Anonymous said...

>"as in, he did 'brazil'?"
so now should we call you crudewig?

(hastily straightens hairpiece)

qvifgd: the IATA number on my Qatar airways tickets

Ludwig said...

[ycl..ych] is it really you? or is it the ghost of Hamlet's father? hark, yon spirit with steely glint in eye...

Mukund Iyer R. said...

There are tons of people with interesting names quite like the instrument names you brought out?

"Fatafat" Jayalakshmi - telugu actress

Calcutta Krishnamurthy - Vocalist from Calcutta

Delhi Ganesh - Actor/comedian

Nizhalgal Ravi - Ravi who acted in movie Nizhalgal

Sowcar Janaki - Janaki who acted in movie Sowcar

In Pune I've seen names like
Gujarathi
Dadarkar
Gwaliorkar

keep it going pal

Australopithecus said...

one doubt...is Tiger Varadachari related to puli raja?