Monday, April 28, 2025

Ilaiyaraaja

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Gnanathesigan > Rajaiya/Raasayya > Raja > Ilaiyaraja

Flute was one of the initial instrument - self made

Music Troupe 

Cumbam Temple Festival

Harmonium Rs. 60 from Maker Ponniah Asari Coimbatore

At around the age of 12-13, initial experience on stage

Kombai - 8th grade

Thevaram is District Board High School (did not go). Rs. 25 school fees

Vaigai dam uncle working as scrap driver. Garden Watering person

Join school next year

1957 re-elction

Trichy - brother sick

Bath in Cauvery & Rock Fort

Jawaharlal Nehru died while Ilayaraja was in Tanjaoor


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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Briyani types

Ambur, Dindigul, Chettinad, Chennai Muslim (Bhai Kadai), Kongu, Wallajah style, Rawther, Vaniyambadi


  1. Pakki biryani - the meat and rice are cooked separately and then layered together
  2. Kachchi biryani - meat and rice are cooked together in a single utensil
  3. Lucknowi biryani - less on spices Kolkata biryani - adds potatoes to it
  4. Hyderabadi biryani - more heavily spiced than Lucknowi and is served with salan (a plain gravy) Thalassery biryani - uses short grain rice, and is served with pappadum, in addition to raita
  5. Tamil style biryani (ambur/ thalapakatti/ Dindigul) - usually use a ground spice paste and are not layered
  6. Bhatkali biryani - heavy on the onions Zamzam biryani - chicken and mutton both in one biryani dish
  7. Bombay biryani - usually less spiced, and has dried plums sometimes
  8. Kolkata Biryani
  9. Sindhi Biryani
  10. Malabar Biryani
  11. Bombay biryani
  12. Dhaka/Kachina

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