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About Me

I am Shrikaanth K. Murthy.

I hail from KoNanUr in Hassan dt, Karnataka. My parents are Padmini and Krishnamurthy. My mother tongue is sankEti. My wife Sahana and I are currently living in Maidstone, UK. I am a psychiatrist.


Karnatik music is my passion. I sing. My mother is my guru, not just for music but  for the way I live. I have composed in all genres of compositions in Karnatik music. I have composed in Sanketi, Kannada, Sanskrit and Tamil. I  love reading books in various languages. I am well versed with Sanketi, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and English and have a working knowledge of  Telugu, Malayalam and Sanskrit. I firmly believe that it is music that has taught me these languages.

I am also keen on Dravidian linguistics and have been toying with the idea (for years now!) of writing a book on the Sanketi language. I have written some poetry in Sanketi- namely a brief treatise (I am not sure it deserves this high-sounding name) on Prosody in music and "Ambika antAdi", both in kandapadya metre. This apart I have written a few stray poems in Kannada and Sanketi including EkAkSharis.

Enough for now.

I may write on just about anything under the sun in this website of mine. But I presume there will be a lot on music, Sanketi and kannada.

 

iruvudellava biTTu iraduda nenevude jIvana