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The Music Season encompasses performances (kacheries) of traditional Carnatic music by hundreds of artists in and around the city. This happens during the Tamil month of Mārgaḻi and this period is a festive and joyous time in Chennai. The mercury lies in the low twenties and the music rendered by the great musicians is soul-stirring and ...
Chennai hosts a large cultural event, the annual Madras Music Season, which includes performances by hundreds of artists. There are 72 basic scales on the octave, and a rich variety of melodic motion. Both melodic and rhythmic structures are varied and compelling. This is one of the world's oldest and richest musical traditions. [1]
Thousand Lights (Tamil: ... is a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the largest mosques in the country and is a revered place ...
Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru is a music festival, which has been conducted consecutively since 2005. It is an eight-day Carnatic music festival lasting from 18 to 25 December every year at Kamarajar Arangam, Teynampet, Chennai. Performances by Carnatic and Hindustani musicians, dancers, and discourses have been scheduled in this weeklong event with ...
Chennai is one of four Indian cities connected by undersea fibre-optic cables and is the landing point of SMW 4 (connecting with Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia), i2i and TIC (connecting with Singapore), BBG (connecting with Middle East, Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka), Gulf Bridge International (connecting with Middle East), and BRICS ...
B. M. Birla Planetarium is a large planetarium in Chennai, India.The fifth B. M. Birla planetarium in the country, it is located at Kotturpuram in the Periyar Science and Technology Centre campus which houses eight galleries, namely, Physical Science, Electronics and Communication, Energy, Life Science, Innovation, Transport, International Dolls and Children and Materials Science, with over ...
Chennai Sangamam (Tamil: சென்னை சங்கமம்) is a large annual open Tamil cultural festival held in the city of Chennai. The festival is organized by the Tamil Maiyam and Department of Tourism and Culture of the Government of Tamil Nadu with the intention of rejuvenating the old village festivals, art and artists. [ 1 ]
Chennai attracted 3,581,200 foreign tourists that year with a growth rate of only 1.1 percent over 2012. [8] Chennai continued to remain the third most visited city destination of India by foreigners in 2014 [9] and 2015 [10] with 3,857,900 and 4,243,700 tourists respectively. The city was 43rd most visited city in the world for year 2015 and ...