Guest article by Subodh Agrawal
(Followers of SoY are familiar with Subodh’s elegant writings on songs based on classical ragas. He surpasses himself with this article on one of the most popular and accessible ragas – Malkaus – which he describes as the greatest pentatonic raga. He bears his scholarship lightly with his fluent and easy style of writing. Here is his fifth article in the series – AK
I began this series with ten iconic film songs in different ragas – songs that are good enough to be used by students of classical music to get an intuitive feel for the raga. I deliberately left out the greatest iconic song of all – Man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj in Malkauns, because I hoped to do a separate post on this raga. Finally, I am here to share my love for this great raga with the SoY family.
