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		<title>Diary of a Carnatic singer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in Chitradurga, around the last years of the Palegar rule, Venkatasubbaiah walks into a temple at an unearthly hour pleading divine help to sort his relationship with his guru. It is evident from the beginning that the young man is way too talented and devoted to be just another normal singer. But he is also demure to a fault and lets himself flow with the wind of the day. When he is challenged by his guru, he submits himself to his art and attains levels of excellence that stuns experts and commoners alike. When he goes in search of a new guru after a misfortune and spots a drunk singer lost to waste, he tugs at his sacred thread before buying alcohol for him, like one would grit teeth before gulping down some bitter medicine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=361445&amp;post=1330&amp;subd=ratnam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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