Concept of a Raga – II
In the previous post, I ended with Mukund Lath’s central question: How do we understand the identity of an object whose very identity depends upon change? The raga, Lath argues, presents us with precisely such a case. At the heart of Indian classical music lies not the faithful or mechanical reproduction of a fixed sequence of svaras, but the unfolding of the raga as a “malleable”, “living” and “felt” musical form. Yet, this living form…