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Talking about how it came about, Nityanand Jayaraman says, 'For many years, I have been seeing that what we call as 'development' has been taking place at the expense of certain kinds of people and spaces. The project is a collaboration between Krishna, journalist and social activist Nityanand Jayaraman, director Rathindran Prasad (of Kodaikanal Won't video fame) and songwriter Kaber Vasuki. The song, titled Chennai Poromboke Paadal, seeks to create awareness on the importance of poromboke areas, which are being usurped in the name of development, and will be launched by writer Perumal Murugan today at a special event. But now she has had to offer an explanation on her Facebook page, saying that she 'was against any religious conversion'.He is considered the enfant terrible of the Carnatic music world, and true to the description, TM Krishna is now coming out with a Carnatic song that is in Chennai Tamil. She said: 'I feel happy and privileged to be part of an album that reaches out to everyone'. Nithyasree Mahadevan has in recent years sung songs in the Telugu language in the Carnatic genre in praise of Christ.Eminent female Carnatic classical singers like Aruna Sairam and Nithyasree Mahadevan have sung in praise of Christ.His sons are also celebrated instrumentalists, whose special performances in the Venkateshwara Balaji Temple in Tirupati are feted events Sheik Chinna Moulana, a Muslim, was a legendary Carnatic instrumentalist who played the nadaswaram, a sacred Hindu woodwind instrument.The Carnatic music vocalist has critiqued the south Indian classical music industry in the past for being a Brahmin preserve Celebrated classical musician TM Krishna performed at the Afghan Church in Mumbai last year and at the Christ the King Church in Chennai in the spirit of communal harmony in February.KJ Yesudas, a Christian from neighbouring state of Kerala, is one of the most popular Carnatic musicians in south India.

For more than a century, Carnatic music's syncretic side (its attempt to reconcile opposing practices) has had a tradition of Christian composers like Abraham Panditar or Vedanayakam Pillai setting songs to Carnatic melodies or ragas - the basic musical modes which denote 'moods' in Indian classical music.

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