Monthly Archives: February 2020


Upbeat Labs Celebrating Nine Years
Nine years ago, we released Talanome, the first-of-its-kind Carnatic Metronome mobile app, on the Apple App Store. Since then, it has grown from strength to strength with constant updates and a growing list of features, delving deeper and deeper into Tala and Layam. My TalaVadyam was released a couple of […]

Celebrating Nine Years!


Purandardasa Indian Postage Stamp
Greetings! Number 2 in the Carnatic Postage Stamp Series is this stamp of Purandaradasa, issued on January 14th, 1964 under a 15 naya paisa denomination, on the occasion of his 400th Anniversary of his Samadi The following writeup was released in the Information Folder issued by Indian Posts & Telegraph […]

Carnatic Postage Stamp Series #2 – Purandaradasa


Saint Tyagaraja Postage Stamp
Greetings! This is the very first post of the Carnatic Postage Stamp Series posts, celebrating one of the Trinity of Carnatic Music – Saint Tyagaraja! This commemorative stamp was issued on January 6th, 1961, under a 15 naya paise denomination. The following writeup was released in the Information Folder issued […]

Carnatic Postage Stamp Series #1 – Saint Tyagaraja



Carnatic Postage Stamp Series
Did you know that 19 different postage stamps have been released celebrating Carnatic musicians, starting with Saint Tyagaraja, whose 15 np (naya paisa) denomination special commemorative stamp was released on Jan 6th, 1961? How fascinating! Apart from celebrating the doyens of music, these stamps are also a part of history, […]

Carnatic Postage Stamp Series