City sitar vidwan Madhu Murthy paid rich tribute to music and the multi-dimensional city of Hyderabad recentlyat Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan through a tribute to the four minarets of sitar — Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan.

This devotional event in the city saw a lot of Balaji followers in high spirits as they watched with much awe Muvva perform the Andhra Natyam.

Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman launched Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto, the theme song for the Commonwealth Games in Gurgaon on Saturday.

City police have decided to ban playing of film and vulgar music at all Ganesh pandals during Ganesh Chaturthi. On the occasion of launching eco- friendly Ganesh idols, additional commissioner of police (Coordination) Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao said it would be a pre-condition for giving permission to erect pandals in the twin cities.

It may just be a sweet coincidence but the first song Sreeram Chandra Mynampati sang on stage (in his school assembly) was Lata Mangeshkar's Vande Mataram.