Rare Ragas of interest

Recently i came across a raga called KANNADA Bangala, a Janya Ragam of Maya Malava Gowla and is very much similar to Malahari..with a scale...SRMPDS SDMPMGRS and malahari..we have SDPMGRS as avarohanam..Very interesting raga and i heard a kriti composed by Sri.Muthuswamy Dikshitar in the praise of Renuka Devi( The creator of Parashurama), a superb composition and i heard this kriti rendered by Mr.Prasanna Venkatraman , a leading carnatic Vocalist (student of My Guru..TR.Balamani and Sanjay Subramanyam) in Sringeri Sharada matt, Chembur, Mumbai. The song starts with Renuka devi and a brilliant composition starting with D, D,..... gives a great effect. This raga closely resembles with a Hindustani raga Gunkari or Gunkali with a scale of SRMPDSSDPMRS....!!! Ilayaraja composed a cine piece in this raga in the film (Tanduvitten ennai---Name of teh song..Kannukulle ) wherein he brigns out the another aspect called graha bedam , when we take 'R" as Shadjam we will get Amritavarshini from the scale...!!!The composition of this song remnisces both Gunkari and Amritavarshini.
After the inspiration and beauty of this RENUKA DEVI song, we requested our Guruji to teach us this kriti and she started teaching this Kriti...a great time we had after hearing/learning this kriti.

What is cream of Carnatic Music?

The cream of Carnatic Music is lying in the way we present the form of music either through vocal or instrumental....my Great-guru Smt.T.R.Balamani always says that carnatic music should be heavy and we are never allowed to sing light doses while we sing any form of carnatic pieces and she is correct that the cream of carnatic music is the way we handle the ragas with more Azhuttham(pressure) and that is the school of Smt.T.R.Balamani..the renowned Music Maha Guru in Mumbai( A disciple of Musiri, TK.Govinda Roa and many more stalwarts of Carnatic music)

If we like to drink the nectar of Carnatic music, then it is must to understand the intricasies of a raga and how to handle it in a correct manner so that we can hear and drink the cream of Carnatic Music..now a days many musicians started handling it in a lighter doses which is not fair and can be looked into it deeply.