You may be aware that Mudhra has been publishing this Music Planner cum Directory for the past 10 years. It is gratifying that this directory is being used by almost everybody in the fine arts field and it gives a lot of satisfaction to note that over the years, it is getting good popularity in places outside India as well.

Every year, apart from incorporating changes in the existing data base, we are also receiving many requests for new inclusions in various categories. Thus, the volume of the book has also been increasing considerably. We aim at covering the entire gamut of the music world so that every artist, young or old, junior or senior gets to have his/ her name included in this directory. We have also included music related contacts as well as artists of other performing arts, so as to give a wider dimension to the directory. For the convenience of artists and art lovers, we have included addresses and phone no. of various press media, private television channels, hotels, call taxis, train timings and other useful contact numbers.

This book has indeed become a ready reckoner for many purposes  for organisers to fix artists for concerts, for artists to contact sabhas for concert opportunities or invite rasikas to their performance, for organizers to mail invitations to musicians and rasikas for important programmes, for a student to locate a music teacher or even for fixing a judge for a music competition! It is indeed a tough task to make the entries accurate and we have tried our best. Sometimes, artists do not inform us about their change of address or phone number in spite of several reminders from us and this may result in a few errors. Anyway, this directory is a labour of our love for music, our passion to serve the art world in our own small way.

Planner - cum - directory 2012 has been released on 20th November 2011 at Chennai. Those who are interested in getting the copies can send

Rs.240/- + 20 courier charges = Rs.260 within chennai and

Rs.240+ Rs.40/- =Rs.280/- Outside chenai within india.

Please send a DD in favour of Samudhra. For further details contact Mudhra Bhaskar: 98400 72821 or mudhradirectory@gmail.com  .