Chenda is a popular drum in the musical world. But why is chenda deemed “the most Royal Drum”? A research paper presented at the Science Congress held at Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering ...

Chenda melam troupes from within Chennai and from Kerala say that business is picking up with election campaigning. "We have no political affi liations,” says Ram Mohan of the Palghat-based Mudhra ...

It was an unusual sight. A young woman clad in a white sari and saffron blouse is standing on the stage with a giant chenda—a ceremonial percussion drum that is traditionally used during ...

At first glance the two instruments don’t seem to make a perfect match — in size, shape, or sound. They are also not played the same way. But a Double Thayambaka featuring chenda and mridangam showed ...

The round leather heads of the chenda (percussion instrument) twist and dry in the laundry-on-a-line in Vellarakaddu village near Thrissur, Kerala. Below the leather heads (vattoms), the fresh cow ...

A bride from Kerala has taken the internet by storm after a video of her playing the traditional drums "chenda" went viral. What also impressed internet users was that the bride did not miss a single ...

FIRST TIME in the last 16 years, a special Chendamelam (drum beat) programme is being organised at the Ayyappa Temple in Gomti Nagar on the occasion of Makara Jyoti Puja on Saturday. A nine-member ...

In a marriage function, the bride and groom are supposed to be the most shy or silent people, but not Shilpa Sreekumar. A video is doing rounds on social media, in which Shilpa can be seen playing a ...

A video that shows a bride enthusiastically playing the drums at her marriage ceremony in Kerala has gone viral. In the clip, uploaded on Twitter, the bride is seen beating the chenda, a musical ...