The Voice That Transcended Boundaries
The Voice That Transcended Boundaries S.P.Balasubrahmanyam (04-Jun-1946 to 25-Sep-2020) - A Tribute There was a sense of unrest from the previous evening, when out of the blue came a hospital bulletin that called his condition 'extremely critical'. Celebrities and family members had started making a beeline to the hospital. One had started anticipating an official confirmation anytime. Such is our fickle mind that not so long ago prayed for him to come back sooner and stronger. One could sense what was coming. A few minutes past 1 pm, director Venkat Prabhu (son of lyricist/composer Gangai Amaren) broke the inevitable truth. The lungs that breathed immortality into thousands of songs had finally given up. For about an hour that followed, I was staring blankly at my laptop screen not knowing how to go about my work for the rest of the day. I could not listen in to a webinar I had signed up for and quietly dropped off. It was a tsunami of sort...