Commercial Broadcasting Service
All India Radio, Bangalore
Dr. N. Raghu is an officer of the Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service working as a Deputy Director (Programmes) at Commercial Broadcasting Service, All India Radio, Bengaluru. Besides his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, he earned a D.Lit from Kannada University, Hampi, for his dissertation on musical stylistics titled ‘Sangeetha Shaili Shastra’.
He hails from a family of passionate musicians belonging to the student lineage of Saint Tyagaraja. He
is also a Grade-I Music Composer of All India Radio and a recipient of Junior Research Fellowship
from the Department of Culture for his research thesis, later published as a book titled ‘Rasamsha:
A New hypothesis in Indian Music’.
A couple of his classical compositions have been adapted for Bharathanatyam by leading dancers of
Bangalore.
His areas of interests are – Light / Devotional music composing, Musicological Research, music
broadcasting, Radio Drama and Broadcast Voice Culture Training.
He was instrumental in implementing Amrithavarshini 100.1 FM in 2008 and RAAGAM 24×7, India‟s
first ever Classical Music Channel in 2016.
Dr Raghu designed a package of about 50 hours of programmes coordinating all the AIR stations in
Karnataka for the prestigious Mahamastakabhisheka held at Shravanabelagola in 2018. This package
also earned huge revenue.
He has been the driving force behind the production of a number of research-based features about
various aspects of Indian Music.
He had been a guest speaker at the Summer School on Music Science and Technology Research,
organized by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2017).
He was an invited speaker at the orientation programme for the research students of Jain University
to address the topic – Research Methodologies and Performing Arts (2018).
Dr Raghu has been a producer of a number of award-winning radio programmes. He won the first
prize for his Kannada Play „Dweepa‟ at the All India Radio Playwright‟s competition (1989) and the
first prize for the production of the radio drama “Kharevandra Tappu” at the AIR‟s annual award
competition (2009).
He did accomplish a unique task of adapting Dr V.K.Gokak‟s epic poetry „Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi‟ to
a serial radio drama. His productions „Geethamrutha‟ [Musical adaptation of Srimad Bhagavadgeetha
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with commentary], „Prasanna Vrindavani‟ [ Musical adaptation of Prasanna Venkatadasa‟s Bhagavatha],
„Tatvamayee Bhagavathi‟ [a serial unfolding the concept of Mother Goddess], Ananda Lahari
[Translation and Musical adaptations of the initial 41 slokas of the famous Soundaryalahari stotra
written by Adi Shankaracharya] and many more musical serial programmes based on extensive
research have received immense appreciation from the listeners.
As an author, he has to his credit a weekly column on „Broadcast Voice Culture‟ titled „Nudi
Nidaana‟ published in „Prajavani‟- the leading Kannada daily and a number of articles on music
published in various dailies / magazines.
He is on the panel of honorary editors of „Ananya Kala Sinchana‟ – a monthly magazine dedicated to
Indian Classical Music and Dance. He was also the member of syllabus redesigning committee of
Bangalore University for M.Sc (Electronic Media)
Dr Raghu was also associated with Dr B.V.Karanth for his theatre music and two of his film scores
– „Who Ghar‟ (teleplay) and „Nakkala Rajakumari‟(Feature Film). He has composed music for the
stage plays „Giant Mama‟, „Nakkala Rajakumari‟ „Harishchandra Kavya‟ independently