as musicians we learn new compositions and we keep exploring different ragas there are different periods during which we lean towards one raga in 10 concerts a raga might be featured five or six times invariably then once that phase passes you probably will not hear it in the next 15 or 20 concerts and then it will pop back that i think is the beauty of the options that are available wide and plenty all of them have amazing scope for explorationone raga i have circled back to often is begada in fact when i was around 12 years old i remember telling my friends that one thing i wanted to probably learn was every composition in begada that raga continues to fascinate me incidentally in my concert this monday that was the raga i sang as the main pieceif someone put a gun to my head and said i had to pick one raga it would be begada the melody of this raga is stuck in my head i remember hanging around my mothers classes with her teacher as a toddler her teacher made her learn one line in this raga over and over again across three or four classes that was the one line i kept hearing she was also my teacher between 2000 and 2003 the first ever composition that she taught me was the begada varnam that is my earliest memory of any raga or any class