Chamber III
Learning without performance is incomplete. India's musical tradition was built on the stage — the temple, the court, the sabha, the street. At Sayeesham, every student has a stage, and every voice has a home.
3rd Annual Day of Sayeesham
Bha — Bhavam · Ra — Ragam · Ta — Talam. And Bharata, our eternal motherland.
India gave the world its first grammar, its first mathematics, its first astronomy, its first theory of music. BhaRaTa 2026 is a celebration of that civilisation — performed live on a Munich stage by 40 students from across Germany.
Chief guests
Sri Shatrugna Sinha
Consul General of India, Munich
Herr Nico Heitz
Bürgermeister, Freising
Mrs. Anshika Singh
Elected Member, Migrationsbeirat München
From the stage
Tanjavur Dance, courtesy Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0. A student reel from BhaRaTa replaces this once the recording is ready.
Mann Manam — A Carnatic Cafe
India is not a country — it is a universe of art forms. Long before Greece had its theatre, India had codified a complete science of music in the Natyashastra of Bharata Muni. Mann Manam is Sayeesham's living tribute to that civilisation, the only platform of its kind in Europe — one episode every two to three months, each a window into one corner of India's cultural universe. Every episode begins with the singing of the children of Sayeesham.
22 March 2026
The first episode opened with Namasankeerthanam — congregational singing rooted in the Bhakti movement that dissolved barriers of caste, gender and hierarchy — followed by Deepa Pradakshina, the circumambulation with lamps. The children of Sayeesham led the way.
14 June 2026
The second episode revived India's ancient tradition of oral storytelling. The Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas were not read — they were performed, narrated, sung and lived. The children opened the episode, bridging 3,000 years and the present moment in Germany.
18 October 2026
Dnyaneshwar lived only 21 years yet wrote the Dnyaneshwari at fifteen, choosing the language of the people over Sanskrit. Janabai, a maidservant born into the lowest caste, composed 340 immortal Abhangas at the grinding stone. Together, India's first social revolution — brought to life on a Freising stage.
India has 5,000 years of stories to tell.
Bharatanatyam
The classical dance rooted in Tamil temple tradition — classes coming to Sayeesham.
Harikatha
The storytelling concert form of South India.
Villupattu
The bow-song tradition of Tamil Nadu.
Yakshagana
The ancient theatre of Karnataka.
Kathakali
The classical dance-drama of Kerala.