Carnatic fundas - any body?

I would like to post information on carnatic music in a very informal and organic way. In my endeavour to continue to appreciate music which kept my childhood family together glued and cemented. My dad is a a great legend who kept music, [speaking] art and literature as a central theme in his life. My mother hails from a from a famous little small holy town in South India - loves music and has mostly pursued my father's interest. The greatest parents one would wish to possess. I remember my dad's first shruti box, Tambura and the way he spent ages geeting the perfect resonance [Jeeru? or Jeera?]. My dad's emotive feel when he sings alapana can not be easily imitated. His favourite are Saramathi, Kalyani [ever-green], kamboji etc. Dad seriously respected sahitya and many a times we have had little duels because of this. May sound silly - but true - really true. When I sang wrong sahitya with complete conviction he would correct me to my surprise. How dare my father say that the teacher is wrong OR 'so-what' audacity. He had his students, they did not progress very well as far as my tracking goes. Then comes energetic support from my own siblings. My eldest sister started learning music and I was accompanying her to the music classes - as an escort. I caught up with the fundamentals of carnatic there. Vidaja ladura na manasu, Maarubalka, Shobhillu, Himagiri tanaye, and many. My brother has been a big influence to me in my childhood in many ways - and I [we] refuse to let go of the bond in spite of heavy pressure [to do so?] including the self-weight of being born to a big family. I learnt taddim, takadim, takita dim, tadi gina tom, tadi gina tom, tadi gina tom, ta !! What a laugh. At 38 years - I am sitting in front of a blogging tool at early morning 03:19! Any way by brother got me seriously into music. He paid my fees for the violin lessons. My other sister also like my eldest was doing a mundane routine of music classes. Also my another brother's love of film music [that was unacceptable to the rest of my family] may have sub-consciously tried to accept carnatic. But now I love sahitya, the raga grammar, the rhythmic complexity and everything that comes with the carnatic pack. My favourite is Dr. Balamuralikrishna. and many other shaped my initial approaches to music learning.