How can I continue my carnatic music training, now that I am in IIT Madras?

Listening skill is very important to register the swarasthana or swar placement.Lots of listening will help us to improvise and progress for the advanced lessons

Playback singers like, Shaan, Sonu Nigam, Shankar mahadevan, Monali Thakur, Amit Trivedi offer vocal music lessons.

First try and figure out as why your throat is paining. 1) Are you singing in the right pitch ? find your scale first. 2) Is your throat alright ? do you have sore throat ? Singing in the wrong pitch...

To start a concert or performance usually Lord Ganapathi vandanam song Vathapi ganapathim is sung.

its somewhat like this: the layam is attained when a musician able to perform a perfect note or tune with synching the srutirhythm,perfect emotion of the song reproduced by musucian as exactly imagined...