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Damayanti joshi
5.12.1932 - 19.9.2004Birthdays & AnniversariesBorn in Mumbai on December 5, to Vatsala Joshi, Damayanti was "adopted" by the wellknown scientist of the times, Col. Sahib Singh Sokhey and his famous...
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Brahma Gana Sabha festival
AwardeesGaana Padmam - T.V. Gopalakrishnan (see Sruti 363, December 2014)Natya Padmam - Nandini RamaniVaadya Padmam - M. Chandrasekaran (see Sruti 258, March 2006)Nataka Padmam - B.M. Purushothaman...
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Festival
AwardeesLifetime achievement awardsKadri Gopalnath (saxophone)O.S. Arun (vocal)Sailaja (kuchipudi)
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Kartik Fine Arts Festival
AwardeesIsai Peroli - S. MahathiNadanamamani - Bhavya Ramachandran (nee Balasubramanian) Tamil Isai Vendhar - N. Vijay Siva (see Sruti 285, June 2008)Isai Chudar - Anahitha & Apoorva Natya...
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Chandralekha
6.12.1928 - 30.12.2006Birthdays & AnniversariesIn the 1960s, she stopped performing Bharatanatyam to become a writer, poet and a human rights activist. Many of us saw her in her earlier avatar and...
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Kadri Gopalnath
Birthdays & Anniversaries06.12.1950In classical music, the young aspirant encounters many hurdles barring the way to fame and fortune. Talent and application to the art are by themselves not...
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kalanidhi Narayanan
7.12.1928 - 21.2.2016Birthdays & AnniversariesKalanidhi's parents, Sumitra and S.V. Ganapathy, decided that their child of seven years should learn Bharatanatyam. In making this decision, they had...
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C. Saroja
Birthdays & Anniversaries7.12.1936 To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy Sruti 85
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Subbaraya Pillai
Birthdays & AnniversariesMy mother Savithri Sabanayagam took me as a four-year old to the illustrious Pandanallur guru Chockalingam Pillai and his son Subbaraya Pillai to learn Bharatanatyam. Their...
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By Thomas W. RossRāgaIn The Sword and the Flute, an exquisite documentary on Indian culture told entirely with miniature paintings, the court and the temple offer clashing views of human experience....
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SRUTI PATTABHI RAMAN MEMORIAL CONCERTS
31 DECEMBER 2017AT SASTRI HALL, LUZ, CHENNAI 4Chief Guest Sri Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director - IIT Madras4.30 pm: Aditya Prakash (vocal)Nishanth Chandran (violin)R Sankaranarayanan (mridangam)6.30 pm: V...
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Subramania Bharati
Birthdays & Anniversaries11.12.1882 - 11.09.1921Subramania Bharati was a celebrated National Poet of India. He was also a good singer, composer, and enlightened critic. He was born on 11 December...
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Seetarama Sarma passes away
Bhagavatula Seetarama Sarma, Carnatic musician, music composer, guru and nattuvangam artist, passed away on 9 December 2017 in Bengaluru. According to reports, he had gone there from Chennai to conduct...
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Sakthivel Muruganantham
Musicians for Classical DanceBy Anjana AnandSakthivel Muruganantham is a well-known mridangist who has accompanied leading Bharatanatyam artistes over the past two decades. An artiste who believes that...
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C Saraswathi Bai
Birthdays & AnniversariesSaraswati Bai was one of the few women artists Bai And The Music Academy C. who performed at the All India Music Conference held in conjunction with the All India Congress...
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