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The Compleat Rasika
A SeshanBy Seshan Ramaswami A Seshan, a Sruti subscriber since its inception, and a regular contributor (often under the nom-de-plume Sankarabharanan) of articles and letters to the magazine, passed...
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The Gentle Rebel
Gnani: an appreciationBy CharukesiGnani Sankaran, a fiery writer of gentle demeanour, passed away at Chennai on 15 January 2018. He was 64, and had been suffering from a kidney ailment.It was exactly...
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Awards for artistic couple
Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher Indira Kadambi receiving the Vidhya Tapasvi award instituted by Tapas Cultural Foundation, Chennai, from Dr. R. Nagaswamy and N.S. Jayalakshmi on 18 February...
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Season Awards
Visakha Music Academy conferred its title Sangeeta Kala Sagara on Trichur V. Ramachandran, during its 48th annual festival of music, on 26 November 2017 in Visakhapatnam.Mudhra (Radha and Mudhra...
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D K Pattammal Centenary
By SamudriSangita Kalanidhi DK Pattammal's centenary celebrations are being planned on a grand scale by a trust comprising her family, disciples and admirers. Her 100th birth anniversary falls on 19...
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Birthdays & Anniversaries14.3.1929 - 28.9.1990One of the foremost presentday practitioners of dhrupad, Umakant Gundecha has an interesting name for Seattle, USA. He calls the city “Dhrupad Nagari”...
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Bharatanatyam guru honoured
The queen receives Chamundeswari PaniGuru Chamundeswari with Her Majesty Queen ElizabethChamundeswari Pani, senior Bharatanatyam artist, choreographer, guru and producer of several dance dramas in the...
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VV. Subramanyam
Birthdays & AnniversariesVV. Subramanyam is a musician who, even his worst detractors will admit, has reached regions beyond mere technique and dwells in them. As a probable corollary, he is not...
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The Pattammal century
An exciting slew of events has been planned to celebrate the centenary of one of Carnatic music's enduring icons starting on Saturday 17 March and culminating on her 100th birth anniversary on 19th...
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Sudharani Raghupathy
Birthdays & Anniversaries21.3.1944In 1965, Sudharani was only 21 years of age but the responsibility of choosing which road to follow was left entirely to her by her parents. Her mother was ready...
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Ustad Bismillah Khan
Birthdays & Anniversaries21.3.1916 - 21.8.2006Ustad Bismillah Khan, the shehnai maestro, and possibly the most popular Hindustani classical musician of the 20th century, breathed his last at the...
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M.S. Anantharaman a violinist of rare skill
Violinist M.S. Anantharaman, a Carnatic music icon who straddled the 20th and 21st centuries as a performing violinist and guru, passed away in February, bringing to an end a rare period in...
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D K Pattammal
Birthdays & Anniversaries28.3.1919 - 16.7.2009Born in Kanchipuram on 28 March 1919, Damal Krishnaswamy Dikshitar Pattammal was over 90 when she lifelong admirers of her magnificent, sonorous...
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Devakottai Narayana Iyengar
Birthdays & AnniversariesVeena is one of the most ancient among Indian musical instruments and is as old as Hinduism. Sanskrit texts on music of yore refer to all stringed instruments as veena-s....
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Padma Varadan
Birthdays & AnniversariesIn earliest vision of musical perfection was the image of Padma Varadan’s (Pappa Akka as I used to call her when I was a child) slender fingers gliding effortlessly over...
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S. Nagarajan
Musicians for Classical DanceBy Anjana AnandA versatile percussionist, S. Nagarajan has been accompanying senior Bharatanatyam artistes for the past two decades. At Kaladarshanam, a school he founded,...
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