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...
View ArticleSubramania Bharati
Birthdays & Anniversaries 11.12.1882 - 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...
View ArticleM. Chandrasekaran
Birthdays & Anniversaries11.12.1937 To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy Sruti 258
View ArticleC 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...
View ArticleSri Krishna Gana Sabha confers Choodamani awards
Senior Kuchipudi dancer and teacher Vyjayanthi Kashi and veteran Kathakali exponent and teacher Sadanam Balakrishnan were conferred the Nritya Choodamani and Aacharya Choodamani awards respectively by...
View ArticleAdyar K. Lakshman
Birthdays & Anniversaries16.12.1933 - 19.08.2014Adyar K. Lakshman, vocalist, nattuvanar, mridangist and erstwhile dancer, is indubitably a sangeetagna, the complete expert in all the aspects of his...
View ArticleRadha Namboodiri receives Sangeetha Pracharya award
Radha Namboodiri, veteran musician, guru and disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, receiving the Sri Shanmukhananda Bharat Ratna Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi Sangeetha Pracharya award from the Chairman V....
View ArticleEnglish translation of book on MDR
The English translation of M.D. Ramanathan—a long poem in Malayalam written by P. Ravikumar—was released by Sanjay Subrahmanyan recently in Tiruvananthapuram. Tamil poet Sukumar and C.V....
View ArticleNatyanjali Trust presents Nartaka Award
Senior Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher Vaibhav Arekar receiving the Nartaka Award from dancer-actor Sripriya Rajkumar on 4 October 2018, at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai, on the inaugural day of the...
View ArticleNritya Ratna for Parvathi
Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala receiving the Nritya Ratna title from B.K. Krishnaraj Vanavarayar, Chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Coimbatore, on 26 October 2018. A Bharatanatyam dancer for the last 40...
View ArticleS.Janaki receiving the ‘Natya Kala Visaarada ha’ Award
S.Janaki, Editor-in-Chief, Sruti Magazine receiving the ‘Natya Kala Visaarada ha’ at the inaugural function of the 38th Natya Kala Conference on 26 December 2018 at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha in Chennai.
View ArticleVidya Shankar
Birthdays & Anniversaries28.12.1919 - 29.6.2010 To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy...
View ArticleKumbakonam Bhanumathi
Birthdays & Anniversaries29.12.1922 - 2.9.2006 To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy Sruti 99-100
View ArticleFROM THE EDITOR
I am overwhelmed by the congratulatory messages from our subscribers and members of the arts fraternity on my taking charge as Editor-in-chief of Sruti. Am aware of the great responsibility that comes...
View ArticleTanjavur S Kalyanaraman
Born in a musically inclined family at Thiruvengadu near Mayavaram to N. Srinivasa Iyer and wife, S. Kalyanaraman had his initial music training under his...
View ArticleSankeerthana Choodamani Award function Photograph for souvenir
The Sankeerthana Kalanidhi and Sankeerthana Choodamani awards were conferred on N. Mahadeva Bhagavatar and Erode Rajamani Bhagavatar respectively by Justice G.R. Swaminathan, Judge, Madras High Court...
View ArticleAiyyalu honours legends
Veterans Chitra Visweswaran, Padma Subrahmanyam, Sudharani Raghupathy and C.V. Chandrasekhar were honoured with the title of Aiyyelu Natya Sreshta on the occasion of dance costume designer D.S....
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