Ulhas Kashalkar
Birthdays & Anniversaries14.1.1955 To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy Sruti 248
View ArticleCelebrating armed forces week
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai celebrated Armed Forces Week (1-7 December) by inviting Lt Gen R.K. Swamy as the chief guest at a concert on 5 December 2018. R.K.Swamy spoke briefly on the significance...
View ArticleGift of a lifetime
Parivadini – a trust for promotion of music and arts presented new instruments (three nagaswarams and a tavil) to four young teenagers, genuinely in need of assistance, at a function...
View ArticleSadanam Balakrishnan
Birthdays & Anniversaries15.1.1944My first interaction with Kathakali exponent Guru Sadanam P.V. Balakrishnan was during the middle of the 1980s. I was the Secretary of the Kathakali club in...
View ArticleThakur Jaidev Singh
Birthdays & Anniversaries16.1.1893 - 19.5.1986Music to Jaideva Singh was a passion, no doubt, but never his profession or main occupation. He was essentially an academic with philosophy as the...
View ArticleS. Balachander
Birthdays & Anniversaries18.1.1927 - 13.4.1990To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy Sruti 68
View ArticleSawai Gandharva
Birthdays & Anniversaries19.1.1886 - 12.9.1952 To read full story, visit sruti.com and...
View ArticleBahadur Khan
Birthdays & Anniversaries19.1.1931 - 3.10.1989Bahadur Khan (1931-1989) was an outstanding, though inadequately recognised, sarodist, trained by his uncle, the legendary Ustad Alauddin Khan (Baba)....
View ArticleValayapatti Subramaniam
Birthdays & Anniversaries19.1.1941 To read full story, visit sruti.com and buy Sruti 304
View ArticleANTARIKSHA SANCHAR
Blending tradition and technologyNEHA KIRPALA scene from Antariksha SancharAntariksha Sanchar—a transmedia dance opera, staged recently in Delhi and Mumbai, brought together Bharatanatyam and an...
View ArticleCharukesi passes away
Charukesi Viswanathan (81), veteran journalist, prolific writer in Tamil and English (he occasionally wrote for Sruti), translator, committee member of Natyarangam and Narada Gana Sabha, a promoter of...
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The centenary of two stalwarts in the field of arts is being celebrated in February 2019. The 100th birth anniversary of the multifaceted musician, scholar, teacher and classical painter S. Rajam falls...
View ArticleSearch, research and beyond
Senior Bharatanatyam artist, choreographer and teacher, Chitra Visweswaran gave a presentation on ‘Search Research and Beyond’ at the Lec-Dem series of Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, Chennai during Margazhi...
View ArticleEducation through entertainment
Together we can do so much.When am ensemble of artists from different genres and geography - Victoria, the Northern Territory, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Meghalaya came together for the Australia India...
View ArticlePrabasi Bharatiya Samman in dual domains
French national of Indian origin, Malini Ranganathan, an internationally acclaimed Kathak exponent was conferred the prestigious Prabasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the President of India, Ram Nath...
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