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In pursuance of its objective

of promoting Indian culture throughoutreach programmes, the BharatiyaVidya Bhavan recently hosted acultural festival in Kolkata at theBhasha Bhavan auditorium, NationalLibrary. It was coordinated byBhavan’s Bengaluru Kendra underthe ‘Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan- InfosysFoundation Cultural OutreachProgramme’ jointly with theNational Library, Kolkata, andheld on March 6.

This was a flagship event of theBhavan to fulfill its mission to promoteyoung talent in Indian music and dance.

The programme will be held on thesecond Friday of every month.The event began with a melodiousinvocation by Dr. Moitra Sinha,a well-known Hindustani classicalmusician.

Justice Dr. Manjula Chellur,Chief Justice, High Court of Kolkata,inaugurated the programme.Dr. P.Y. Rajendra Kumar, Director-General, National Library, was theChief Guest. Justice ChittatoshMookerjee, Chairman, Bhavan’sKolkata Kendra, presided.Sri H N Suresh, Director andSri K G Raghavan, Hon. Secretary,

KOLKATA OPENS CURTAINS FORBHAVAN- INFOSYS PROGRAMME

Justice Dr. Manjula Chellur, Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court lighting the lampto mark the inauguration of Bhavan-Infosys Foundation outreach programme at

Kolkata while the dignitaries and artists joins.

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Bhavan’s Bengaluru Kendra,were among the esteemed guests.

Sri Suresh briefed theaudience on the objectives of thecultural outreach programme,which had already opened itschapter in Bengaluru in February.Bhavan was at the forefront ofnurturing Indian culture for the

last 76 years, both in India andabroad. Infosys Foundation waslending the much-needed helpinghand through its patronage.Recalling the association ofJustice Chellur in Bhavan’sactivities, he appealed to thoseinterested to join hands inpromoting the country’s richcultural heritage.

Justice Dr. Manjula Chellur, Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court being honouredby Sri. K.G. Raghavan, Hon. Secretary, BVB, Bengaluru . While others from left

Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Exe. Director, National Library, Sri. Subramanian, Director,BVB Kolkata and Sri. H.N. Suresh, Director, BVB, Bengaluru joins.

Artists from North Eastern region perform during the inaugural programme of theBVB-Infosys foundation outreach programme at Kolkata.

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Justice Chellur laudedKolkata as the hub of art andliterature in the country. AsMunshiji had envisioned, Bhavanwas indeed an Adventure in Faith,with an international outlook.She felt the Bhavan reflected thespirit of Vasudaiva Kutumbakam– where every Bhavanite feels hebelongs to one family. She saidculture fills the vacuum in modern

day life. Infosys Foundation wasdoing yeomen service in healthcare, education, vocationaltraining, and entrepreneurshipfor destitute women and manyfields of social importance, shesaid, hoping that the outreachprogramme would enhance thecultural flavour of Kolkata.

Under the initiative, oneevent will be held every month of

Justice Dr. Manjula Chellur felicitate Smt. Rani Karnaa, legendary dancer in thepresence of Sri. Sunderlal Mehta, President, BVB worldwide while others join.

Ustad Hafiz Bale Khan and Ustad Rais Bale Khan perform Sitarduring the inaugural programme of Bhavan-Infosys Foundation

outreach programme at Kolkata

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the year. Dr. Rajendra Kumarpointed out that a library is also acultural centre, besides being aprovider of works on literature.He informed that InfosysFoundation had agreed to digitiseJustice Ashutosh Mookerjee’s

collection of over 87,500 booksin various languages including inPali & Praktrit. Justice AshutoshMookerjee was Vice-Chancellorof Kolkata University and ChiefJustice of the Kolkata HighCourt. The National Library is

Sri. Surenderlal Mehta, President, BVB, Worldwide felicitates Smt. Sutapa TalukdarRenowned Odissi Danseur. Also seen in the picture Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan,

Director, Nupura, School of Bharatanatya, Bengaluru.

Sri. K.G. Raghavan, felicitates Dr. P.Y. Rajendra Kumar, Director, National Librarywhile Sri. H.N. Suresh, Director, BVB joins.

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over 112 years old and thebiggest library in Asia with nearly25 lakh books.

Sri Raghavan recalledKolkata’s contribution to modern

India and the world in the fields ofliterature, science, arts etc. JusticeChittatosh Mookerjee thankedInfosys Foundation, the NationalLibrary and Bharatiya Vidya

Artists perform during Purandara Namana at National Library, Kolkata

Sri. K.G. Raghavan, Hon. Secretary, BVB, Bengaluru felicitates Dr. LalithaSrinivasan, Director, Nupura, School of Bharatanatya. While Sri. H.N. Suresh,

Director, BVB, Bengaluru, Sri. Subramaniam, Director, Kolkata BVB, joins.

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Bhavan, Bengaluru, forconceptualizing the outreachprogramme.

A sitar Jugalbandi by brothersUstad Rais Bale Khan and UstadHafiz Bale Khan, marked theinaugural concert. Practitioners ofthe Kirana & Dharwad Gharana,the brothers belong to the familyof renowned sitarists RatnaRahimat Khan(great-grandfather),Ustad Abdul Karim Khan

(grandfather) and Ustad BaleKhan (father), who wereinstrumental in popularizing sitarin South India.

The concert, which featuredraag Pooriya Kalyan, was ablysupported on tabla by PanditSandip Ghosh. The secondperformance of the evening wasa breathtakingly beautiful folkdance performance by artistes ofthe northeastern state of Tripura,

Folk artists from North Eastern states perform during the inaugural programme ofBhavan-Infosys Foundation outreach programme

Sri K.G. Raghavan, Hon. Secretary, BVB, Bengaluru and Sri. H.N. Suresh,Director, BVB, Bengaluru during a conversation with Sri. Sunderlal G. Mehta,

President, BVB, worldwide at Kolkata.

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who performed the famousHojagiri dance.

The next day—March 7—featured Purundara Namana, adance feature choreographed anddirected by Dr. Lalita Srinivasan,an eminent Bharatanatyam dancer.Held under the auspices of theSmt. C Rangamma and SriC. Beemappa Chetty MemorialEndowment programme, it wasa visual delight, featuring thecompositions of Purandaradasa.Suladi Prabandha, and a solo,

‘Kele Gopi Ninna....’ inragamalika, by Kusuma RanjitaViven recital. The artistes,Ms. Manasa Rao, Ms. Sri Vidya,Ms. Kusuma Ranjita Viven andSri. Ajay Viswanath werefelicitated. Ms. Ranjita Viven isthe daughter of Justice Chellur.

Justice Dr. Chellurrecalled how her parentsSri C. Bheemappa Chetty andSmt. Rangamma, encouragedtheir children to learn fine arts.

Justice Altamas Kabir,former Chief Justice of India,complimented Justice Chellur forsetting up the endowment in thename of her parents .

Bhavan honoured legendarydancers Padmashri Smt. RaniKarnaa and Smt. SutapaTalukdar on the occasion.

Justice Chittatosh Mookerjee, Chairman, BVB, Kolkata Kendra beinghonoured by Sri. H.N. Suresh, Director, BVB Bengaluru while

Sri. K.G. Raghavan, Hon. Secretary BVB, joins.

SMT. C RANGAMMAAND SRI C. BEEMAPPACHETTY MEMORIALENDOWMENTPROGRAMME

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Smt. Karnaa, anaccomplished dancer inKathak, Odissi, Bharatanatyamand Manipuri, was a disciple ofNrityacharya Narayan Prasad,and also learnt from Guru Hiralal,Pandit Birju Maharaj, and GuruKelucharan Mohapatra. Sheguides the Sangeet and NrityaShikshan Bharati, a division ofBharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kolkata.Smt. Karnaa said dance for her isan ‘Ananta yatra’, a journey fromone stage to another in life.

Smt. Sutapa Talukdarrecalled her five decades as adancer and a teacher, and herlearning under KelucharanMohapatra. She said it wasdevotion, dedication anddiscipline that had made herwhat she was.

Nupura School ofBharathanatyam has built anenviable reputation in Karnataka,under the guidance of GuruLalitha Srinivasan a dancer,choreographer and researchscholar. What is special aboutNupura is its strict adherenceto the indigenous form ofBharatanatyam on the one hand,and the innovative spirit it workswith , to contemporize its highlycommunicative art on the other.Nupura has come to be a flag-

Artists perform during the dance recital ‘Purandara Namana’ :From left Smt. Kusuma Ranjitha Vivin, Kum. Sreevidya Somayaji,

Sri. Ajay Vishwanath and Smt. Manasa Rao

CONTRIBUTION OF

GURU KELUCHARAN

MOHAPATRA

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bearer of the Mysore style ofrendition –has made it a missionto imbibe its flavor, customize itsintricacies and emerge with a stylethat typifies grace and dignity anda different way of renderingabhinaya.

Smt. Srinivasan headsNupura, founded in 1978.She has to her credit numerousdance ballets like Chitrangadha,Sri Krishna Parijatha, Lasyotsava,Prem Bhakti Mukti, KoushikaSukritam, Gowdara Malli, andDeva Kannika, the latest beingAnveshane and Nisha Vibhrama .In addition to the numerousdancers she has tutored, she is

the holder of the prestigeousShiromani and Priyadarshiniawards at the national leveland the Karnataka SangeethaNritya Academy and KannadaRajyothsava awards at the statelevel. She was a fellow of theMinistry of Human ResourceDevelopment –Government ofIndia.

MYSORE STYLEOF RENDITION :A DIFFERENT WAYOF RENDERINGABHINAYA

Folk artists from North Eastern region perform during the inaugural programme ofBhavan-Infosys Foundation outreach programme at Kolkata.

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Lalitha, initially a student ofGuru Keshavamurthy, laterspecialised in abhinaya underSmt. Dr.K.Venkatalakshammaand Smt. Jejamma. Her masteryover abhinaya is a treat to watch.

Sutapa Talukdar haspopularized Odissi at thenational level. She set up herdance school, Gurukul, in1987, where stringent practiceis the hallmark. She entered theworld of dance at the age of six,learning three diverse formssimultaneously – Manipuri,Kathakali and Mohiniattam.She first learnt Odissi fromGuru Muralidhar Majhi.

Rani Karnaa was born in1939, into a Sindhi family inHyderabad, in present- day

Pakistan. Her early teacherswere Nrityacharya NarayanPrasad and Sundar Prasad.She mastered the Jaipur gharanaunder Guru Hiralal and theLucknow gharana under PanditBirju Maharaj. She later learntunder Kelucharan Mahapatra,also trained under variousother gurus such as AmubiSingh, Narendra Kumar andLalita Shastri. He has researchedon the aesthetics of Kathak.

GURU SUTAPA

TALUKDAR AND

GURU RANI KARNAA

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February 27, 2015, was a

landmark day for the Bhavan’sBengaluru Kendra, as it usheredin a new and ambitious projectlaunched specifically to reach outto art lovers spread across theCity—the BVB-InfosysFoundation Outreach Culturalprogramme got off to anauspicious start with areverberating classical musicconcert, “Swara Laya Madhuri”,comprising an array ofinstruments. This outreachprogramme series has beenplanned in association with‘Ananya’ trust.

It was a grand team effort ofveena artistes Geetha Ramanandand Revathi Murthy, flautist

BENGALURU

USHERS IN

OUTREACH

PROGRAMME

Tejaswi Raghunath, violinistH.M.Smitha, mridangistA.S.N. Swamy, ghatam artisteS.N.Narayana Murthy, khanjiraplayer B.S.Nagaraj, and morsingartiste Bhardwaj Sathavalli, all ofthem established artistes in theirown right.

Lead by Smt. Ramanand,it was a distinctive concert,boasting of melody and rhythmicrichness., satiating the tastes ofthose who prefer melody, and

Smt. Vimala Rangachar, President, M.E.S. institutions lighting the lamp to mark theinauguration of Bhavan-Infosys outreach programme while Sri. Raghavendra,

Founder of Ananya, Sri. H.N. Suresh, Director, BVB, joins.

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also those who like a touch oftoe-tapping experience even in aclassical concert. That so manyindividually-sought-after artistescame together, was in itself atreat for the audience.

The programme wasinaugurated by none other thanthe king of creative percussionendeavours, Sri. AnoorAnanthakrishna Sharma.Smt. Vimala Rangachar, Presidentof the prestigious MES chain of

institutions, shared the dais withSharma. It came as no surprisewhen she announced that hereducational institutions wouldwhole-heartedly support theoutreach programmes, asSmt. Rangachar has foundedand built several cultural andart institutions in Karnataka,all of which continue to beflagship organizations in upholdingthe fundamental spirit and formof the State’s arts and crafts.

Artists perform during the classical music concert ‘Swara Laya Madhuri’under the direction of Vidushi.Geetha Ramanand

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Jatayu Moksha is one

of the most touching episodes ofthe Ramayana which lends itselfwell to dramatization on stage.Sometimes, almost the entire epicis encapsulated into the episode,to bring out the story of Rama incontextual form, while focussingon the nobility and sacrifice ofJatayu.

The Rashtrakavi Govinda PaiSamshodhana Kendra, Udupi, a50-year-old oriental researchcentre known for its vast and rarecollections on the history andculture of the region, has an activecultural wing— its YakshaganaKendra has not only preserved

JATAYU

MOKSHA IN

YAKSHAGANA

FORMthis performing art throughtraining, but has blossomed intoa fine professional performingtroupe.

This troupe, under thedirection of Prof. H. KrishnaBhat, Hon. Director of theKendra, presented JatayuMoksha on March 15, got up bythe Dr. K. M. Munshi Institute of

Artists from Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra, Udupi,performing Yakshagana - Jatayu Moksha

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Arts & Culture, Bhavan Kendra,Bengaluru, at its premises.

Beginning with the exile ofRama, the performance traversedthrough the Shurpanakha,Maricha, and Sitaapaharanaepisodes, leading up to the valiantfight of Jatayu, to save Sita fromRavana. Granting of salvation toJatayu, by Rama and Lakshmana,ended the Yakshagana recital,whose main vocalist SathishKedilaya added to the dramaticcontent. Devadas Rao Koodly(maddale) and KrishnamoorthyBhat (chande) were the otheraccompanists.

The characters were playedout by Moggva Ganesh Naik

(Rama), Manjunath (Lakshmana),Prasad Kumar Mogebettu(Seetha), Krishnamoorthy Urala(Shurpanakha), Umesh Pujari(Ravana), Pratish Kumar(sanyasi), Mithun Bhramhavara(deer), Karthik Subhramannya(Jatayu), with Maddhukar andPradeep Achor as curtain holders.

Art direction was bySanjeeva Suvarna.

Yakshagana

artists

performing -

‘Jatayu

Moksha’

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PROGRAMME :APRIL - 2015

Sat 6.30 p.m. - ESV Hall18. Astrology lectureTopic : Delay in MarriageSpeaker : Dr. Krishna Kumar

Sun 6.30 p.m. - ESV Hall19. Book launch byDr. M. Rama Jois‘Jeevana Kale Bhagavad Geethe’authored by Sri. S.V. Manjunath

Fri 6.30 p.m. -24. BVB Infosys Foundationoutreach cultural programmes‘Vadya Vaibhava’Multi violin concert byVid Dr. T.S. KrisnamurthyVenue : Vasavi Education Trust,Basavanagudi, Bengaluru

Fri 6.00 p.m. -10. Carnatic Vocal byKum. K. Lavanya

(in association with InfosysFoundation)Venue : Indian Institute ofWorld Culture, Basavanagudi,Bengaluru.

Fri 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall10. Bharathanatya Arangetramby Ms. Divya Uthappa(Disciple of Guru Kolar Ramesh)

Sat 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall11. Kuchipudi Dance by

Ms. Saraswathi RajatheshDirector, Natya SaraswathiDance Centre.under Horizon Series,(In association with Indian Councilfor Cultural Relations)

Thu - Fri 11.00 a.m. - Khincha Hall16 - 17. Bhavan’s MPBIM

Paradigm

Wed 10.00 a.m. - Khincha Hall29. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavanand Karnataka Nritya Academypresents : World Dance DayInauguration : Smt UmashreeHon’ble Minister forKannada and CultureGuests of honour : Sri H.N.SureshDirector, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,Bengaluru. Presided over bySmt Gangamma KeshavamurthyPrisident, Karnataka SangeethaNrithya Academy, Bengaluru

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