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Vol.19 No. 11. November - 2018

Gombe habba, festival of

dolls has been the mostcelebrated State festival fromthe period of early rulers ofthe Wodeyar dynasty.

This colourful festival bringsfamilies together, has a rich legacyof story telling and a tradition ofrich South-Indian cuisine. Fromthe Mysore palace to ordinary

‘Yaadevi Sarvabhuteshu Mathru Roopena SamsthitaNamasthasye Namasthasye Namasthasye Namo Namaha’

GOMBE HABBA CELEBRATED

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homes, every household wearsa festive mood and displaysa grand array of dolls.

Celebrating Dasara andNavarathri, Bharatiya VidyaBhavan too like year after yeararranged an impressive range ofdolls.

The festival wasinaugurated by senior kannadacine artist and producerSmt. Girija Lokesh, addressingthe gathering, she said ‘’I feel soproud to be part of this festivalhere. I remember, I used to

come at Bhavan for my dancerehearsals. At home, we toocelebrate the festival with dollsthat are a 100 years old. It is ourresponsibility to carry forward thetradition and pass it on to theyounger generations. I feel happybeing part of this celebration.’’

Shri. A. Ranganatha Rao,National award winningpuppeteer, whose collection ofdolls were on display, explainedthe significance of pattada gombe,salaaki gombe and a few others.

-Swaroop Kunwar

Smt. Girija Lokesh, Senior Kannada Cine Artist viewing the doll exhibition.Also seen in the picture from left Shri. H.N. Suresh, Director, BVB,

Smt. Seetha Ramachandra, Associate Secretary, BVB and Shri Ranganatha Rao,National Award winning puppeteer

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This year’s Nitya Nritya,

a three decade old festival byNupura which was held atBharatiya Vidya Bhavan wasdedicated to renowned scholarlate Shri BVK Shastry on theoccasion of his birth centenary.

Shri. BVK Shastry, underthe pen name ‘Murali’, was acelebrated music and dancecritic. Recipient of around sevenprestigious awards for hisremarkable work, he had

A TRIBUTE TO AN EMINENT SCHOLAR

endeared himself to people withhis humble and simple nature.

Nitya Nritya was athree-day festival of dance andmusic. Shri. Venugopal, RegionalDirector ICCR, was the chiefguest and Shri. Chiranjeev Singh,former ambassador to UNESCO,who also served Govt. ofKarnataka, was the guest ofhonor.

Recalling his experienceand relationship with Shastry ji,

Shri Chiranjeev Singh, former Ambassador UNESCO, lighting the lamp to mark theinauguration of a three day ‘Nitya Nritya’ festival. Also seen in the picture from left

Shri. Venugopal, Regional Director, ICCR, Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan, Director, Nupura,Shri H.N. Suresh, Director, BVB

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Shri. Chiranjeev Singh said,“he was a remarkable art critic.It is rare to find someone towrite about all the art forms. His criticism was never harsh.In fact, it was always constructiveand provided guidance to severalresearch scholars and I’mhonoured to speak about him.’’

Speaking about ShriShastry ji, Venugopal said,“he was a walking encyclopedia.He had immense knowledgeabout music and other arts.His paintings are also relevant.’’

Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan,

Director of Nupura, said,

“Shashtriji was a pioneering guru.

We did programs with artists of

great respect and prominence.’’

She expressed gratitude to the

Nupura team and Bhavan’s staff

for enabling this festival.

Highlight of the day was

the dance Sakhyam, depicting

the eternal friendship of Krishna

and Yamuna. It was performed

by Anuradha, Ramaa and

Radhika.

Shri Chiranjeev Singh, former Ambassador UNESCO cutting the ribbon to mark the

inauguration of a three day stamp exhibition on classical and folk dance by

Ms. N. Sridevi (standing next to Shri Chiranjeev Singh) while others join.

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NITYA-NRITYA - 2018

Bharatanatya performance “Trayi” bySmt. Anuradha Venkataraman, Smt. Radhika Ramanujan

andSmt. Ramaa Venugopal

Dance Feature ‘Roopaka Vaibhava’ by students ofGuru Smt. Revathi Narasimhan

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NITYA-NRITYA - 2018

Lecture Demonstration by Guru Smt. Bhanumati, Director, Nityakala Mandiram

Bharatanatya by Shri Charles Ma.Disciple of Guru Poornima Ashok

Bharatanatya by Kum. Nitya S. PillaiDisciple of Guru S.K. Rajaratnam Pillai

Bharatanatyaby

Kum. Poojitha Padmanabhan.Disciple of Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan,

Director, Nupura School ofBharatanatya

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NITYA-NRITYA - 2018

“Purandara Namana” by students of Nupura School of Bharatanatya

Lecture Demonstration by Guru Smt. Padmini RaviDirector, Padmini Arts Academy.

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KALA BHARATHICONVOCATION ON OCT 28.

KALA BHARATHI : 2018SMT. SUSHEELA NANJUNDAIAH

MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT‘CASH’ PRIZE AWARDEES

The annual Kalabharathi

Diploma Examination was heldon Aug 5 and 12. In all about 58students from 9 disciplines tookexaminations in both theoryand practicals.

As done every year thequestion papers were set byexternal examiners and practicalexamination was assessed bythem. The list of toppers in alldisciplines were announced.Bhavan news congratulates alltoppers and other students whohave successfully completed theDiploma course.

The seventeenth annualKalabharathi convocation

was held on Sunday, Oct 28,2018 at Khincha auditorium.

Prof. Mysore NagamaniSrinath, a multifaced personality,a combination of a teacher,organiser, composer,administrator, director, and aconcert musician of internationalrepute was the chief guest andshe delivered the convocationaddress and distributed thediploma certificates andSmt. Susheela and Shri.Nanjundaiah cash awardsto the rank holders. Dr. R.V.Raghavendra, Founder, AnanyaGML Cultural Organisation wasthe guest of honour.

Meghana PuttyDrawing & Painting

( II year)

Lakshmeesh R. BhatTabla

( I year)

Rakshith SrujanCarnatic Vocal

( II year)

Sushmita N.Key Board

( I year)

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KALA BHARATHI : TOPPERS : 2018

Dikshita JainHindustani Vocal

( I year)

Krithi. C.N.Kathak( I year)

Lineesha A.K.Carnatic Vocal

( II year)

K.T. PavithraBharatanatya

( II year)

Kanya MuthuswamyVeena

( I year)

Alisha K. BhattDrawing & Painting

( I year)

Susmit RoyTabla

( III year)

Honnappayya N. NayakKeyboard( IV year)

Adithya VaidyanathanMrudanga

( I year)

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The Cultural Outreach

program of Bharatiya VidyaBhavan-Infosys Foundationthat was launched in February2015 has seen immense successand has been extremely wellreceived all over India.

Notable programmeslike “The Umbrella paintingworkshop” , “KajaraMohabbatwala” , “Violin GaateTenhva”, “Felicitation andInterview “, “Geet Ramayan” ,“Swarbahar”, “Mangalagaurichekhel” and “Bhakti Rang” was

organized by the Pune Kendra( Maharashtra ).

Program on Folk Dancesof Rajasthan “Gulabo Rajasthanki” , “Desert Rytham” and“Sound of Desert”, a paintingworkshop “Monuments of Jaipur”was organized by the JaipurKendra (Rajasthan ).

“Loka Sangeet andMardala Vadan”, “SancharNrutya”, “Folk Song of WesternOdisha”, “Taming of the wild”,“Patent Medicine” and “DhumpaSangeet” was organized by theBhubaneshwar Kendra (Odisha)

BVB-INFOSYS FOUNDATION CULTURALOUTREACH PROGRAMMES : UPDATES

TheUmbrellapaintingworkshop

bySmt.AsmitaVedpathak and teamheld on

July 8th atPune

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“Patriotic songs by youngstudents”, a six day Musicfestival - programs like “DasaSinchana” “Vocal concert”,“Violin Duet” “Flute Duet ”“Nadhaswaram” , “Veenaconcert”, and “Bharatanatyam”was organized by the TrichyKendra (Tamil Nadu)

“Hindusthani Vocal &Santoor program”, “Kairali youthfestival” & “Qawwali” wasorganized by Kolkata Kendra(West Bengal/Agarthala)

MAHARASHTRA

Kajara Mohabbatwala waspresented by Mrs. Manini Gurajarand troupe on 13 July 2018.

Kajara Mohabbatwala by Smt.Manini Gurjar and team held on July 13th at Pune

Geet Ramayan by Sri.Vikram Pendharkar & team held on Aug 24th at Pune

Swarbahar presented by Surel on Sep 5th at Pune

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Bhakti Rang by Smt. Sujata Gurav and team held on Sep 21st at Pune

Mangalagaurichekhel

presented byManaswini

groupheld on

Sep 6th atPune

Violin Gaate Tenhva by Smt.Charusheela Gosavi and partyheld on Aug 10th at Pune

It was an all women musicalprogramme based on femaleduets in the old Hindi movies.

This silver jubilee programmereceived overwhelming responsefrom the public.

AudioVideo

presentationand

Felicitationfor K2L

expeditionheld on

Aug 12th atPune

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ODISHA

Loka Sangeet andMardala Vadan was presentedby Dr. Padmalaya Garabadu andtroupe on 2nd July 2018-. Thesefolk songs have been responsiblefor the popularity of Champu,Chaupadi (small poems),Chhanda (metre of a poem),Janana (Prayer), Bhajana (Hymn)and Kirtana (religious songs sungon streets). The unison of softword in Pallee Sangeet and itsmode of recitation entertained thelisteners. Dr. PadmalayaGarabadu, Dr. Sangeeta Gosain

and Sushree Sumitra Mahapatra(the three sisters) have contributedgreatly towards the popularity ofPallee Sangeet of Odisha.

Sanchar Nrutya waspresented by Sri. BhaktaramBhumia and troupe on 16th July2018 . The specialty of SancharNritya is the twist footed dancewith song, music and tala. The keymusical instrument of SancharNritya is Mridang. Sanchar Nrityaechoes the calm atmosphere ofsilent night by a combination ofsweet sound produced by theMridang, Cymbals and Ghungura.

SancharNrutya

by Shri.

BhaktaramBhumia &troupe held

onJul 16th

atBhubaneshwar

Loka Sangeet & Mardala Vadan by Dr.Padmalaya Garabadu & troupeheld on Jul 2nd at Bhubaneshwar

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This western Odisha folk Art isknown as another form ofUtkaliya Pala. Pala meanscarrier and signifies transporterof Literature and Culture incoastal enka of Odisha. SimilarlyDaskathi and Sanchar Nritya areconsidered as the main tools forthe spread of culture andliterature in South and Westernregion of Odisha respectively.

Sanchar Nritya is performedon the village roads duringmoonlight night. It is alsoperformed in dance groups onthe occasion of various yatra,Rasa Purnima and BhagabatParayam.

Folk Song of westernOdisha was presented by Shri.Nabin Kuanar and troupe on 6th

July 2018 . West Odisha has aunique place in the culturaltradition of Odisha. Diverse folksongs still exist in villages ofwestern Odisha. Amongst themwhich charm the audience mostare Rasarkeli, Sajani, Dalkhai,Jaiphoola etc. The core subjectsof western Odisha’s Folk songsare based on love, affection andtales of agony of marital life.

Taming of the wild waspresented by Doll theatre,Kolkata on 22nd July 2018 .Dolls Theatre of Kolkata isone of the most popular PuppetGroup of India. It was formed in1990 under the leadership ofSudip Gupta. This Puppet Theatredoes not use dialogues. He usesboth Hindustani and Western

Folk Songof western

Odishaby

Shri. NabinKuanar &

troupe held onAug 6th

atBhubaneshwar

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music. Occasionally he uses anintroductory voice over.TAMING OF THE WILD isextremely attractive for children,carrying valuable messages tothem. This group has performedover 1500 shows in India andabroad which includeInternational festivals atTehran, Israel and Spain.

Patent Medicine waspresented by Sanskruti Bihar on3rd September 2018. The PatentMedicine (Shreemati Samarjani)Opera has been written andcomposed by Odisha’s all timeLegendary Lyricist Late ShriAkshay Kumar Mohanty. It isbased on Patent Medicine writtenby Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan

Tamingof thewild by

Doll theatreheld on

Aug 22ndat

Bhubaneshwar

PatentMedicinepresented

bySanskruti

Biharheld onSep 3rd

atBhubaneshwar

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Senapati which has been rejoicedby the Odiya people for the last50 years. Vyasakabi’s PatentMedicine portrays wives usingbrooms on their drunkard andbrothel going husbands todiscipline them. At various stagesthis drama (Opera) has beenstaged thousands of times undervarious titles carrying a strongmessage to the audience of thehazards of alcoholism and drugaddiction.

Dhumpa Sangeet waspresented by Gadadhar DhumpaSangeet Parisad on 17th

September 2018. DhumpaSangeet of Khandapada is recitedduring rainy season, like therecitation of rain songs of NorthIndia. These songs are based onthe traditional love of Radha andKrishna. The core of DhumpaSangeet is a musical instrument

named Dhumpa. The musicproduced by this instrument isvery sweet and melodious; byhearing this the listener becomesecstatic instantaneously.

Dhumpa Sangeet is the songof rain and forest. This musicalinstrument Dhumpa wasintroduced by the Tribal in ancienttimes. Later its refined versionseems to have manifested in theprincely state of Khanda Padaand Baramba.

The framer of DhumpaSangeet prevalent in Khandapadawas Shri Gadadhar SinghaSamant the renowned son ofShri Pathani Samanta, MahamahaUpadhya the legendaryastronomer. The Dhumpa is madeup of the bark of Mohi orBhendia Mardan tree found inforests. In Dhumpa Sangeetharmonium, Mardal (drum),

Dhumpa Sangeet presented by Gadadhar Dhumpa Sangeet Parisadheld on Sep 17th at Bhubaneshwar

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flute and small cymbals are usedalong with the prime instrumentDhumpa.

TAMILNADU

Patriotic songs by youngstudents was presented on 15thAugust 2018. This excellentperformance included Villu pattu(songs with the traditional musicalinstrument). Children of dailywage laborers and auto driverscame dressed in different

costumes of National leaders andgave a brief introduction. Theyalso gave a presentation onSwachh Bharat and Road trafficsense.

Music Festival - DasaSinchana was presented byVidushi Gowri Sudha Muralion 26th August 2018 . Audienceenjoyed the melodiousprogramme that consisted ofPurandhara Dasa’s songs.

Patriotic songs by young students held on Aug 15th at Srirangam

Dasa Sinchana by Vidushi Gowri Sudha Murali held on Aug 26th at Srirangam

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Temple honor was offered toall the artists.

Violin Duet was presentedby Shri. N.C. Madhav andShri Lakshmi Narayanan on 28th

August 2018. It was a feast tothe ear of interested audienceconsisting of musicians, students,critics and general public.

Cold weather and drizzling rainmade the environment cool anda memorable music programme .Violinist Shri. N.C. Madhav andShri Lakshmi Narayananstarted the event with varnam.Gajavathana, Thugire Ranganain Thodi Ragam and KadhanuVariki will echo in the minds ofaudience.

Violin duet by Shri. N. C. Madhav and Shri Lakshmi Narayananheld on Aug 28, at Srirangam

Flute duet by Master Aniruth and Guru Shri Prapanjam Mukyaheld on Aug 29, at Srirangam

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Flute Duet was presentedby Master Aniruth and GuruPrapanjam on 29th August 2018 .Master Aniruth along with hisguru and father Shri.PrapanjamMukya Prana excelled in hisperformance. Together with hisfather, and he made the concertlively and divine.

Nadhaswaram waspresented by SrirangamHarikrishnan and Troupeon 30th August 2018.This Nadhaswaram concertwas appreciated by the audience;

Srirangam Harikrishnan playedcompositions in all languages.His expertise over the instrumentreflected in his style, which waswell supported by three thavilvidwans.

Veena concert waspresented by Smt.R.Senkamalamand Troupe on 31st August 2018.Smt.R.Senkamalam, an ‘A’ GradeVeena Artist of All India Radio,Trichy started the recital with abrisk Varnam in Ragam Sahana .Later she played Thodi Raagamelaborately and followed by a

Nadhaswaram by Srirangam Harikrishnan and troupe held on Aug 30, at Srirangam

Veenaconcert

bySmt.R.

Senkamalamand troupe

held onAug 31,

atSrirangam

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composition of Kadhanuvarki.She also rendered devotionalKeerthanas of Saint Thyagarajaand Purandaradasa.

Bharatanatyam byShri. Parshwanath andS.Upadheye was performedon1st September 2018.Paraswanath S. Upadheyea master not only inBharathanatyam, also acquiredmastery in Karate, Kalari,Rangoli, and classical dance.Eventually he did find his feet inBharathanatyam through his guru“Ravindra Sharma”. He hasperformed not only in India,but across the globe.

WEST BENGAL ANDAGARTHALA

Hindustani Vocal byShri.Arjun Roy and troupe andSantoor program by Shri. Dishariand troupe was held andHindustani Vocal was performedby Shri Arjun Roy, who startedthe programme with a lightclassical song based on differentragas and ended with a verymelodious Thumri. He wasaccompanied by Shri AmitChatterjee on Tabla and ShriSamir Jana on Harmonium.

Bharatanatyam by Shri. ParshwanathS. Upadheye held on Sep 1,

at Srirangam

The second program wasSantoor which was performedby Shri Dishari accompanied byShri Sumit Singharoy on theTabla. Both the programmesheld the audience captive.

Kairali youth festival byyoung talents was performed on29th July 2018 . There were morethan 300 artists performingvarious cultural art forms likeclassical music, folk songs,dances which includedMohiniyattam, Bharatnatyam,

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Tamil, Kerala, Gujrati andPunjabi Folk dances.

On 14th August 2018 aQawwali program was presentedby Shri.Santosh, Shri.Nizam andtroupe . Qawwali is a form of Sufidevotional music performed in theIndian sub continent. The word

Hindusthani Vocal by Shri.Arjun Roy and troupe held on July 14th at Kolkata

qawl is an Arabic word meaning“utterance”. The person whorepeats or sings a qawl is aqawwal. What a qawwal sings isqawwali. The program was acombination of various qawwalisperformed with informativeintroductions and explanationsinterspersed throughout.

Kairali youth festival by young talents held on July 29th at Kolkata

Qawwali by Shri.Santosh, Shri.Nizam and troupe held on August 14th at Kolkata

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Bharatiya Vidya BhavanBengaluru - 560 001.

Kalabharathi School of Visual and Performing Arts

Kalabharathi Cultural Programme

&

Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurti Memorial EndowmentMusic & Dance Festival

November 03, Saturday, 4.00 p.m. : Venue : KRG Hall

4.00 p.m. : Veena : Direction - Vidushi Mangala

5.00 p.m. : Hindustani Vocal : Direction - Vidushi Rajeshwari Bhat

6.00 p.m. : Key Board : Direction - Vidwan Prasanna Kumar

November 10, Saturday, at 5.00 p.m. : Venue : KRG5.00 p.m. : Violin : Direction - Vidwan Tarun

5.30 p.m. : Mridanga : Direction - Vidwan T.A.S. Mani

6.15 p.m. : Bharatanatya : Direction - Vidushi Snehasri

November 11, Sunday, at 10.00 a.m. : Venue : Khincha Hall10.00 a.m.: Carnatic Vocal : Direction - Vidushi H.V. Gayathri

11.00 a.m. : Flute : Direction - Vidushi Dwaraki Krishnaswamy

11.45 a.m. : Sugama Sangeetha : Direction - Vidwan Kasim Mallige Madav

Art Exhibition : Kalabharathi students will display their artwork on all the days at Khincha Hall(Timings: 10.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.) Direction : Smt. Insha Ummehani and Shri. Karthik

ALL ARE WELCOME

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Fri 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall02. Kathak recital :Sri. Naveen R. Hegde

Sat 11.00 a.m. - KRG Hall03 HB College ofCommunication and ManagementGolden Jubilee Celebration ofJournalism Course.Inauguration :Shri. G. N. Ranganatha RaoSenior JournalistChief Guest :Shri. SiddarajuPresident, KarnatakaMadhyama Academy

Sat 4.00 p.m. - KRG Hall03 Dr. Mathoor KrishnamurtiMemorial Endowment programmeKalabharathi students performance(more details pl. see page - 22)

Fri 6.00 p.m.

09 BVB -Infosys FoundationOutreach programme

Folk Music Sangeeta Sanje :

Venue : Pavada Sri BasaveshwaraDevara Math, Sonde Koppa Circle,Nelamangala.

Sat 5.00 p.m. - KRG Hall10 Dr. Mathoor KrishnamurtiMemorial Endowment programmeKalabharathi students performance(more details pl. see page - 22)

Sat 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall

10. Bharatanatya duet :

Ms. Archana and Ms.Chetana

PROGRAMME :MARCH - 2018PROGRAMME :

NOVEMBER - 2018

Sun 10.00 a.m. - KRG Hall11 Dr. Mathoor KrishnamurtiMemorial Endowment programmeKalabharathi students performance(more details pl. see page - 22)

Fri 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall16. Bharatanatya recital :Ms. Sinni Krishnamayuri

Sat 6.00 p.m. : Nupura -17 Shri. C BhemmappaChetty and Smt.RangammaEndowment :BharatanatyaRangapraveshaby Kum. Pranathi Sreeram Nagasai(Disciple of Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan)

Fri 6.30 p.m. - KRG Hall23. Tala Vadya Kacheri byShri. Sagar N. and Troupe

Sat 5.00 p.m.24 BVB -Infosys FoundationOutreach programmeCarnatic classical music byVocal : Vid. Rohith KalyanViolin : Vid. Anirudha BharadwajMridanga : Vid. K Vishnuvardhan6.00 p.m. : Bharatanatya recital :Ms. Vandana V.(Disciple of Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan)

Venue : Indiranagara SangeethaSabha, HAL 2nd Stage, Bengaluru

Fri 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall30. Kuchipudi recital :Sri. Basavaraja B Bellary

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