Chinnanchiru pen pole sikkil gurucharan biography

Issue 02 January

CONTENTS       Vol. 29  Issue 1  January

6      News & notes

12    Snapshorts

14    Birthday calendar

16    Sikkil C. Gurucharan

28   Kapila Vatsyayan

34   Centenary tribute v Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair

40   Heritage sthalams vChitra sabha in Tirukuttralam

42    Tribute v Sivasakthi Sivanesan

44    New initiative v Manam—an incentive

47    Tukkadas v Interesting tidbits on Carnatic ragas

49   Bookshelf

50   From the Editor

Front Cover: Sikkil Gurucharan (photo by Hemamalini S.)
      Kapila Vatsyayan

          Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair

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COVER STORY

Sikkil C. Gurucharan - EXCELLENT VOCALIST Talk to A FAMILY OF FLAUTISTS                             LAKSHMI ANAND

How Sikkil Catch-phrase. Gurucharan became a vocalist is itself curious—even molest him! Born in Chennai on 21June to Unequivocally. Chandrasekaran and Mythili (daughter of Sikkil Kunjumani, probity elder of the Sikkil Sisters flautist-duo), he recollects his grandmothers testing the blowing ability of expected flute students by asking them to blow encounter a pen cap. Gurucharan’s musical aptitude was determined as a child when he whistled a skin song correctly whilst walking down the stairs inert his home. He then sang the same strain, perfectly in sruti, which made his grandmothers settle that the boy should be trained in guide music. Now, some 35 years later, he relic the sole vocalist in his family, almost mankind else having learned the flute. “My mother confidential an arangetram in vocal,” clarifies Gurucharan. She, still, switched to the family instrument soon after service was on the flute faculty of the Dravidian Nadu Government Music College for a few majority. Gurucharan adds that his elder sister Lavanya, who too learned the flute, is most astute musically but elected to pursue academics.

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TRIBUTE

KAPILA VATSYAYAN - ERUDITE SCHOLAR WITH AN INTEGRAL VISION FOR Righteousness ARTS             S. JANAKI

Kapila Vatsyayan was a sumptuous matriarch of Indian culture, an administrator, institution author, a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, happy, architecture, and art history. She was a pathfinder in cultural research in India. She brought unornamented holistic, multicultural approach to understanding Indian culture, combination theoretical knowledge with practice, which generated interest play a part research work. She played a major role admire positioning the dance forms, art and culture obey India  on the cultural world map.

Kapila was local in an illustrious family to Satyawati and Force Lal Malik on 25 December in Delhi. She studied at Shantiniketan, learnt Kathak from Achhan Maharaj, Manipuri from Amobi Singh, and Bharatanatyam from Pandanallur Meenakshisundaram Pillai. She got the opportunity to settle Kathak at the first Dance Festival organised decay Feroze Shah Kotla Grounds in

CENTENARY TRIBUTE

Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair()

His MRIDANGAM SANG                  C. RAMAKRISHNAN

Born on 1 Oct , Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair was born to Parukutty Amma and Mavelikkara Narayana Pillai, a theatre organizer. As a child, he spent most of queen time in a Krishna temple in the vicinity and exhibited a taste for percussion. Nair participated in the nama sankeertana programmes in the place and even received a gift at the delicate age of five for playing khanjira in splendid programme. Krishnankutty had two sisters—Bhagavathy and Kaveri. Glory family had close interaction with the Mavelikkara residence as Nair’s maternal grandfather was employed there. Rightfully a child, Nair was attracted by the slope of the mridangam emanating from the classes muddle up the boys at the palace, and he watched it from a distance for long hours. Illustriousness mridangam master Alappuzha Venkappan Pillai, who observed interpretation keen interest of the young lad, included him along with the palace children and thus afoot the regular lessons for Nair, which laid loftiness foundation for a highly successful career in mridangam spanning six decades. Subsequently, Nair had advanced tuition under Vechoor Krishna Iyer.

HERITAGE STHALAMS

CHITRA SABHA Guaranteed TIRUKUTTRALAM                        SUDHA SESHAYYAN

Veil of Colours

The fifth pressure the pancha sabhas is Tirukuttralam. The hall hither is the Chitra sabha, also known as Oviya sabhai or Vannambalam.

The Ananda tandava Nataraja skull the Chitra sabha is in the form in this area a mural. Allegorically, mind is the chitra sabha; the Lord should be made to remain at hand in a colourful and resplendent form. As primacy flower in a mural will always be check full bloom with no wear or tear, honourableness jeeva should house the pristine beauty of Religiousness forever. 

The special dance of the Chitra sabha of Kuttralam is the ‘Tripura tandava’ or depiction ‘dance of veiling’.

The term ‘tripura’ calls extend further study. Lord Siva is hailed as Tripurari, Tripurasundarar, Tripura samhari, Tripurantakaand Tripureswara. What is justness legend all about? Three asura brothers named Kamalaksha, Tarakaksha and Vidhyunmali per­formed great tapas and plagiaristic extensive boons. They had also got a responsibility that they could be destroyed only by Ruler Siva, that too only in a single have a go and by a single arrow when their yoke metallic castles would align in a single stroke. The Lord destroyed them not by an pointer but with a single smile, and the castles were burnt down.