Info on these artists

[ruhi_1974]

Greetings.

I am preparing a note on Gurus. I have not found information of the following gurus anywhere. Can anyone please help me?

The list is as follows:

1. Melathur Venkata Ramashastry
2. Mooguru Jejamma
3. Yajamaan Kitanna
4. Sadashiva Natuvanar
5. Dharmapuri Subramayyar
6. Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai
7. Bala Saraswathi
8. Uday shankar

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ruhi

[srinivasrgvn]

About Yajamaan Kittanna:
http://www.kaishiki-natyavahini.org/menu/mentors.html

I think you meant Dharmapuri Subbarayar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmapuri_Subbarayar
http://www.hummaa.com/music/artist/9552 ... Subbarayar
http://www.carnatica.net/composer/dharmapuri.htm

I don't know which Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai you were referring to. But here are the links:

T.P. Meenakshi Sundaram:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tpmeena.html

Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai:
http://www.esnips.com/web/Meenakshi-sun ... ollections
http://onlinebharatanatyam.com/2007/12/ ... m-dancers/
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/kalakshetra.html

Balasaraswathi:
http://www.hummaa.com/music/artist/1277 ... wathi+Devi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balasaraswati

Who is Uday Shankar? There are way too many people with that name. So, please specify.

[sridhar_ranga]

Since the name immediately followed Balasaraswathi in Ruhi's list, my guess is she is referring to the famous dance maestro Uday Shankar....he was also the brother of sitar maestro pandit Ravi Shankar. There is tons of material on Uday Shankar on the internet & I guess many books have been written on him.

Kalki had written about an instance when Uday Shankar had sponsored a private dance program by Balasaraswathi spending just a few hundreds & and how in his opinion Uday would profit by a few lakhs using the ideas learnt. One of these days I will post a translation of that article in the Kalki thread.

[ruhi_1974]

Thanks a ton!!
Ruhi

[Lakshman]

Dancer Uday Shankar was the brother of the famous sitarist Ravi Shankar.