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Updates / additions to the site in 2023

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Madras December Music / Dance Season

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CURRENT NEWS
THT Indology Festival 2023, "Sagara Sangamam: India and the Sea"  - June 5th to 11th, 2023... Read more

Aquaterra - Signature Trips Summer 2023

Fouteenth Kalasagar awards...Read more

Tamil Heritage Trust - The Vidyashankara Temple at Sringeri by Dr Purnima Srikrishna on May 6, 2023,5.30 pm IST - on-line talk in English...Read more

Tamil Heritage Trust - "The Influence of Copper Age Images on Gupta Era Icons" - On-line Talk in English on April 2, 2023, 5.30 pm IST ...Read more

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CPA - Saz-e-Bahar: Festival of Indian Instrumental Music - 15-15 Apr 2023...Read more

Neokalari, an organisation founded by Lavanyaa and Gladston, specialises in promoting and practicing the traditional martial art forms Kalaripayattu and Silambam...Read more

Oscars 2023: Indian film The Elephant Whisperers wins Academy Award for Best Documentary Short & RRR's 'Naatu Naatu' wins Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards

NCPA - Living Traditions: Festival of Madhya Pradesh 10 - 11 March 2023, 6:30 pm at Experimental Theatre....Read more

Tamil Heritage Trust - Talk in English on March 4, 2023  - "The Art of Gandhara: Where the Greco-Roman Meets the Indian" by Dr Vinay Kumar...Read more

Arts, artists are carriers of culture: Murmu at Sangeet Natak Akademi awards

NCPA - Guru in Residence - 14-16 March 2023...Read more

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) - In His Own Right: The Life and Work of Maneklal Gajjar, Block Maker and Master Craftsman, An exhibition curated by Mala Pradeep Sinha and Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan...Read more

Padma Awards 2023

Tamil Heritage Trust - "Kashi: India's Eternal City" - Talk by Prof Rana P B Singh - the importance of Kashi in India's sacred geography, some of the sacred routes followed by pilgrims in different contexts and their symbolic meaning.  Talk in English on February 4, 2023, 5.30 pm IST...Read more

Amrit Yuva Kalotsav...Read more

NCPA - Bhakti in Indian Music Traditions - Seminar - Jan 21 & 22, 2023 ....Read more

The third concert of the Citi-NCPA Aadi Anant festival of Indian music featuring the mother-son duo of Bombay Jayashri Ramnath and Amrit Ramnath
- a specially curated repertoire spanning an array of forms of Indian music. 7 Jan 2023, 6.30pm at TATA Theatre, NCPA....Read more

Awakenings - Concert by Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena) and Anil Srinivasan (Piano) at Rukmani Arangam, Kalakshetra presented by Dr. Anita Ratnam, Arangham Trust.
At 9.30am on 1st January 2023....Read more

Dharshana Bajaj's latest collection of paintings Titled “Enchanted Realms” inspired by the concept of living in harmony with Nature. Exhibition at the Dakshina Chitra Museum’s Kadambari Art Gallery from January 22, 2023 to February February 3, 2023....Read more

23rd Annual New York Indian Film Festival will be held in April 2023...Read more


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Designs / Patterns
Digital Mandala designs

2Jun 2023
Sharing some causal coloured digital mandala designs that turned out into interesting patterns
Digital Mandala designs

25May 2023
Printed and coloured the mandala designs


7 designs sketched using the same base pattern
 

21 May 2023


16 May 2023


8 May 2023
Mandala Designs

Apr 2023
Mandala Designs

4 Jan 2023
Kalamkari digital designs
Mandala Designs


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Slokams
7 Mar 2023
Ganesha ashtotram
Ganesha Potri



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Old Tamizh Film songs - Lyrics
Jun 2023
Aani muthu vaangi vandhen - Bama Vijayam (1967)
May 2023
Paramasivan kazhuthil irundhu - Suryagandhi (1973)
Mar 2023
paattu paadavaa - Then Nilavu (1961)
pennalla nee oru bommai - Sonthamadi Nee Enakku (1977)
Aairathil oruthiyamma - Kai kodutha Deivam (1964)
Sindhu nadhiyin misai - Kai kodutha Deivam (1964)
Jan 2023
amudhum thenum edharku - Thai pirandhaal vazhi pirakkum (1958)
nerangketta nerathile... nenachadhu onnu - Thai pirandhal vazhi pirakkum (1958)
Thai porandhaa vazhi porakkum - Thai pirandhal vazhi pirakum (1958)
nalla perai vaanga vendum - Nam Naadu (1969)