Navaneethakrishnan have co-authored eleven books on different subjects related to the field.
She has given thirty talks over the radio on folk art and music. Kotravai, Tamil writer and Activist was awarded the Vinayaka Mission’s Inspirational Woman award. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan was conferred the Vinayaka Mission’s Woman Excellence award by the honourable Chancellor Dr. She has recently been honored with fourth highest civilian award in India Padmashri by the Government of India. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan has published twenty three articles on folk art. As a part of honouring women achievers, Padmashree Dr. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan is a Tamil folk singer and composer and a renowned exponent of Tamil folk art. Apart from spiritual aspect, even personal habits. 'Every aspect of our ancient culture has its own objective.
They also plan to compile an encyclopaedia of Tamil folk art.ĭr. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan, a professor in the Department of Folk Arts at the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) says The traditions and ethics set by our forefathers have positive values like humaneness, love, brotherhood and discipline. Having recorded more than 10,000 audio cassettes of authentic folk music, the couple are now working towards classifying this extensive collection to generate a Tamil folk music grammar and guide. The couple have brought out several albums of authentic Tamil folk music. Along with their troupe, they conduct performances that are sought after by connoisseurs and lovers of Tamil folk music around the world. The Government of India has announced Padma Shri, the nation’s fourth highest civilian award, for the year 2018 to the singer for her extraordinary contribution in her field.Īfter retiring as professors in the Department of Folk Arts and Culture from the Madurai Kamaraj University, the couple continue their studies on folk art and culture. Navaneethakrishnan, she has conducted several years of research and study on Tamil folk music and dances and devoted a lifetime to research, collection, revival, and documentation of ancient Tamil folk songs and dances, many of which are fast becoming obsolete. The lines ‘Dāmyata Datta Dayadhvaṃ’ refer to the famous parable from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that TS Eliot evoked in The Wasteland as ‘What the Thunder Said’, a message for humanity to cultivate restraint, be kind and compassionate to all, words to reflect and live by in present times.Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan is a Tamil folk singer and composer and a renowned exponent of Tamil folk art. Here is a Sanskrit verse that MS rendered at the United Nations which calls for international friendship, peace and harmony, with a blessing of happiness, health and prosperity for all the peoples of the world. MS’s repertoire of Carnatic music, especially from concerts in her prime days is divine, transporting the listener at once to a higher plane of existence. Over the years, reading real history has heightened my awareness of some of her music – historians say that the Meera bhajans she popularised in the south are as fake as the songs of Andal, fabricated along with the concept of Bhakti which kept people trapped in the delusion of God as an external entity, when Sanatana Dharma has always been about Shraddha – focus and awareness of the divine in one’s own self which can be realised in many ways including through the practise and appreciation of the fine arts. I listened to the two hour concert, and then to old favourites among her many hymns and chants that were an integral part of my childhood, and just like that, found myself healed and whole again. Then yesterday night I saw a Youtube recommendation of an old UN concert by MS Subbulakshmi, my favorite singer of all time. I then tried reading commercial fiction – popular thrillers and page-turners that hold the interest for a few hours and tend to dissappear from the memory as though they were never read, while literary fiction once read becomes a part of one’s thoughts, and life. I found myself turning increasingly towards escapist reading but the anxiety attacks could no longer be assuaged even by the warmth of Eva Ibbotson’s children’s novels. On a positive note, I was glad to see a writer/historian whose books I enjoy reading, triumph his battle with the virus. The news mentions brewing cyclonic storms, genocides within the country and wars in foreign lands. A dear friend from Spain lost his brother not to the pandemic but to suicide, a cousin’s wife lost her parents – a hearty, warm couple who passed of old age within a few months of each other. The question comes up on the blank page before one can begin to type, what is the purpose of it all? Many of my friends have been affected deeply by the pandemic, a few are fighting the virus as I type these lines. It is tough dealing with anxiety attacks amidst the constant reminders about the uncertainty of human life that arise in present times.
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