Bharathi Kala Manram, Canada presents a forum for cultural and social interaction with special emphasis on fine arts, literature & performing arts of Tamil speaking people from India.
Here’s a quick introduction of the artists performing at “Carnatic Kutcheri” organized by Bharathi Kala Manram.
Kum. Lavanya Sundararaman
The artist is the 4th generation musician in the DKP Parampara. She is the great granddaughter of Gana Saraswathi D K Pattammal and Mridanga Chakravarthi Palghat Sri T S Mani Iyer. She had the fortune of learning from her legendary great grandmother. She is now under the able guidance and tutelage of her grandmother Smt Lalitha Sivakumar and her aunt Smt Nithyasree Mahadevan, needless to mention about her mother Smt Gayathri SundaraRaman. She has recorded for many TV channels in India including Doordarshan, Zee Tamil, Sankara TV, Mega TV, Raj TV, Kalaingnar TV, etc She also appeared as a special guest artist in the famous Super Singer Junior 2 conducted by Vijay TV.
Prashanth Gururaja grew up in New Jersey, where he learned Carnatic violin under Mysore Sateesh, Ganesh Kumar, and Anantha Krishnan. He performs frequently in classical concerts with local and international artists around Northeast USA, Michigan, and Toronto. He also regularly performs in Carnatic and world music ensembles around Detroit/Ann Arbor. He has continued his Carnatic training under Jayshankar Balan in Detroit. Prashanth currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from the University of Michigan and works as an engineer at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Sri. Mayuran Manogaran
The artist is a senior disciple of Toronto B.Gowrishankar and is a graduate of the mridangam school Laya Madhura. He has completed his arangetram and is playing in many concerts for both local and visiting artists. He has performed at the Cleveland Aradhana and in Manram concerts.
MARG offers wholehearted tribute to the performing artists and welcomes all Canada based Tamilians and music enthusiasts to attend the concert in large numbers
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The most notable accomplishment of the TNF has been the building of the TNF Technology Center at No.27 Taylor’s Road, Kilpauk, Chennai-10. The well-furnished office at the Center has a conference room, a library with various titles (computer related) and a number of educational CDs besides two classrooms and two computer labs. The center will very soon have an electronic library and friendly, well-trained personnel to assist all those who need help in the area of technology transfer, information of patents, patent searchers, technical information etc. The purpose of the Center is to supervise the execution of the TNF projects in Tamil Nadu and to provide students and other community members’ access to information technology and its benefits. The TNF Center is not playing a key role in disseminating computer education to those who are economically weak.
The successful implementation of this dream project of all NRI Tamils owes a lot to former TNF Presidents, Dr. A.M.Rajendran (1990-92), Dr. C.K.Mohanam (1992-94) and Mr. Ram. Mr. P. Thukkaram, who volunteered to serve as the co-coordinator of the TNF Center Projects. In fact, Mr. Thukkaram has generously donated close to three-fourths of the construction of the first phase of the TNF Center. Thanks are also due to Mr.Justice P.Venugopal, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the TNF chapter Trust(1990-96) and to all other Trustees, namely, Dr. M.Anandakrishnan, Prof. Arcot Gajaraj, Mr. S.Davamani and Prof. G.Ayyasami, who were ably assisted by the Secretary Mr. P.Chandrasekaran.
The TNF Center in Chennai will also serve as an extension of the TNF Inc. of the USA and be a focal point of International Tamil scholars, technocrats, scientists and other professionals to enrich Tamil Nadu, its people and language in countless number of ways.
Practically every Carnatic music concert in Toronto by the visiting artists over the past 30 years has been organised by Manram. Manram has assisted other centers like Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton to hold these concerts in their organizations.
In the early days, Manram started and maintained language classes in Tamil and Telugu and launched the heritage language classes with the School Boards.
It has the prestige of being the first Organization to start the traditional Thyagaraja Music Festival in cooperation with York University back in 1973. Now the Festival is being celebrated in more than 20 cities in North America along the format developed by Manram.
Manram has initiated a scholarship scheme – Thyagaraja Music Scholarships -at York University, whereby 2 annual scholarships of $750 each, awarded to York University students of Indian Music. Manram encourages the learning of carnatic music and dance by collaborating with the teachers and providing platforms for the students to perform in various Manram Events.
Manram was the first to bring Tamil movies from India, in an organized way, circulated in North America to satisfy the needs of the movie fans. Now, even in the days of daily shows of Tamil movies in regular theatres, the members get exclusive showings of first run Tamil movies throughout the year.
Manram functions as the meeting and ‘networking’ forum for the newcomers to settle down smoothly without losing touch with the ‘home’ cultural traditions. It is the leading Indian Cultural organization in Canada with over 35 years of excellent record of community service.
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Bharathi Kala Manram, Canada presents a forum for cultural and social interaction with special emphasis on fine arts, literature & performing arts of Tamil speaking people from India.
