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Sandhya Raju
Byrraju Sandhya Raju (born as Sri Sandhya Raja) is an Indian Kuchipudi dancer and actress. She is a student of Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam, Chennai at Kuchipudi Art Academy. She made her acting debut in the 2013 Hindi short film ''Yaadhon Ki Baraat'' and feature film debut in the 2017 Malayalam thriller film titled ''Careful'', which came shortly after her appearance in a short film titled ''Natyam'' (2016) which released on International Dance Day. She is the eldest child of Ramco Industries Chairman P. R. Venkatrama Raja and married Rama Raju, son of the businessman Ramalinga Raju. She founded Nishrinkala Dance Academy to impart her Guru's Kuchipudi to the next generation. She is the managing director of Sandhya Spinning Mills which is a part of the Ramco Group of Industries. Early life Raju completed her primary education at Krishnamurti Foundation's The School KFI Chennai, her high school in Bala Vidya Mandir, Chennai and studied briefly at Loyola College, Chennai and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the List of urban areas by population, 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras Music Academy
Madras Music Academy is one of the earliest established music academies in South India. Before the concept of infrastructure was introduced to India in the early 1920s, it was a gathering for elite musicians simply called (and is still more commonly referred to as) Music Academy () It plays an important role in encouraging and promoting primarily the Carnatic Music Indian art form. It played a vital role in the revival of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam in the 1930s when it faced near extinction due to a negative connotation caused by conservative societal standards. They also run a music school called the Teachers college of Carnatic Music which has many eminent musicians on its faculty. Musicians such as Tiger Varadachariar, Appa Iyer, Valadi Krishnaiyer and Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer adorned the chair of Principal of the Teacher's College. History In 1927, the Indian National Congress held the All India Music Conference in Madras. At the end of the con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Film Actresses
Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India * Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent * East Indians, a Christian community in India Europe * British Indians, British people of Indian origin The Americas * Indo-Canadians, Canadian people of Indian origin * Indian Americans, American people of Indian origin * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America ** Native Americans in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses In Malayalam Cinema
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses In Telugu Cinema
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Female Dancers
Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India * Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent * East Indians, a Christian community in India Europe * British Indians, British people of Indian origin The Americas * Indo-Canadians, Canadian people of Indian origin * Indian Americans, American people of Indian origin * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America ** Native Americans in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuchipudi Exponents
Kuchipudi () ( Telugu: ) is one of the eight major Indian classical dances. It originates from a village named Kuchipudi in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of Natya Shastra. It developed as a religious art linked to traveling bards, temples and spiritual beliefs, like all major classical dances of India. Evidence of Kuchipudi's existence in an older version are found in copper inscriptions of the 10th century, and by the 15th century in texts such as the ''Machupalli Kaifat''. Kuchipudi tradition holds that Tirtha Narayana Yati – a sanyassin of Advaita Vedanta persuasion,Krishna Chaitanya (1987), "Arts of India.", pages.74 and his disciple, an orphan named Siddhendra Yogi, founded and systematized the modern version of Kuchipudi in the 17th century. Kuchipudi largely developed as a Krishna-oriented Vaishnavism tradition, and it is known by the name of Bhagavata Mela in Thanjavur. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Ramco Cements
The Ramco Cements Limited (formerly Madras Cements Limited) is a part of the Ramco Group with headquarters in Chennai, India. Ramco Cements has 5 Integrated Cement manufacturing units, 6 grinding units, and 1 Packing terminal across India. The company also produces Ready-Mix Concrete(RMC) and Dry Mortar products. The company has a Research Centre (Ramco Research & Development Centre) in Chennai and operates wind farms in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Operations Cement The company's main product is Portland cement, manufactured in eleven production facilities that include Integrated Cement plants and Grinding units with a current total production capacity of 21 MTPA. It manufactures and markets Ordinary Portland Cements (OPC) and Blended Cements (PPC). The company has Integrated Cement plants at # Alathiyur (in Tamil Nadu) # Ariyalur (in Tamil Nadu) # Kolimigundla (in Andhra Pradesh) # Jayanthipuram, Jaggayyapeta (in Andhra Pradesh) # Virudhunagar (in Tamil Nadu) Grinding u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devasthanam (film)
''Devasthanam'' () is a 2012 Indian Telugu-language musical drama film directed by Janardhana Maharshi. It stars S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Aamani and K. Viswanath. Plot Srimannarayana is a trustee of a local Hindu temple in Chittoor who helps and loves everyone, addressing all as "bangaru" (, used as an affectionate nickname in Telugu culture), and treats the temple as his home. He regularly clarifies the philosophical doubts of a young girl (Niharika) who regularly visits the temple. One day he happens to see an orphan whose dead body is left on the street and is them cremated with garbage in an incinerator. That incident shatters his peace and he starts panicking about how will he be cremated as he is an orphan too. On the other hand, Samba Murthy is a middle aged man who is a cunning salesman in a big saree store. He leads a simple but happy life with his wife Saraswathi. The couple love each other and live happily even though they have no children, with Samba Murthy in pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narada Gana Sabha
Narada Gana Sabha is one of the foremost music associations in the city of Chennai, India. It regularly organises programmes during the Chennai Music Season. History The Narada Gana Sabha was founded on 9 February 1958, in Mylapore. After functioning for three years from V. M. Street in Mylapore, the Sabha moved to Music Academy Hall. In 1972, the Sabha acquired land in T. T. K. Road where it constructed its own hall in February 1988. Activities The sabha regularly conducts music, dance and drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ... programmes during the annual Chennai Music Season. It also conducts an annual festival of its own. Notes {{reflist Organisations based in Chennai Indian music Music organisations based in India 1958 establishments in Madra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Centre For The Performing Arts (India)
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is a multi-venue, multi-purpose cultural centre in Mumbai, India, which aims to promote and preserve India's heritage of music, dance, theatre, film, literature and photography. It also presents new and innovative work in the performing arts field. The centre was founded in 1969 by JRD Tata and Dr. Jamshed Bhabha, (brother of nuclear physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha). The NCPA is also the home of the Symphony Orchestra of India, which was established by NCPA in 2006. In 2010 the orchestra performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Moscow at the 5th World Symphony Orchestra Festival - the first time an orchestra from India had performed there. On 29 December 2018 NCPA entered its golden jubilee year. It is to undergo renovations to improve the acoustics and overall experience in 2019. Principal aims and objectives * To establish a national centre for the ''preservation and promotion'' of classical, traditional and contemporary perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
