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Kartik Fine Arts Awards
The 25th Tamil Isai Vizha of Kartik Fine Arts was inaugurated at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore on 26 December 2022 by arts patron Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti.
Senior
violinist R.K. Shriramkumar received the Tamil Isai Vendhar award and up and
coming vocalists V. Deepika and V. Nandika were presented the Isai Chudar award.
Sangita
Kalanidhi Aruna Sairam was the special guest on this occasion. K. M.
Narasimhan, President, Kartik Fine Arts presided, and Vice-President S. N.
Srikanth and Secretary R. Sekar were also present.
The sabha presented
endowment awards to Thirubhuvanam G.Athmanathan (vocal), Guru Raghavendra
(mridangam), Karaikal S.Venkatasubramanian (violin), L. Saraswathi (music
teacher), Sukanya Ramgopal (ghatam), Nerkunam S.Manikandan (morsing), M. A.
Venkatakrishnan (scholar-writer), T. K. Ranganatha Bhattacharyar (tavil), Madan
Mohan (violin), Chidambaram B.Saishankar and Abishek Ravishankar (vocal).