Vol.16 No. 4 April - 2016 BOOK POST INFOSYS FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE ART AND CULTURE ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN I nfosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, recently announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB), to hold cultural activities in various states across the country. As part of the MoU, the Infosys Foundation has made Dr. Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation, Sri. H.N. Suresh, Director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, exchanging the MoU. Ms. Shruthkeerthi Khurana, Director, Programs, Infosys Foundation joins
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Vol.16 No. 4 April - 2016
BOOK POST
INFOSYS FOUNDATION TO PROMOTEART AND CULTURE ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN
Infosys Foundation, the
philanthropic arm of Infosys,recently announced that it hassigned a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) with
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB),to hold cultural activities in variousstates across the country.
As part of the MoU, theInfosys Foundation has made
Dr. SudhaMurty,
Chairperson,Infosys
Foundation,Sri. H.N.Suresh,
Director,Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan,exchanging
the MoU.Ms.
ShruthkeerthiKhurana,Director,
Programs,Infosys
Foundationjoins
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a grant of INR 7.5 crore towardsthe creation of corpus that will beused to promote indigenous artswhich includes music and danceof various genres, folk arts andforms, theatre, visual arts and rareand dying arts.
The corpus will be calledthe “Infosys FoundationEndowment Fund”, and will beused to promote and encourageart and culture in 11 statesincluding Maharashtra, Odisha,Rajasthan, Kerala, Gujarat,Andhra Pradesh andTelengana. The entire projectwill be managed and monitoredby BVB, Bengaluru, and BVBcentres and schools across thesestates will coordinate and managethese events.
This initiative is a keymilestone in the relationshipbetween the InfosysFoundation and BVB, whohave been working on severaljoint projects over the past twodecades.
As an experiment tointroduce the arts to the commonman, Infosys Foundation andBVB, Bengaluru, started the“Infosys Foundation-BVBOutreach Program” in February2015.
The program provided scoresof budding artistes an opportunityto showcase their talent and wasrun across the country fromTiruchi in Tamil Nadu toAgartala in distant Tripura.
The objective of theproject sponsored by the“Infosys Foundation EndowmentFund” is envisaged to preserveIndian art forms in their originalformat. With the onslaught ofelectronic media, traditionalIndian arts have lost their appeal,particularly with the youth.Exposing youngsters to these artsis as much an objective of thisprogram as is giving them an
INFOSYSFOUNDATIONENDOWMENTFUND
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opportunity to pursue the arts byproviding them a much-neededplatform to perform. This idea isto kindle the interest of youngminds in Indian performing andvisual arts, and carry it forwardfrom there.
The program will helpencourage new talent,especially among theweaker sections of society.
The Infosys Foundation hasundertaken several programs tonurture and preserve Indian artand culture, with a strong focuson the conservation of neglected
BHAVAN-INFOSYS FOUNDATIONPROGRAMME ATINDIAN INSTITUTE OF WORLD CULTURE,
BASAVANAGUDI, ON MAR 11, 2016
arts and promoting artist(e)sfrom rural areas and thosefrom underprivileged back-grounds. This is in keepingwith the core belief system ofthe Foundation that efforts at thegrassroots level alone will helpleave a lasting legacy of arts forfuture – generations.
Flute Recital by Vidwan Sridhar Jujar,Tabla : Vidwan Keshav Joshi
THE PROGRAM WILLHELP ENCOURAGENEW TALENT,ESPECIALLYAMONG THE WEAKERSECTIONS OF SOCIETY
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Saxophoneconcert by
Vid. SridharSagar,Violin :
Vid.
B. S.Madhusudan,Mridanga :
Vid. R.Ganesh,Tabla :
Vid.Nagabhushan
Dr. SudhaMurty,
Chairperson,Infosys
Foundationinaugurates
InfosysFoundationLakshmeshwar
Utsava
by
offeringarathi to the
Pallakki.
INFOSYS FOUNDATIONLAKSHMESHWAR UTSAVA : A MEMORABLE
EVENT MARCH 12, 13 & 14, 2016
Infosys Foundation presented
a three-day unique festival inassociation with the BharatiyaVidya Bhavan at Lakshmeshwar.Over 17 events were presented
during this festival. Words fail toexpress its impact.
Here below we are presentingan Album of select visuals, whichspeaks for itself.
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Hindustani Vocal Concert by Vidushi. Mowna Ramachandra,Tabla : Pt. Sridhar Mandre, Harmonium : Dr. Panchaksharaiah Hiremath
Bharatanatya by Vid. Smt. Rekha Ashok Hegde & troupe,
of Shantala Natyalaya, Belgaum.
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SitarJugalbandiby UstadRafique
Khan andUstad
ShafiqueKhan,Tabla :
Pt.UdayrajKarpur
Sugama Sangeetha by Vid. Srikanth Kulkarni, Vid. Mathura Dixit,Vid. Apoorva Grampurohit, Vid. Anil Desai.Violin : Sri Vadiraj Nimbargi,
Tabla : Sri Sridhar MandreFlute : Sri Nagaraj HegdeKey Board : Sri Ashwin Walavalkar
Hindustani–Carnatic Vocal Jugalbandi :Hindustani Vocal : Pt. Vinayak Torvi , Tabla : Pt. Rajendra Nakod,
Harmonium : Pt. Sudhanshu Kulkarni, Carnatic Vocal : Vid. S. ShankarMridanga : Vid. B.R. Srinivas, Violin : Vidushi Charulatha Ramanujan,
Tanpura : Sri. Siddharth
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Sri Ajay Vishwanath & Smt. Chitra Aravind
‘Mahanata Mahadeva’ -presented by NUPURASchool of Bharatanatya
Direction :Dr. Lalitha Srinivasan
Smt.Usha Dinakar
Smt.Srividya
Smt. SumaKrishnamurthy
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Lakshmeshwara Utsav : 2016
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Lakshmeshwara Utsav : 2016
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BansuriRecital
byPt. Sameer
Rao,Sri.
KrishnaJoshi,Tabla:
Pt.Rajendra
Nakod
HindustaniVocal recital
by Pt. D. Kumar
DasTabla :
Pt. KeshavJoshi
Harmonium :Pt.
GuruprasadHegde
‘TANDAVA’
presented
Bharatanatya seenin the
picture are :
Sri NidhagaKarunada,
Sri C. Somashekar,
Sri Karthik S. Datar
&
Sri Ananth Nagaraj
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Hindustani Vocal Concert by
Pt. Venkatesh Kumar, Padma Sri awardee
Tabla : Pt. Keshav Joshi
Harmonium : Pt. Guruprasad Hegde
Tanpura : Kum. Aishwarya Desai and Sri. Jaithirth
Parinithi Kala Kendra, Sagar, presented
Bharatanatya recital
Direction : Shri M. Gopal
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‘Sati Parvathi’Bharatanatya Nrithya
Roopaka :Vidushi Sahana Bhatand troupe, Hubballi
Artists with their worksmade by them during the art camp
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Seated from left to right: Dr.Vijayalakshmi,SmtSusheelaSubrahmanya Chief Editor, Southern Economist,
Sri. H N Suresh, Director Bhavan’s Bangalore Kendra, Sri.N. Ramanuja Chairman, Bhavan’s Bangalore Kendra& M.P.
Birla Institute of Management and Dr. N S ViswanathDirector & Principal, M.P. Birla Institute of Management.
SYMPOSIUM ONGLOBAL ETHICSAND BUSINESS
A symposium on Global
Ethics and Business was held at
Bhavan’s MPBIM, Bangalore on
4th March 2016. Sri. N Ramanuja
Chairman Bangalore Kendra and
MPBIM inaugurated the event and
delivered the keynote address.
The symposium featured over
eight scholarly papers from other
B Schools of Bangalore and
MPBIM and was attended by
faculty of several management
institutions in Bangalore and
representatives from the Industry.
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BHAVAN-INFOSYS FOUNDATIONOUTREACH CULTURAL PROGRAMME ATSEVASADANA, MALLESHWARAM ON FEB 27, 2016.
1. Kathak by Poorna Acharya
2. Bharatanatya by Sukruti Ananth
3. Bharathanatya by Raghunandan
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BHAVAN-INFOSYS FOUNDATIONOUTREACH CULTURAL PROGRAMME ATSEVASADANA, MALLESHWARAM ON FEB 28, 2016.
1. Odissi by Vandana
2. Bharatanatyam by Ritwika Ghosh
3. Bharatanatyam by Aparna Menon
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PROGRAMME :APRIL - 2016
Sat 6.30 p.m. - Khincha Hall09. Horizon series -Tala Tarangini :Percussion EnsembleVocal : Smt. R.A. RamamaniBansuri : Sri Sameer RaoMridangam : Sri TN RameshGhatam : Sri Raghavendra PrakashRhythm Pads : Sri Karthik ManiTabla : Sri Adarsh Shenoy(in association with IndianCouncil for Cultural Relations)
Fri 6.00 p.m.
15. Devotional Music :BVB Infosys Foundation
100th Cultural programmeunder the direction ofVidushi Vani Sathish
(in association with InfosysFoundation)
Venue : Indian Institute of WorldCulture, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru
Wed 6.00 p.m. - Khincha Hall17. Rangapravesha ofKum. Rakshitha BabuDisciple of Vidhushi Smt. H. HariniChief Guests :Dr. R.V. RaghavendraAnanya GML Cultural AcademyKarnataka KalashreeDr. M. Surya Prasad,Internationally Renowned Art CriticNrutya Guru Jyothi Pattabhi RamKarnataka Kalashree State Awardee
Fri 5.00 p.m.
22. BVB and Rotary Indiranagar,Bangalore presents :Peace ConferenceInauguration :Chanting on Peace Mantras bySri Rajagopala Sharma Ghanapaati& Group,Narration byShatavadhani Dr. R GaneshViolin concert onthe theme of peace byVid.Aneesh VidyashankarVenue : Chowdaiah Memorial hallBangalore
Sat 10.30 a.m. - Khincha Hall23. Chanting of Peace Mantrasby Prof. M. N. Chandrashekarand group11.00 a.m. : Talk on‘Yoga and Meditation’ by Dr. Omkar
3.30 p.m. : Music concert onthe theme of Peace byDr. T S Satyavathi and troupe5.00 p.m. : Ballet Dance on the theme ofpeace bySmt. Subhashini Vasanth and troupe