Vol.16 No. 4 April - 2016

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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

Dollukunitha by theartists of

Sri Jaikisan Cultural

&

Folk Kala Sanghaduring the

Pallakki Utsava of

Lord Someshwara

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A view of the Pallakki Utsava procession

at Lakshmeshwar

Ladies participate with holy kalash during the

Pallakki Utsava

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TRILOCHANA presented different forms of

Indian classical dance recital : Bharatanatya : Ms. Divya Ravi,Odissi : Ms.Vandana Supriya, Kathak : Ms. Mridula Rao .

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

11.30 a.m. : Panel Discussion :

Dr. Chiranjeev Singh

Former Ambassador to UNESCO

Pujya Swamiji Shanthamayanandaji, Ramakrishna Math, Bengaluru2.00 p.m. : Panel Discussion :

Prof. Yejazuddin Ashrafi

Retd. Professor and Former MLC

Fr.Eugene Lobo S.J.

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

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April - 2016