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As
founder-chairman of ART INDIA, Rajan
has been organising festivals of music and dance, exhibitions, seminars
etc. since the past two decades. Monsoon
Festival is an annual festival which normally takes place in June. To
know more about Monsoon Festival please click here or on the image on left. |
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Rajan
launched ART INDIA and www.artindia.net
as his humble contribution to the world of Indian performing arts. |
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Outstanding
exponents of Bharata Natyam and gurus, VP Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan
have always supported Rajan's initiatives and activities. Besides them RAJAN
recieved constant encouragement and support from Late Rukmini Devi Arundale,
Late Dr. VK Narayana Menon, Late Sankara Menon, Late K Srinivasulu, Late
Dr. Raghava R Menon, PV Krishnamurthy, TV Gopalakrishnan, Guruvayur Dorai
and many others. |
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GS
RAJAN with his wife Anjana Rajan. Anjana is a disciple of Rukmini Devi
Arundale and an exponent of Bharata Natyam. Besides doing conerts she also
works as the Senior Sub-Editor with The Hindu, national daily. This photograph
was taken by The Hindustan Times when they published an article on Rajan's
contribution through www.artindia.net |
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Left: Maestro MD Ramanathan.
Rajan's guru. Rajan is one of the very few students who received training
under MDR
Right: Maestro H Ramachandra Shastri
taught Rajan, the art of flute playing at Kalakshetra.
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Left: Rajan managed the affairs of
'The Ravi Shankar Centre' for some time
Right: Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad
Ali Khan and Rajan. Ustad Ji inaugurated www.artindia.net when Rajan
made this first site on Indian classical music and dance in 1998.
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Left: Veteran vocalist KJ Yesudas
and Rajan.
Right: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan,
Tapan and Rajan
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Left: Rajan with Dr. Semmangudi
Srinivasa Iyer.
Right: Vani Jayaram recording
Rajan's compositions.
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Right: Rajan's mother, Gayathri
Srikrishnan is one of the first playback singers of Malayalam films.
She sang duet songs with Mohd Rafi at the age of 12.
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Left: Rajan with Musicologist, critic
and scholar, Dr. Raghava R Menon.
Right: Rajan, Maestro Zubin Mehta
and Joy Vincent.
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Right:
Rajan in a concert in France with Laurent-Guitar and Carla-Piano. |
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Left: Rekha
Tandon, exponent of Odissi and her musician husband M Weston are good
friends of Rajan.
Right: Ludwig Pesch. Another good
friend of Rajan. Ludwig and Rajan studied together at Kalakshetra, Madras.
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Left: Beauties and the Beast. Thats
the name Rajan has given to this picture on the left. From left: Menaka
Bora, Rajan and Rama Vaidyanathan
Right: GS RAJAN
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Left:
Nuits de L'Inde - Night of India Festival in France in 2004. Vidya-vocal,
Jayaprabha-Mohiniattam, Amalor-Organiser, Rama-Bharata Natyam, RAJAN and
Sumod-Mridangam. |
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Left:
Reela Hota, a fine exponent of Odissi. Click
here to visit her website designed by Rajan |
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GS RAJAN
- B-100, SPS Apartments Phase II, Sahibabad 201 005. India. Tel: 00-91-(0)-1203945371.
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