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dated December 5, 1955: Rukmini Devi felicitated

Sir S. Varadachari, former Judge of the Federal Court, praised Smt. Rukmini Devi, Sri Vasudevacharya and the pupils of Kalakshetra for their presentation of select scenes from the Ramayana as a dance-drama in Sanskrit. He was presiding over a meeting organised on December 3 by the Samskrita Academy at the Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Madras, to felicitate them. He paid a tribute to the services of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Vasudevacharya in the realm of Carnatic music and the efforts of Smt. Rukmini Devi for the revival of dance and music in the country. It should have been a highly difficult task to set the Ramayana to music to be enacted as a dance-drama. Sir Varadachari remarked whether the most emotional portions of the Ramayana would lend themselves to this kind of presentation. Smt. Rukmini Devi, in her reply, said her long cherished desire to enact scenes from the Ramayana as a dance-drama had been fulfilled, thanks to the willing cooperation of the artistes of Kalakshetra and Sri Vasudevacharya, who had composed the songs. She said they would be enacting scenes relating to Rama going to the forest, Bharata bringing the Padukas of Rama and the Pattabhishekam scene, some of which would probably be portraying the emotional part of the epic.

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