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Dance maestro donates his awards

Nataraja Ramakrishna feels they will be safe with the UoH

In safe custody: Dr. Ramakrishna (extreme left) donating his awards to the University of Hyderabad in the presence of varsity officials.

HYDERABAD: The University of Hyderabad got richer with eminent artiste Nataraja Ramakrishna donating his most valuable awards, including the Padmasri medal conferred by the Government of India in 1992 for his multifaceted contribution to the field of dance. An exemplary artiste and a legendary figure in the Indian dance forms, Dr. Ramakrishna said the awards that were so dear to him would be in safe hands now.

The awards were donated at the Golden Threshold, the old campus of the university, and where the scholar himself guided and nurtured the dance discipline at the SN School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication.

Receiving these awards, Vice-Chancellor Seyed E. Hasnain said it was a nostalgic moment adding that it was a matter of pride that Dr. Nataraja Ramakrishna had chosen to give some of the rare decorations conferred on him to the university to be kept and displayed in its portals.

“This would indeed be representative of the heights that dance has reached as an art form due to luminaries like him,” he said.

Some of the awards presented to the university included the idol of Nataraja presented to him at a very young age by the Tenali Cultural Association, the Golden Crown, a Pearl Shawl, the medal citation as the Asthana Natyacharya of AP conferred by the Andhra Pradesh government in 1980, Vishishta Puraskar conferring the status of the Best Natyacharya of South India by the Central Sangita Nataka Academy in the year 1984 and the silver glasses presented to him on the Taramati and Premavati Foundation Day.

Y. Narasimhulu, Registrar, Vinod Pavarala, Dean, S.N. School, and Dr. Ramakrishna’s former students were present on the occasion.

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