Bhashyam Appalacharya Sriman Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu (Telugu: శ్రీభాష్యం అప్పలాచార్యులు) (April 6, 1922 – June 7, 2003) was a Vedic scholar, commentator and a great teacher. Early life He was born to Srinivasacharyulu and Thiruvengalamma on April 6, 1922 on the auspicious day of Sri Ramanavami in Padmanabham, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. His birth name was Anantha […]
Tiruvottriyur Tyagayyar Tiruvottriyur Tyagayyar (Tamil: திருவொற்றியூர் தியாகைய்யர்; 1845–1917) was a Carnatic music composer. He was the son of the composer Veena Kuppayyar. He composed mainly in the Telugu language. The son and disciple of Tiruvottiyur Veenai Kuppaiyyar, he was an accomplished musician and composer. His home is located on Armenian Street in George Town. His […]
Tanjavur Shankara Iyer Tanjavur Shankara Iyer – Born on January 14th, 1924 in Togamarai, Tiruchi District to Venkatesha Iyer and Kuppalu Ammal, he learned music from his maternal grandfather Krishna Iyer as well as from Sattur Krishna Iyengar and Tiger Varadacharya. His students include T.V. Sankaranarayanan, Chitravina N Ravikiran, and Neyveli Santhanagopalan, in addition to […]
Goswami Tulsidas (Devanagari:गोस्वामी तुलसीदास), (1532–1623) was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion to lord Sriram. A composer of several popular works, tulsidas is best known for being the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana in the vernacular Awadhi. Tulsidas was acclaimed in his lifetime to be […]
Koteeswara Iye Koteeswara Iyer (January 1870 – October 21, 1936), is an important post-trinity composer, known for his many krithi-s in Vivadhi Raaga-s. Koteeswara Iyer was born into a music famly. His grand father was the famous poet and composer Kavikunjara Bharati, a contemporary of the trinity. Koteeswara Iyer was initially trained by his grand […]
Brahmasri Samavedam Shanmukha Sarma (1967– ) is a popular figure on television in India, and well appreciated for his commentary/discourses on Rudra Namakam, Vishnu Sahasranamam, Sivanandalahari, Soundarya Lahari, Lalitha Sahasranamam, Siva Tatvam, Ganapathi Tatwam, Sri Krishna Tatwam, Ramayanam, Bhagavatam, Bhagavad gita, Mahabharatham, Dakshinamurti Tattvam, Sutha Samhitha, Aditya Hrdayam and on the kritis of different Vaggyeyakaras. […]
Kalidasa Kalidasa (active late 4th-early 5th century) was classical India’s master poet and dramatist. He demonstrated the expressive and suggestive heights of which the Sanskrit language is capable and revealed the very essence of an entire civilization. Nothing is known with certainty about the life of Kalidasa. Clearly later than the great Buddhist poet Asvaghosha […]
Arunachala Kavi Arunachala Kavi (Tamil: அருணாசல கவி) (1711 – 1779) was a Tamil poet and a composer of Carnatic music. He was born in Tillaiyadi in Thanjavur District in Tamil Nadu. The three Tamil composers Arunachala Kavi, Muthu Thandavar and Marimutthu Pillai are considered the Tamil Trinity,[citation needed] who contributed to the evolution of Carnatic […]
Ootthukkadu Venkata Kavi He was born in about the year 1700 in Needamangalam to Muthukrishna Iyer. One of his descendants was Needamangalam Krishnamurthi Bhagavathar. His gurus were Needamangalam Rajah Bhagavathar and he founded the Rudrapasupathi Pillai sishya parampara. He composed many kritis in Sanskrit and Tamil, mainly on Lord Krishna. His songs were known to […]
Kamala Das Date of Birth : 1932 Date of Death : – Place of Birth : Kerala Dr. Kamala Das (Madhavikutty) the internationally renowned poet, short story writer and novelist was born in 1932 at Punnayoorkulam in Kerala. She is one of the very few writers from Kerala who writes effortlessly both in English and […]
