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[email protected] Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2011 Board of Directors Celebrating 25 years of excellence in President Uma Prabhakar Indian Classical Music and Dance President-Elect in the Delaware Valley Raji Venkatesan Treasurer Usha Balasubramaniam President’s Note Secretary Ravi Pillutla Greetings! I wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year! Directors I consider it a unique privilege and honor for me to have this opportunity to lead SRUTI into her Ramaa Nathan 25th year, along with the competent and enthusiastic support of my fellow board members, who Gayathri Rao come with years of experience in planning, managing and executing such events of SRUTI. Six of Ramana Kanumalla them are from the previous board, with Raji Venkatesan as President-Elect, Usha Balasubramanian Raghunandan Parthasarathy as Treasurer, Ravi Pillutla as Secretary, Ramaa Nathan as Director of Resources and, Sunanda Sunanda Gandham Gandham as Director (2). We welcome our newly elected board members (who are not new to SRUTI by any means), Gayathri Rao as Director of Publications and Outreach, Ramana Kanumalla Committees as Director of Marketing & Publicity and, Raghunandan Parthasarathy as Director (1). Together, we Resources & Development look forward to presenting to you all carefully selected classical Indian music and dance programs Ramaa Nathan (Chair) throughout this year and making your 25th year SRUTI experience extra special and fun! Usha Balasubramanian The programming for 2011 season was initiated way back in the May/June time frame last year un- Rajee Padmanabhan Raghunandan Parthasarathy der the leadership of Mr.