P 2 | APRILDECEMBER 2018 2017 Contents Volume 2, Issue 10 | April 2018 Editorial Team 04 Cover Story 32 Annamacharya Editor’s Note 05 The father of Telugu Poetic Literature Cultural Bulletin 06 Awards 13 Torch Bearers 18 The mogul of 'Devotional ode': Anoop Jalota Reviews 52 'The Dance India' honors dance exponents on Inter- national Women's Day Beacons of Light 42 Celebrations Odissi is her innate finesse: First Edition of the 'Shimla Sujata Mohapatra Classical Dance Festival' Reports 60 Dance in India 24 KUCHIPUDI Kindled Spirit 62 Rays of Hope 48 A pioneering dance catalyst Tributes 64 across borders:Roopa Kiran P 3 | APRILDECEMBER 2018 2017 Editorial ‘The Dance India’- a monthly cultural magazine in English is our humble "Art speaks the attempt to capture the spirit and culture of art in all its diversity. soul of its culture" Articles may be submitted for possible Editor publication in the magazine in the following BR Vikram Kumar manner. • Send in your articles to Editorial Team [email protected] V Sandhya Parimala Please include your full name, contact information (address and telephone D Praveena number) and a short bio data. • Articles are published in the magazine only Ch Nikhitha on the condition that the author agrees to the terms of the Copyright Statement and RMK Sharma Policy M Jyothirmayee Reddy Coordinators KV Lakshmi Regd. 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Goa and Kolhapur Anand Sharma Pathankot (Punjab) Edited, Published and Owned by Bathina Ranga Vikram Kumar, Mobile No. +91-9848137445, on behalf of Trivikram Publications from D.No. 50-01-50/1, ASR Nagar, Seethammadhara, Dist. Visakhapatnam - 530 013, A.P. and Technical Advise and Graphic Design Printed by G. Sangameswara Rao, at Follow us on Sri Lekha Power printers D. No : 30-20-30 &31, Nehuru Sreet Seetarampuram, Elluru Road Vijayawada (AndhraPradesh) thedanceindiamagazine Editor: Bathina Ranga Vikram Kumar P 4 | APRILDECEMBER 2018 2017 Is magnifying essential? It is welcoming that the Government of India has at least now thought about the fraternity of art and artists existing in the country. Most of them are in very pathetic condition and there is a need to extend a helping hand towards them where the Union Government and the Minister concerned are to be appreciated for taking initiatives like recognising of artists nationwide, issuing identification cards, allocating funds for schemes like 'Pension and Medical Aid' BR Vikram Kumar, fellowships and monthly pensions. However, Editor these are granted through various processes, at the mercy of officials, bureaucrats and politicians. Why is such discrimination made, when public servants and artists work for the same nation? But the saddening part is that there shown the disparity and discrimination. When seen as service to the nation through any medium. First and official, that public servants and public representative get wages and perks for the service rendered and pension after service. But artists are never officially facilitated for his services or after attaining the age of retirement. Second and unofficial, that for both the earlier has ample number of disproportionate earnings through various modes using their official capacities, and this facility does not apply to the artists. Still, the public servants and public representative, get a minimum of Rs. 20,000/- plus AC Two tier travel with companion or AC first class if single that is equivalent to air fare, where as what is given to an artist is Rs. 500 to Rs. 3500/- only and no other extra facilities. This shows as a situation of bias towards individuals of the same nation. However, better late than never, but it would be appreciable and of great help, if the government and the concerned officials could provide the basic services and benefits to artists as well. Even politically seen, artist fraternities also do have some say in vote bank to contribute to the politics and are of the concern. Editor’s Note Editor’s P 5 | APRILDECEMBER 2018 2017 NCAA becomes World's First Trusted Digital Repository ational Cultural Audio-visual Archives (NCAA) project of the Ministry of Culture, NGovernment of India, implemented by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) has been certified as the world's first Trusted Digital Repository as per ISO 16363:2012 standard, granted by Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorization Body Ltd. (PTAB), United Kingdom. Leveraging this historic achievement, the plan for the next phase is to integrate about three lakh hours of audiovisuals materials, a corpus estimated based on a scoping survey conducted in 25 cities across the country, on this platform over the next five years, informed the Minister of State for Culture, Dr. Mahesh Sharma. He further said that the primary objective of the NCAA (ugu\bÁ¬Æ) which is developed by C-DAC Pune in is to identify and preserve the cultural heritage of India compliance with Open Archival Information System available in audiovisual form through a process of (OAIS) Reference Model ISO 14721:2012. digitization and making it accessible to the people. By At present, NCAA has a total of twenty-one (21) March 2018, a corpus of 30,000 hours of unpublished, Partnering Institutions from across the country, non-commercial audio & video recordings will be covering eleven governmental and ten non- made online at , out of which approximately 15,000 governmental cultural organizations. The digitization hours are already hosted online along with contextual and metadata standards followed by the Project are in metadata, representing the cultural diversity of India in parity with international standards within the overall the broadest sense. Over 23,000 hours of unpublished framework of the OAIS model. The digitization audiovisual recordings have already been digitized. standards are in concordance with those prescribed NCAA pilot digital repository was developed in by the International Association of Sound & Audiovisual collaboration with the Centre of Excellence for Digital Archives (IASA) and the metadata schema is extended Preservation by C-DAC, Pune. NCAA digital repository Dublin Core, followed by galleries, libraries, archives is established with and powered by DIGITALAYA and museums worldwide, said Sharma. - Source from PIB P 6 | APRILDECEMBER 2018 2017 CULTURAL BULLETIN Rs. 37 crores for Cultural Infrastructure he Proposed Budgetary allocation in 2018- Municipal Corporations etc. for creation of 2019 for "Scheme of Financial Assistance for appropriately equipped training, rehearsal & TCreation of Cultural Infrastructure" is Rupee’s performance spaces, various cultural spaces, studio 37 crores. The Scheme has two components- theatres, Tagore Cultural Complexes etc. for artistes to Component-I : Financial Assistance for Building propagate, disseminate arts and culture and foster Grants including Studio Theatres. Component-II: multi-dimensional interest in creativity and cultural Financial Assistance for Tagore Cultural Complexes expressions in the country. (TCC). The implementing agency of the projects under the During financial year 2017-2018, as on 14-03-2018, Scheme at State/UT level is State Govt. /UT total of Rs.2.34 crores have been utilized under both Administration or the applicant not-for-profit cultural the scheme components. All applications received organizations etc. under the Scheme have been processed as per Ministry of Culture releases the grant to eligible guidelines of the scheme and no application is lying projects recommended by the Expert Committee unattended. constituted under the Scheme, informed the Minister of Central financial assistance under the Scheme is State (IC) for Culture and Minister of State for provided to reputed not-for-profit cultural Environment, Forest & Climate Change Dr. Mahesh organizations, State Governments/Union Territories, Sharma intended in a written reply in Lok Sabha. Central/State Govt. agencies/bodies, Universities, - Source from PIB 97 crores sanctioned for modernization and development of museums here are six national level museums, namely National Museum (New Delhi), National Gallery Tof Modern Art (branches at Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai), Indian Museum (Kolkata), Victoria Memorial Hall (Kolkata), Salarjung Museum (Hyderabad) and Allahabad Museum (Allahabad), which are under the administrative control of the Ministry of Culture. These museums are providing visitor friendly facilities such as sitting arrangement, drinking water, cafeteria, toilets, lifts, ramp, wheel chairs Salarjang Museum for disabled persons etc. Ministry of Culture has no Children museum under its administrative control. Ministry of Culture