AIMA honours art patrons,music and dance educators

Industrialist Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti and Jayasankar Viswanathan, COO, UNEECO (Universal Electro Engineering), Bahrain, received the ‘Chembai Sangeet Samrakshak’ grant astatine the Suvarna Mahotsav organised by Dr. TVG’s Academy of Indian Music and Arts (AIMA) successful Chennai connected Saturday. The ‘Acharya Ratna’ grant was presented to 51 euphony and creation educators of South India. J. Radhakrishnan, president and managing manager of Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation, said seasoned instrumentalist and mridangam exponent T.V. Gopalakrishnan had transformed thousands of lives done music, subject and grace. “We should each larn from his humilityhe stands arsenic a immense inspiration,” History volition retrieve him for cautiously choosing 51 elder educators and honouring them,” helium said. Apoorva Haree, enforcement director, Rajalakshmi Group, said that astatine 94, Mr. Gopalakrishnan continued to beryllium a surviving unit of inspiration, reminding everyone that devotion to creation is genuinely a lifelong commitment. Mr Gopalakrishnan said that only an inquiring caput would spot maturation successful life.

Published - January 11, 2026 12:27 americium IST