Vishaka Hari
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Vishaka Hari is an Indian musician from Chennai. She is a practitioner of the age-old art form of Kathakalakshepam, the art of story telling, weaving together music in a concert-discourse format. The stories are usually of a devotional nature depicting scenes from great Hindu epics like Ramayana, the accompanying songs often are set to music by great music composers and spiritual teachers who are often the authors of the stories being narrated. [1] She was presented with the "Vasantha Shresht" award by the Vasantha Memorial Trust, an organisation working in the area of cancer care and cure, in October 2007.[2]
Vishaka Hari is the daughter-in-law of Paranur Mahatma Sri Sri Krishna Premi swamigal, who is also her spiritual Guru. She is the wife of Shri. Hariji, who is an expert in delivering vedantic and bhagavatham lectures. She married Shri. Hariji in Paranur in 2001 at the age of 22. She learnt carnatic music from Padma Vibhushan Shri.Lalgudi G. Jayaraman.
Smt. Vishaka Hari is an accomplished A-grade artist of All India Radio with number of honours to her name, including coveted titles like Thyagaraja Prathidwani and Yuva kala Bharathi. She also enjoyed an outstanding academic career in Accounting.
She is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. She stood All India Third in Chartered Accountancy Final exams of May 2000.
[edit] References
- ^ Vedantam, Vatsala (23 May 2008). "The raconteur’s raga". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/05/23/stories/2008052351070400.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ Staff reporter (1 October 2007). "Vasantha Memorial Trust honours Harikatha artist". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/01/stories/2007100155210600.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
- Sivakumar, S (17 December 2008). "Aesthetically presented". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/ms/2008/12/17/stories/2008121750150600.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
