Promoting Arts

On Sunday, I was called for the Prize distribution function arranged by Columbia Kannan Trust and Jayadhaarini Trust for the youngsters who had participated in Classical music/semi classical music light music  under vocal and instruments  category in the competition held on 5th and 12th of September

Here again, I went with the question - what a IT company head has to do with Music competition.  Everyone in my family was looking at me with  wide eyes when I told them where I am going.  I told them, to enjoy a movie, you dont need to be a movie maker so to enjoy music you dont need to be necessarily a singer and also they are calling me to a function where I dont need to sing, but to distribute the prizes to the winners.

I came to know of these trusts only recently.

Columbia Kannan Trust is a very young trust just one year old instituted in memory of Late S Kannan, who is famously known as columbia kannan who has served his life with music and musicians while working as recording Officer in saraswathi stores a unit of AVM Ltd .Columbia Kannan has helped  lot of musicians has come up in their life His sons  K Sridhar, K Govindan & K Balaji all are in different field, have promoted this trust to continue the good work of their father.

Jayadhaarini Trust is also because of one man - Late Cheeni Krishnaswamy who having served as a Tamil Teacher has contributed to the Tamil literature by translating one the 5 great epics of Tamil namely Seeva Chintamani in a dramatized form titled Raasamadevi.  It had taken him 35 years of hard work to bring out this publication which has been well received.  The Government of Tamil Nadu has recognized the good work and this book has received the Best Publication Award in 2002.   This trust  now being taken care of by Mr K Padmanabhan son of Late Cheeni Krishnaswamy aims to work towards promoting arts and literature with public recognition of the services of various people in different walks of life and Mr

Here I found two great things to write about -

  1. An individual takes up the cause of promotion of Arts and Literature for the sheer love of things

  2. The siblings take up the great work of their father and carry forward things in their names
WOW  I admire these two fathers -  who have inculcated their love into their children, & the Sons -  who with their own work schedule are spending their personal time, effort and money towards something that their fathers started.

May these two trust continue their good work so that lot more youngsters get their talents recognized by the whole world.

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