{"id":8045,"date":"2018-03-21T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=8045"},"modified":"2018-03-21T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:28:14","slug":"now-sing-thyagaraja-kritis-in-malayalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=8045","title":{"rendered":"Now, Sing Thyagaraja Kritis in Malayalam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired principal translates 101 compositions of the saint-poet<\/h2>\n
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The Telugu compositions of Sri Thyagaraja have reached God\u2019s Own Country and are available to music connoisseurs in \u201cHis own language\u201d.<\/p>\n

This was made possible by the efforts of Latha Varma, retired Principal of Madurai-based Sri Sadguru Sangeetha Vidyalayam College of Music and Research Centre. Quite surprisingly, Tamil acted as the bridge in translating the Telugu compositions into Malayalam.<\/p>\n

Ms. Varma, who belongs to the royal family of Ernakulam, joined the famed college in Madurai when she was 24 and retired a couple of years ago. As Malayalam is her mother tongue and she gained proficiency in Tamil with her prolonged stay in Madurai, she decided to go the extra mile to learn Telugu literature too. And she did master it with \u00e9lan through a certificate and diploma course from Madurai Kamaraj University.<\/p>\n

Though Thyagaraja kritis are sung world over by people of all languages, many are do not know Telugu and as such miss out on its literary beauty. The mellifluous note and rhythm come in for appreciation, but the \u2018Bhava\u2019 (substance) more often than not gets lost. It is this void that the musicologist wanted to fill, at least in Malayalam.<\/p>\n

She hand-picked 101 most popular compositions of the saint-poet and gave a word-by-word translation (Prathipadartham) and also a gist (Thathparyam) of each verse. As senior Telugu professor T.S. Giriprakash Rao translated the Telugu verses into Tamil, she picked them up for translation into Malayalam.<\/p>\n

An academician, performer cum researcher, Ms. Varma spoke to\u00a0The Hindu<\/em>\u00a0on the sidelines of a seminar on \u201cGroup kritis of different vaggeyakaras,\u201dorganised by Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam’s (SPMVV) Department of Music and Fine Arts, where she was the key-note speaker.<\/p>\n

The translation work, which she calls her \u201cpet project\u201d, lasted for two years. \u201cThe copies are now available at the Maharaja’s College for Women and Kerala University, both in Thiruvananthapuram, and the Chittur College in Palakkad. I will soon present some [copies] to the Maharaja’s College in Ernakulam,\u201d Ms. Varma said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Varma was felicitated by SPMVV Rector V. Uma, Dean (Social sciences) D.B. Krishnakumari, seminar coordinator K. Saraswathi Vasudev and academic Dwaram Lakshmi on the occasion.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> States> Andhra Pradesh \/ by A.D. Rangarajan \/ Tirupati \u2013 March 21st, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retired principal translates 101 compositions of the saint-poet The Telugu compositions of Sri Thyagaraja have reached God\u2019s Own Country and are available to music connoisseurs in \u201cHis own language\u201d. This was made possible by the efforts of Latha Varma, retired Principal of Madurai-based Sri Sadguru Sangeetha Vidyalayam College of Music and Research Centre. Quite surprisingly, … Continue reading Now, Sing Thyagaraja Kritis in Malayalam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-artsculture-entertainment","category-historical-links-pre-independence","category-records-all"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8048,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}