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Receiving the #PadmaShri at the Rashtrapati Bhavan from the hands of President Smt Draupadi Murmu.
A very special moment, gratitude to our Gurus, families, Rasikas and Divine grace that led us up to this moment🙏🏼
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Ranjani Gayatri
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Ranjani Gayatri
@ranjanigayatri
Ranjani and Gayatri are world-renowned classical musicians whose musical contributions include studio recordings, television, radio, concerts, festivals.
- #thread 1/6 We have communicated our decision to withdraw from participating in the Music Academy’s conference 2024 & from presenting our concert on 25 Dec. We made this decision as the conference would be presided over by TM Krishna. #madrasmusicacademy #respectcarnaticmusic
- The Music Academy Chennai Dear Mr Murali, We thank you for the courtesy of providing a response to our letter dated 20 March 2024. We’d like to clarify that our letter to you was only a notification of our withdrawal without any request for your decisions or actions. We did not
- Such an inspiration to listen to Sri @annamalai_k as he spoke about education, role of music, history, inspiring children and above all the spirit of surrender to the cause of Dharma. Truly a man of destiny 🙏🏼
- Fascinating to see outrage and condemnation coming in from quite a few fans for a video and message we put out yesterday to express our joy on the occasion of Bhoomi Puja of Sri Ram Mandir.
- This moment. As we sat in front of Ram Lalla and sang Rama nee samaanamevaru! Some experiences are beyond description, and this is one of those. Carrying this and many other such magical memories as we leave Ayodhya in a few hours..
- Voice for Lavanya should raise from every nook and corner. My 17year old sister died because hostel warden abused Lavanya and her family as they denied to convert to Christianity #JusticeFor_TNHinduGirl #JusticeForLavanya #AntiHinduDMK @alok_bhatt @PiyuNair @PanickarS
- @nramind 1. Please isolate venom & demonstrate falsehoods in our ‘notorious’ note to the Music Academy 2. Either you r part of the Periyar packaging factory or an ignorant believer He called for killing of Brahmins, called the women of your house Prostitutes. Stop glorifying himCommend the firm and fitting response from The Music Academy and its President to the bigoted, casteist objections by a small coterie of set-up Carnatic musicians who can’t stomach the choice of an eminent, widely acclaimed, erudite, and articulate musician for the highest
- Replying to @ranjanigayatri5/6 Its dangerous to overlook Mr TM Krishna’s glorification of a figure like EVR who 1. Openly proposed a genocide of ‘brahmins’ 2. Repeatedly called/abused every woman of this community with vile profanity 3. Relentlessly worked to normalize filthy language in social discourse
- Replying to @ranjanigayatriApparently all global problems including hunger and poverty are a direct result of temple building and Hindu pride in our heritage. The left-liberal hypocrisy and posturing stands completely exposed.
- Replying to @ranjanigayatri6/6 We believe in a value system that respects art and artists, vaggeyakaras, rasikas, institutions, our roots and culture. We will be in moral violation if we were to bury these values and join this year’s conference. #madrasmusicacademy #respectcarnaticmusic
- Happy Karthigai Deepam! May Ishwara bless us abundantly. Annamalayaanukku Haro Haraa!
