Tiruppavai | Pasuram 26 | Dushyanth Sridhar | Anahita & Apoorva | Mahati Kannan

Shri U. Ve. Dushyanth Sridhar is one of the most sought after public speakers in Sanātana Dharma who renders discourses in English and Tamil on Rāmāyana, Mahābhārata, Bhāgavata, Vishnu Purāna, Bhagavad Gitā, Vishnu Sahasranāma, Divya Prabanda. He delivers discourses interspersed with music (as harikathā) with musicians and interspersed with dance (as kathānritya) with dancers. He has conceptualized and scripted for dance productions with leading choreographers. He has rendered over 3000 discourses in 22 countries besides India. He has a wide spectrum of audience following on YouTube and is known in households through leading regional television channels. He manages a charitable trust called Desika Daya with a group of dedicated young volunteers. Please visit www.desikadaya.org to learn more.

Dr. Pranamya Suri is a well established Kuchipudi dancer, and the student of guru Smt. Srilatha Suri, Padma Shree Dr. Sobha Naidu and Sri Jai Kishore Mosalikanti. Pranamya is also a physician and is currently pursuing her medical residency. She was also founder and former president of Echoes of India, a non-profit organization, through which she installed 14 water purification plants in India. (serving more than 70,000 people) and established the first medical clinic in Kuchipudi Village, as well as in Nalgonda.

Kum. Mahati Kannan belongs to the fourth generation of the illustrious family of film director K. Subrahmanyam. She is the disciple and grand-niece of Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, and the daughter of well-known Veena Vidwan B. Kannan (Musician & Composer) and Dr. Gayatri Kannan (Musician & Dancer). She started her formal training in dance at the age of 5 and had her Arangetram when she was 8. At Nrithyodaya, she has completed the Nritya Praveshika, Nritya Visharadha and also the Nritya Shaali (108 Karanas) courses.Mahati has been accompanying Dr. Padma in her performances in many parts of India and abroad and has also given solo recitals in many prestigious Sabhas in Chennai. She has received, along with her mother, the Endowment Award from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha for two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013. She took part in the dance drama "Pallaki Seva Prabandhamu", choreographed by renowned Gurus Vasanthalakshmi and Narasimhachari. She was privileged to be part of the prestigious Khajuraho Dance festival during February, 2014. Mahati was privileged to be chosen to perform for the Music Academy’s Spirit of Youth Festival in 2015. She also performed a solo invocatory piece for the Baani Festival conducted by Kalakshetra in 2016. Her performance for the HCL Concert series of the year 2017, conducted by the Music Academy, Chennai, has been judged as the “Best Individual Performance” and she has received the “Outstanding Performer” award for her performance for the Mid-Year Series in 2018 at the Music Academy. Mahati has also sung for the dance performances of both her Guru Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam and a few of her disciples. She is a student of Carnatic Music and is currently a disciple of Dr. S. Sunder. She has completed her Bachelors' Degree in English Literature at Ethiraj College and Masters’ Degree in History of Art at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. She has also completed BFA (Bharatanatyam) in Distance Mode at SASTRA University and is currently pursuing MFA (Bharatanatyam) from the same University.