Tiruppavai | Pasuram 18 | Undu mada | Dushyanth Sridhar | Anahita & Apoorva | Lakshmi Babu

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.

Lakshmi Babu is a Kuchipudi dancer, founder, and director of Kuchipudi Dance Academy, Maryland in the USA. In 1996 under the guidance of guru Padmashri Dr. Sobha Naidu, she established the Kuchipudi Dance Academy. The Academy is now in its 25th year and has 4 studios across the DC Metro area. Since Covid-19 the Academy has successfully been holding classes virtually. Initiatives like ‘Adopt an Artist’, ‘Teaching Series’, ‘Virtual Programming’ have been initiated to provide funding, teaching, and performing opportunities to artists. The Academy will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in summer/fall 2021. YouTube Arts banner, Lasyam Creative Media was launched in 2017 by Lakshmi Babu with the intent to further promote the Arts.