Bharathanatyam guru Chinnamanur J. Krishna Kumar and two of his students visited Japan last month and performed at seven locations, and the proceeds went towards rehabilitation of the tsunami-hit. We did not mind since we saw it as a chance to help the affected people, especially having witnessed the horrors in Tamil Nadu,” said Mr. Kumar. The tour was organised by the Japan-India Society, Tokushima, and Geethanjali Friends Society Connecting Culture, Osaka. In some places, people had never witnessed Bharathanatyam performances or even seen women in saris,” he said. “It provided my students Harshitha Rajaram (a B.E.Mechanical Engineering student in VIT University, Vellore) and Preethi Divakar (a B.Com student in M.O.P.

Source: The Hindu January 21, 2018 19:18 UTC