Rajkumar bharathi biography
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Rajkumar Bharati is the great-grandson Subramania Bharati, the greatest Tamil poet of our times, one of the greatest Tamil literary figures of all times. In this Kalki Biography Project exclusive, we are privileged to have Rajkumar Bharati sharing his views on Subramania Bharati and Kalki Krishnamurthy. An engineer by qualification, Rajkumar Bharati worked for some time in that capacity before taking up Carnatic music as a full-time pursuit.
Initially taught by mother Lalitha Bharati, later by Valliyur Gurumurti, he received intense training in Carnatic and Hindustani music under doyen TV Gopalakrishnan. The guru played a major role in shaping his disciple’s musical career. He also had the opportunity of learning vidwan M Balamuralikrishna’s compositions from the composer himself.
After establishing himself as an acclaimed and award-winning musician, Rajkumar Bharati turned music composer. Today he is also a figure to reckon with in the field of Bharatanatyam, as a sought-after co
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Subramania Bharati
Indian writer, poet, and Independence activist
In this Indian name, the name Chinnaswami is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Subramaniyan.
C. Subramania Bharati | |
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Subramania Bharati | |
| Born | (1882-12-11)11 December 1882 Ettayapuram, Tirunelveli district, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Died | 12 September 1921(1921-09-12) (aged 38) Madras, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Other names | Bharatiyar, Subbaiah, Sakthi Dasan, Mahakavi, Mundasu Kavignar, Veera Kavi |
| Citizenship | Indian |
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| Movement | Indian independence movement |
| Spouse | Chellamma (m. 1896–1921) |
| Children | 2 |
| Family | Rajkumar Bharathi (great-grandson) |
C. Subramania Bharati[a] (born C. Subramaniyan 11 December 1882 – 12 September 1921) was an Indian writer, poet, journalist, teacher, Indian independence ac
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Rajkumar Bharathi
Indian classical singer and composer
Musical artist
Rajkumar Bharathi is a classical singer and composer from India. He is the great grandson of the renaissance poet Subramanya Bharathi.[1] Rajkumar is an Electronics and telecommunications engineer graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai.[1][2] Rajkumar Bharathi a native of Chennai stands today as one of the most popular artists of his generation. He has also got a great following in the Indian state of Karnataka owing to his pleasing style of rendering Dasara Padagalu.[3]
Music training
[edit]Rajkumar Bharathi was introduced to music by his mother Lalitha Bharathi at the age of 5. He was also trained later under the tutelage of classical musicians like Valliyur Gurumurthy, M. Balamuralikrishna and T. V. Gopalakrishnan.[1] For Rajkumar Bharathi it was but natural to be associated with Music owing to his families keen interest in art a