When Nagaratnammal Came Alive
Sruti|March 2018

When Nagaratnammal Came Alive

When Nagaratnammal Came Alive

It was a one-woman show; and dancer Lakshmi Vishwanathan carried the entire burden of depicting the story of Bangalore Nagaratnammal, remembered for building the samadhi for Tyagaraja at Tiruvaiyaru, on the banks of the Kaveri.

Nagaratnammal was born into a devadasi family at Nanjangud, Karnataka. Her mother Puttulakshmi started dance lessons for the child when she was hardly five. The amazing story of how Nagaratnammal rose to become one of the most sought-after singer-dancers in that period unfolded through the abhinaya ability of Lakshmi Viswanathan.

This story is from the March 2018 edition of Sruti.

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