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Krishna iyer ma!
E. Krishna Iyer.
Some persons fight for the right causes, win battles, ensure that their achievements yield benefits to society, shine in well-deserved limelight, but then disappear into the shadows of time, leaving succeeding generations hardly aware of their place in history.
E krishna iyer biography channel
E. Krishna Iyer was such a fighter, victor and luminary who is now a half-forgotten man. He played a decisive role in the renaissance of Tamil Nadu’s classical dance and its transformation from Sadir (aka Dasiattam) to Bharata Natyam.
Krishna Iyer was born on August 9, in a village in Tirunelveli District. The eighth of 14 children, he was given in adoption to a land-owning middle-class family in Kallidaikurichi, a village in the same district.
The terrain, tradition and the time in which a person is brought up foster latent talent and aptitudes.
Kallidaikurichi where E. Krishna Iyear (E.K.) was brought up was once called the ‘Brahmin Chettinadu’ by a wisecracking Alladi Krishn