Sujatha Vijayaraghavan

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Sujatha Vijayaraghavan is an Indian writer, dancer, musician, musicologist and fine arts research scholar. [1] [2] [3] She is affiliated with Natyarangam, the dance wing of the classical arts institution Narada Gana Sabha in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, [4] and associated with the Natya Dance Theatre, a classical Bharatanatyam company based in the city of Chicago in the United States of America. [5] She was also associated with the pioneering Bharatanatyam dancer Kalanidhi Narayanan. [6]

Vijayaraghavan has a senior fellowship at the Tamil Pada Varnam Project and has directed a number of documentary films on the life and works of Bharatanatyam dancers such as Andavan Pichai and Kumbakonam Bhanumathy. [7] [8] She has also collaborated in Bharatanatyam dance production projects with dancers such as Anitha Guha, [9] and is noted for composing Devi Bharatam: The Mother and Liberator, a musical and poetic rendition of Vande Mataram, the national prayer song written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and translated to Tamil by Subramania Bharati. [10]

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