St. Tyagaraja, in his Kaluguna Pada (Purna Lalita), reveals his intensely devotional enquiry with Sri anjaneya, the foremost devotee of Sri Rama.  'Having entrusted everything to you, Rama takes His ablutions,offers neivedya to Sri Ranganatha and partakes the prasada served by Sita by her own hands while you recite sattvika puranas.  You drink deep this Brahmananda regularly.  Will I be fortunate to be ever blessed with such service?' 
    This is a passionate salutation to Sri Anjaneya.  Sri Rama is seen taking food and Sita serving it.  Service-concious Anjaneya reads from cadjan leaves.  (An elegant portayal of the ancient concept that food is to be taken in an enviornment of bhakti.
    TAMIL ISAI SANGAM

    From the 7th century upto the 12th century AD, we have a lot of musical compositions in Tamil by the Saiva & the Vaishnava saints. Sambandar, Naavukkarasar, Sundarar, the twelve Alwars, Manickavasagar, Arunagirinadhar, Ramalinga Adigalar, Marimuthu Pillai, Muthu Thandavar, Arunachala Kavi, Oothukkadu Venkatasubbaiar, Mazhavai Subbarama Bhagavathar, Subramania Bharathi, Papanasam Sivan, Periasamy Thooran, Namakkal Ramalingam Pillai, Bharathi Dasan have all rendered beautiful compositions that could very well enrich the musical concerts.

    It is a really sorry state of affair that these compositions are very rarely sung by our musicians in their concerts. From the 16th century onwards TamilNadu was under the rule of Nayaks, Marathas, Muslims & the British whose mother tongue is other than Tamil. Naturally, there was no patronage either of the Govt. or the public. Somehow the Telugu kirthanas of Thiagarajar, one of the musical trinity of Thiruvarur have become very familiar with musicians (whether they understood the meaning or not) & naturally no efforts were taken either by the musicians or the public in rendering/listening the Tamil compositions.

    Aggrieved at this state of affairs, Dr. Raja Sir. Annamalai Chettiar came forward to popularise Tamil compositions in all music concerts & put them back to the pristine glory. The Tamil Isai Sangam, Chennai was founded in 1943. A majestic building in the heart of the city was built to house the Sangam. The Tamil Isai Sangam celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1967 & Golden Jubilee in 1992.

    Raja Annamalai Mandram, Chennai-108
    Ph: 25341425 / 25341958
    www.tamilisaisangam.in 
     
    Isai Perarignar awards
    1. M.M.DhandabaniDesikar 1957
    2. P.SambaMurthyIyer 1957
    3.Kumbakonam K.Rajamanickam Pillai 1957
    4. P.S.Veerusamy Pillai 1959
    5. Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1960
    6. Vazhuvur B.RamaiyaPillai 1961
    7. Madurai Mani Iyer 1962
    8.Musiri Subramania Iyer 1963
    9.Chitoor Subramania Pillai 1964
    10. Papanasam Sivan 1965
    11. K.B.Sunderambal 1966
    12. Kribananda Vaariyar 1967
    13.Paalakadu T.S.Mani Iyer 1968
    14.Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer 1969
    15. M.S.Subbalakshmi 1970
    16.Madurai S.Somasundaram 1971
    17. M.P.PeriyasamiThooran 1972
    18. D.K.Pattammal 1973
    19.Thiruveezhimizhalai S.SubramaniaPillai 1974
    20. Balasaraswathi 1975
    21.Mayuram V.R.GovindarajaPillai 1976
    22.Thiruveezhimizhalai S.Natarajasundaram pillai 1977
    23. M.L.Vasanthakumari 1978
    24.Ramanathapuram C.S.Murugabupathi 1979
    25. M.P.Somasundaram 1980
    26.Dr.S.Ramanathan 1981
    27. SeerghazhiS.Govindarajan 1982
    28.Namagiripettai K.Krishnan 1983
    29.Lalgudi G.Jayaraman 1984
    30.Thanjai K.P.Kittappapillai 1985
    31.Dharmapuram P.Saminathan 1986
    32. R.S.Manohar 1987
    33. A.K.C.Natarajan 1988
    34.Kunnakudi R.Vaidyanathan 1989
    35.Valayapatti A.R.Subramaniam 1990
    36.Maharajapuram V.Santhanam 1991
    37.Dr.K.J.Yesudoss 1992
    38.Dr.SheikChinnaMoulan 1993
    39.Dr.SelviPadmasubramaniam 1994
    40.ThirupamburamDr.S.Shanmugasundaram 1995
    41. T.R.Paappa 1996
    42. Thiruvizha R.Jeyashankar 1997
    43. N.Ramani 1998
    44. Kancheepuram R.Vinayaga Mudaliar 1999
    45. Madurai.T.N.Seshagopalan 2000
    46. Kancheepuram M.N.Vengadavaradhan 2001
    47. Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna 2002
    48. M.S.Viswanathan 2003
    49. K.J.Sarasa 2004
    50. Thiruvidaimarudur P.S.V.Raja 2005
    51. Bombay Sisters 2006
    52.  Saidai Natarjan
    		 2007
    53. Chembaranaarkoil Vaidyanathan 2008
    54. Aruna Sayeeram
    		 2009
    55. T.N.Krishnan 2010

     
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