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                        <h1 class="entry-title gmail-font-headlines">Govt mulling policy for culture: Minister</h1>
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                        <figure id="gmail-attachment_74827" class="gmail-thumbnail gmail-wp-caption gmail-alignleft" style="width:310px"><img class="gmail-wp-image-74827 gmail-size-medium" src="https://www.newstodaynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Award-story-photos-Copy-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"><figcaption class="gmail-caption gmail-wp-caption-text gmail-font-secondary">Minister
 for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture and Archeology K 
Pandiarajan with the awardees V P Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan at a
 function held in Chennai recently. Madras High Court judge Justice R 
Subramanian and Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra are present.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Chennai: The State government is looking forward to have a policy for
 culture, said Minister for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture 
and Archeology K Pandiarajan.</p>
<p>He said this at a function organised by Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra 
here recently, where ‘NadanaKalaiImayam Award’ was presented to V P 
Dhananjayan and ‘NaatyaKalasagaram Award’ to Shanta Dhananjayan, the 
legendary Natya couple of India, together known as The Dhananjayans.</p>
<p>Pandiarajan mentioned about how he admired the Bharatanatyam 
exponents The Dhananjayans and would like them to contribute more to the
 nation in joining the political discourse when it comes to art and 
social issues, a press release said.</p>
<p>He said his Ministry is looking to have a policy for culture and 
requested that eminent people like The Dhananjayans should contribute 
with ideas in framing the policy. He also had a word of appreciation on 
the award titles and its symbolism – Mountain for the male and Ocean for
 the female.<br>
Madras High Court judge Justice R Subramanian spoke about Bharatanatyam,
 its origin and its being the oldest known classical dance form in 
Tamilnadu.<br>
Accepting the awards, The Dhananjayans said that they were delighted to receive the award.</p>
<p>Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra president Saravanan, vocational service 
director S Saiseshan, Rotarians Rajesh and Mohan were present.</p></div>

<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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