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Rotary Club honours temple artistes
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Odhuvar, Srirangam vidwans feted
Odhuvars,
B. Sargurunathan,
Odhuvar of Kapaleeswarar Temple in Mylapore and one of the recipients of the honours, said he was overwhelmed to receive it.
“The Rotary Club should honour more temple artistes, many of them are very deserving,” he said.
The son of a school teacher, who hails from a family of Desikars who chant the
Tirumurai, he chose to learn the
Thevaram when he was just 12.
“My father’s elder brother Thiruvavaduthurai B. Somasundara Desikar taught me. I was drawn to his singing,” said the famous
Odhuvar, who formally trained in Carnatic music with B. Achutaraman.
India Currents, in collaboration with bioGraphic and the California Academy of Sciences, is publishing the last in a 3 part series on Chennai’s restoration of its marshlands. R
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Featured Image: Mylapore Tank holds water even during the dry season, but only because its bottom has been paved over.)
Temple tanks
As in most Indian cities, Chennai’s piped water supply is available for just a few hours a day. And many parts of the city have no water connection at all. So many people pump groundwater, either on their own property or from government wells on the street. Others hire tanker trucks to fill their cisterns with water that has also been extracted from underground. “A huge quantity, almost 200 MLD [million liters daily] of water, is being shipped every day,” a water utility official told me. But surface and groundwater are not separate sources; they are linked by gravity and hydraulic pressure. So when people pump groundwater, they are ultimately depleting surface wate