Sujatha Vijayaraghavan

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]

Bibliography

• Oru piṭi vairam [A Small Diamond] (in Tamil). Vān̲ati Patippakam. 1990.
• Araṅkam: Naval [Arena: Novel] (in Tamil). Vān̲ati Patippakam. 1993.
• Entayum Tayum [Mother of Anything] (in Tamil). Vān̲ati Patippakam. 1995.