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2012 Adyar Balu (Balakrishnan N V), mridangist, December 13, 2011 Adyar K Lakshman, Bharatanatyam guru, August 19, 2014 aged 81 Adyar Rama Rao, BN vocalist, May 3, 2015 Aiyyelu DS, costume designer, October 22, 2017 Amala Shankar, dancer, July 24, 2020 aged 101 Amarnath Ghosh, BN & Kuchipudi dancer, Feb 27, 2024 aged 34 Amarnath Sury VS, Secretary of Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha, April 2, 2021 aged 79 Ammannur Madhava Chakyar, Kudiyattam guru, July 1, 2008 Ammannur Parameswara Chakyar, Koodiyattom maestro, November 15, 2008 aged 93 Ananda Shankar, Contemporary dancer, composer, March 26, 1999 Ananda Shivaram, Kathakali guru, November 7, 2001 Anandi Ramachandran, Bharatanatyam guru & musicologist, March 16, 2005 Annabhattula Krishnaveni, dancer / musician Kalavantula, January 16, 2016 Anne Marie Gaston (Anjali), Bharatanatyam, Chhau, Kuchipudi & Kathakali dancer, April 5, 2018 Anupam Rai, Kathak guru, June 27, 2021 aged 62 Ardhanareeswaram Venkat, Kuchipudi dancer and guru, August 8, 2022 Arjun Mishra, Kathak guru and performer, October 22, 2015 Arudhra Dr., scholar, June 4, 1998 aged 73 Arumugam C P, mridangist Asako Takami, Odissi dancer, November 3, 2007 Asha Joglekar, Kathak guru, March 18, 2016 aged 80 Astad Deboo, contemporary dancer, December 10, 2020 aged 73 Atul Desai, music composer, January 20, 2013 Balagopalan CK, Bharatanatyam dancer/teacher, August 24, 2019 aged 80 Balamuralikrishna M, singer/music composer, November 22, 2016 aged 86 Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer, February 9, 1984 Banamali Maharana, mardala maestro, November 17, 2018 aged 77 Bansi Kaul, theater director, February 6, 2021 Beppe Chierichetti, Kathakali actor, April 7, 2020 aged 71 Bhagavatula Seetharama Sarma, musician-nattuvanar, December 10, 2017 Bhagavatula Yagna Narayana Sarma, Kuchipudi guru, Jan 12, 2020 aged 90 Bhanu Kumar, dance critic, April 20, 2021 Bhanumathi Rao, Bharatanatyam dancer & actor, Feb 12, 2022 aged 98 B Bhanumati, BN guru, May 24, 2021 Bharati Tolani, Chhau dancer Bhaskar KP, Bharatanatyam guru (Singapore), April 17, 2013 aged 88 Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, dancer, August 4, 2003 Bhavanvitha Venkat, Kuchipudi dancer, March 28, 2019 Bhubaneswar Mishra, Odissi music composer, May 7, 1993 Bibhuti Mishra, art critic, November 29, 2005 Bijoy Kumar Senapati, Odissi Guru, December 8, 2011 Bipin Singh, Manipuri guru, Jan 9, 2000 Birabara Sahoo, Gotipua guru, October 29, 2019 Bireshwar Gautam, Kathak dancer, December 12, 2009 aged 42 Birju Maharaj, Kathak dancer/guru, January 17, 2022 aged 83 BSS Rao, art critic & patron, July 4, 2011 aged 82 Chaitan S Garg, organizer Chakyar Rajan, Chakyar Koothu exponent, April 6, 2007 Chandrabhaga Devi, dancer, 1997 Chandralekha, dancer/choreographer, December 30, 2006 aged 78 Chandrasekharan, Kerala Natanam guru Chandrashekar SN, critic, January 19, 2015 aged 93 Chandu Panikkar, Kathakali guru, January 16, 1969 Chavara Parukutty, Kathakali artiste, February 7, 2019 Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair, Kathakali guru, March 15, 2021 aged 105 Chinta Adinarayana Sarma, Kuchipudi guru, May 24, 2021 Chitrasena, Sri Lankan Kandyan dancer, July 18, 2005 aged 84 Chitresh Das, Kathak performer & teacher, January 4, 2015 aged 70 Chitti Durgadevi, Kuchipudi guru, March 6, 2007 Dakshinamurthi K N, Bharatanatyam guru, April 26, 2005 aged 76 Damayanti Joshi, Kathak guru, September 19, 2004 Dashrath Patel, artist & photographer, December 1, 2010 Debashis Sarkar, vocalist for Kathak & Odissi, October 23, 2020 Dharamshibhai Shah, Kathak Guru, December 9, 2017 aged 97 Dhiraj Chawda, dance photographer, November 6, 2012 aged 93 Dhirendranath Pattnaik, scholar & historian, January 1, 2009 Dinanath Pathy, artist & scholar, August 30, 2016 Dipali Das, Sattriya dancer, November 19, 2019 Doraikannu, Devadasi dancer, April 10, 2003 Doraiswamy A, flautist Dullav Chandra Singh, Odissi guru, May 5, 2010 Ekambaram G, mridangam vidwan, May 23, 2013 aged 80 Emily Mayne, Bharatanatyam dancer, May 29, 2013 Gandhi S C, Proprietor, Kalpana Art Recording, October 13, 2002 Ganesh Hiralal Hasal, Kathak guru, March 15, 2019 Gangadhar Pradhan, Odissi dancer & guru, October 11, 2010 Gauri Banerjee, Rabindra Natyam, November 2, 2016 aged 73 Ghulam Rasool (Ghulam Bhai), costume designer, January 25, 2022 aged 80 Gina Lalli, Bharatanatyam and Kathak dancer, February 16, 2019 aged 89 GM Sharma, scholar, Founder of Nartanam quarterly, December 18, 2017 Gopalakrishnan, Kerala Natanam guru, September 5, 2012 aged 86 Gopal Prasad Dubey, Seraikella Chhau dancer & guru, November 14, 2022 aged 65 Govindarajan S R, mridangist G Ulaganathan, critic, June 23, 2022 Gul Bardhan, contemporary dancer, November 29, 2010 aged 82 Harekrushna Behera, Odissi Guru, June 24, 2012 aged 81 Hari Moorthy V, costume designer/tailor, July 18, 2023 aged 37 Harini Koushica, Bharatanatyam dancer, May 17, 2002 Heisnam Kanhailal, theatre, October 6, 2016 Herambanathan B, Bharatanatyam guru, May 10, 2022 aged 80 Indra Rajan, Bharatanatyam guru, April 29, 2022 aged 83 Indrani Rehman, BN, Kuchipudi, Kathak & Odissi dancer, February 5, 1999 aged 68 Iyengar BKS, Yoga guru, August 20, 2014 aged 96 Jagannath Mahanta, Sattriya exponent & scholar, March 16, 2014 Jahnavi Jayaprakash, vocalist / composer, April 27, 2002 Jamuna Krishnan, Bharatanatyam dancer/teacher, May 15, 2019 aged 76 Jaya Krishnaratnam, Bharatanatyam vocalist, November 10, 2005 Jaya Subramaniam, dance producer and arts critic, July 27, 2014 aged 82 Jayalakshmi Alva, Bharatanatyam guru, July 21, 2015 aged 81 Jayalakshmi Arunachalam, Bharatanatyam guru, August 28, 2008 Jayalakshmi Kandaiah, Bharatanatyam guru, March 2023 Jayalakshmi Sadagopan, Natyanjali Trust, Nov 7, 2003 Jayalalitha J, Bharatanatyam, December 5, 2016 aged 68 Jaydev Das, light designer, March 27, 2020 aged 60 Jitendra Maharaj, Kathak guru, February 18, 2023 Joseph Levine (Raja), Kathak dancer, August 12, 1999 Josyula Krishnamurthy, Kuchipudi artiste & musician, September 1, 2014 aged 86 Jwala Prasad, musician and composer for Kathak, October 3, 2019 aged 63 Jyotindra Prasad Mishra, sitarist for Odissi dance, May 2, 2012 Kadirvelu Pillai T S, Bharatanatyam guru, November 22, 2001 Kalamandalam Appukutty Poduval, maddalam maestro, Jan 27, 2008 aged 84 Kalamandalam Chandrika, Mohiniattam guru, Jan 22, 2017 Kalamandalam Geethanandan, Ottanthullal artiste, January 28, 2018 aged 58 Kalamandalam Goutam, Kathakali artiste, September 7, 2019 Kalamandalam Govindan Kutty, Kathakali guru, January 5, 2007 aged 79 Kalamandalam Haridas, Kathakali, March 30, 2014 aged 62 Kalamandalam Haridas, Kathakali vocalist, September 17, 2005 Kalamandalam Hyderali, Kathakali vocalist/composer, January 5, 2006 Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma, Mohini Attam guru, May 12, 1999 Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, Kathakali guru, August 15, 1990 Kalamandalam Kuttan, Kathakali guru, January 13, 2022 aged 84 Kalamandalam Leelamma, Mohiniattam guru, June 15, 2017 Kalamandalam Natanam Gopalakrishnan, guru (Kathakali), November 19, 2001 Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair, Kathakali guru, April 3, 2007 aged 79 Kalamandalam Rajan, Kathakali exponent, June 13, 2012 aged 81 Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair, Kathakali guru, March 11, 2013 aged 87 Kalamandalam Sankaran Embranthiri, Kathakali vocalist, Nov 14, 2007 Kalamandalam Satyabhama, Mohiniattam Guru, September 13, 2015 aged 77 Kalanidhi Narayanan, Bharatanatyam and abhinaya guru, February 21, 2016 aged 87 Kama Dev, Bharatanatyam dancer, September 22, 1992 aged 54 Kamala Rani, musician & nattuvangam (Retd from Kalakshetra), April 19, 2003 Kameshwaran SK, Bharatanatyam guru, July 20, 2007 aged 79 Kanakaraj, makeup artiste, June 17, 2019 aged 60 Kanak Rele, Mohiniattam dancer & guru, February 22, 2023 aged 86 Kanchana Sharma, Bharatanatyam dancer, March 6, 2005 Kanduri Charan Behera, Odissi guru, June 21, 2016 Kanjoor Krishnan Namboodiripad, art critic, Jan 1, 2022 aged 97 Kannan R, veena artiste, May 8, 2001 Kapila Raj, Kathak guru, April 12, 2014 Kapila Vatsyayan, Arts scholar, September 16, 2020 aged 91 Karaikudi Mani, mridangam maestro, May 4, 2023 aged 77 Karaikudi P. Sivakumar, nattuvanar, June 27, 2018 aged 62 Kartik Chandra Rath, arts promoter, April 1, 2019 Karunambal G Pillai, BN guru, April 29, 2015 Kavalam Narayana Panikkar, scholar/dramatist, June 26, 2016 aged 88 Kelucharan Mohapatra, Odissi dancer & guru, April 7, 2004 Keremane Shambhu Hegde, Yakshagana exponent, February 3, 2009 Keshav S Kothari, scholar, October 16, 2006 Keshava Murthy HR, Bharatanatyam guru, July 22, 2006 aged 87 Kidangoor Rama Chakyar, Koodiyattam guru, September 2, 2015 aged 88 Kittappa Pillai K P, Bharatanatyam guru, October 30, 1999 Komal Kothari, ethno-musicologist and folklorist, April 20, 2004 aged 75 Korada Narasimha Rao, Kuchipudi dancer/guru, January 3, 2007 aged 74 Koser M L, founder of Pracheen Kala Kendra, March 27, 2008 aged 80 Kothavil Ramankutty, Kathakali costumes woodwork, October 27, 2018 aged 70 Kottakkal Chandrasekhara Warrier, Kathakali artiste, September 4, 2019 aged 74 Kottakkal Sivaraman, Kathakali actor, July 19, 2010 aged 74 Krishnamoorthy P.V. (PVK), musician & arts promoter, October 17, 2019 aged 98 Krishnan S V, Nada Inbam, February 15, 2007 Krishna Rao U S, Bharatanatyam guru, March 6, 2005 aged 92 Krishnaswamy R (Secretary, Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai), March 18, 2015 aged 78 Krishnaveni Lakshmanan, Bharatanatyam guru, August 29, 2004 aged 62 Kshetrimayum Ibetombi Devi, Manipuri dancer and guru, October 20, 2022 aged 86 Kunhiraman KP, Kathakali & Bharatanatyam guru, June 12, 2014 aged 84 Lakshmaiya S, flautist Lakshmi Knight, Bharatanatyam dancer, December 23, 2001 Lakshmi Rajamani, Kuchipudi guru, January 27, 2015 Lakshmi Vishwanathan, Bharatanatyam dancer, January 19, 2023 aged 79 Lalgudi Jayaraman, composer, April 22, 2013 aged 82 Lalitharatnam B, arts patron, August 27, 2007 Lalitha Swaminathan, Bharatanatyam dancer/vocalist, July 2010 La Meri (Russell Meriwether Hughes), Bharatanatyam & Kathak dancer, January 1988 aged 89 Lata Pooviah, Kathak dancer, August 7, 2003 aged 92 Laxmipriya Mohapatra, Odissi dancer, March 20, 2021 aged 93 Leela Ramanathan, exponent of BN, Kathak, Kathakali and Odissi, March 22, 2015 Leela Ratnam, mother of Anita Ratnam, July 24, 2008 Leela Sekhar, arts presenter, January 18, 2014 aged 93 LH Kazi, cultural director of Nehru Centre, July 20, 2021 aged 67 Liesbeth Pankaja Bennink, Bharatanatyam dancer, November 4, 2021 aged 66 Lingaraju, mridangist, October 26, 2022 Lokendrajit Singh, Manipuri dancer, May 18, 2018 Madan Mohan Lenka, Mayurbhanj Chhau guru, September 25, 2007 Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Kathakali maestro, Feb 6, 2018 aged 89 Madhurita Sarang, Kathak dancer, April 2006 Madurai N Krishnan, composer, Oct 9, 2005 aged 77 Madurai T Sethuraman, Bharatanatyam vocalist Maguni Charan Das, Gotipua guru, December 4, 2008 Mahadevan KS, music critic, September 3, 2006 Mahalingam Pillai T K, Bharatanatyam guru, December 6, 2002 Mala Gaur, Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher, September 8, 2017 Mani Damodara Chakyar, Koodiyattam actor, Feb 2022 aged 76 Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam maestro, January 14, 1990 Manjusri Chaki Sircar, Contemporary dancer, June 6, 2000 Manna Srinivasan, scholar, March 10, 2012 aged 78 Margi Sathi, Koodiyattam and Nangiarkoothu exponent, December 1, 2015 aged 50 Mathoor Govindan Kutty, Kathakali artiste, 4 Feb 2021 aged 81 Maya Rao, Kathak guru, September 1, 2014 aged 86 Medha Yodh, Bharatanatyam guru, July 11, 2007 Meera Seshadri, musician, composer, November 25, 2001 Melattur S Natarajan, Bhagavatamela actor/guru, October 15, 2020 aged 77 Menaka Thakkar, BN & Odissi dancer/teacher, February 5, 2022 aged 80 Milena Salvini, dancer/impressario, Jan 25, 2022 aged 88 Minati Mishra, Odissi dancer, Jan 6, 2020 aged 88 Mithran Devanesen, theater director and scenographer, August 9, 2010 aged 61 MN Sarma, academician, Founder of Nartanam quarterly, January 15, 2019 Mohan Khokar, scholar & historian, September 17, 1999 Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Kathak maestro, December 4, 1985 Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar, Koodiyattam guru, April 15, 2009 Mrinalini Sarabhai, Bharatanatyam guru, January 21, 2016 aged 97 Munna Shukla, Kathak guru, January 11, 2022 aged 79 Munukuntla Sambasiva, Kuchipudi dancer/guru, July 10, 2020 aged 60 Muralidhar Rao, Bharatanatyam guru, May 1, 2017 Myrta Barvie, BN, Kuchipudi & Odissi dancer, 15 May 2020 aged 87 Mysore S Rajaram, former Director of Kalakshetra, Chennai, June 1, 2009 Nagaswamy R, Archaeologist, Indic scholar, Jan 23, 2022 aged 91 Nala Najan, Bharatanatyam, Chhau dancer / writer, January 7, 2002 Na Muthuswamy, Koothu-P-Pattarai, playwright & theatre artist, October 24, 2018 aged 82 Nan Melville, dance photographer, March 20, 2022 aged 72 Narasimhachar M A, musician, July 7, 2004 Narasimhachari MV, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi guru, August 19, 2015 Narayan Parthasarathy, violinist, Oct 17, 2021 aged 53 Narayan TK, Bharatanatyam guru, March 2, 2005 aged 82 Narendra Sharma, contemporary dancer/guru, January 14, 2008 aged 83 Narmada, Bharatanatyam guru, March 30, 2007 aged 65 Naseem Khan, writer and policy advisor, June 8, 2017 Natanamani Balu, Bharatanatyam guru, January 22, 2007 Nataraja Mudaliar, Bharatanatyam guru, November 30, 2001 Nataraja Ramakrishna, Kuchipudi, Perini and Andhra Natyam guru, June 7, 2011 aged 88 Neila Sathyalingam, Bharatanatyam guru, March 9, 2017 aged 79 Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri, Kathakali maestro, August 2, 2021 aged 81 Nilakanta Singh, scholar, 2000 Nirmala Ramachandran, Bharatanatyam guru, February 23, 2011 Padma Subramaniam, Bharatanatyam vocalist, June 13, 2004 Padmini Dahanayake Ariyadasa, Bharatanatyam dancer/teacher, May 16, 2023 Padmini Ramachandran, Bharatanatyam dancer/actress, Sept 24, 2006 aged 74 Padmini Ramachandran, Bharatanatyam guru, January 17, 2016 aged 71 Padmini Rao, Bharatanatyam dancer/teacher, January 27, 2007 aged 51 Painkulam Damodara Chakyar, Koothu and Koodiyattam performer, July 26, 2017 aged 82 Palakkad Parameswaran, mridangam maker, March 25, 2021 aged 58 Pandanallur C Subbaraya Pillai, Bharatanatyam guru, May 12, 2008 aged 94 Pandanallur M Gopalakrishnan Pillai, Bharatanatyam guru, August 17, 2015 Pandanallur Jayalakshmi (Rani Jayalakshmi Nachiyar), Bharatanatyam dancer, March 2017 Pandanallur Swaminatha Pillai, Bharatanatyam guru, August 5, 2015 Pankaj Charan Das, Odissi guru, June 11, 2003 aged 82 Pappu Venugopal Rao, scholar, April 7, 2024 aged 76 Parassini Kunhiraman Nair, Kathakali actor, November 13, 2018 aged 85 T S Parthasarathy, Musicologist, October 13, 2006 aged 93 Partho Das, sitarist, May 2020 aged 70 Parveen Gangani, Kathak dancer, June 2, 2018 Pasumarthi Kesava Prasad, Kuchipudi Yakshagana performer & guru, May 7, 2021 Pasumarthi Krishnamurthy, Kuchipudi dancer, August 2004 Pasumarthi Sitaramayya, Kuchipudi guru, February 9, 2018 Pasupathi D, musician and composer, February 26, 2019 Pathikrit Mukherjee, sets and lighting designer, June 27, 2021 aged 61 Pattabhi Raman N, Founder Editor of SRUTI Magazine, December 23, 2002 Phillip Zarrilli (b 1947), Kathakali & Kalaripayattu guru, actor / director, April 28, 2020 Prabal Gupta, Kathakali dancer, November 14, 2023 Prabhavathi Shastry, Bharatanatyam dancer & teacher, January 7, 2015 aged 66 Prafulla Kar, Odiya musician, April 17, 2022 aged 83 Prince Braj Bhanu Singh Deo, Seraikella Chhau dancer, June 15, 2017 Prince Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo, Seraikella Chhau guru Protima Gauri, Odissi dancer, Aug 18, 1998 aged 49 Pushpa Bhuyan, Sattriya exponent, Oct 7, 2015 Radha Burnier, Bharatanatyam dancer, October 31, 2013 aged 90 Radhakrishna C, Bharatanatyam guru, March 30, 2024 aged 96 Raghunath Panigrahi, vocalist, music composer & Odissi musicologist, Aug 25, 2013 aged 79 Ragini Devi, Kathakali & BN dancer, Jan 22, 1982 aged 88 R Rajagopal, founder-secretary of Kartik Fine Arts, March 30, 2014 aged 88 Rajagopalan LS, scholar and patron of the arts, September 17, 2008 aged 86 Rajah K M, flautist Rajalakshmi G.S, Bharatanatyam guru, December 17, 2020 aged 80 Rajalakshmi Santhanam, musician and 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Manipuri guru, January 17, 2017 aged 87 Rashmi Parthasarathy (Mrs.YGP), founder of Bharat Kalachar, August 6, 2019 aged 93 Rathi Karthigesu, Bharatanatyam dancer, August 7, 2023 aged 87 Ravi A, Bharatanatyam dancer, Oct 29, 2003 Rev. 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S M George, October 20, 2008, director of Kalai Kaviri Ritha Devi, Odissi dancer, September 12, 2017 aged 92 Rohini Bhate-Jathar, Kathak guru, October 10, 2008 aged 83 Rukmini Devi, Bharatanatyam guru, February 23, 1986 Rupa Lal, art patron, January 8, 2004 Sabaretnam L, art patron, April 25, 2021 Sachin Shankar, contemporary choreographer, May 10, 2005 aged 81 Sagolshem Kirti Singh, Manipuri guru, March 6, 2024 aged 68 Sanjukta Panigrahi, Odissi dancer, June 24, 1997 Santha Bhaskar, Bharatanatyam guru, February 26, 2022 aged 82 Sarada S (Peria Sarada), Bharatanatyam guru, November 4, 2009 aged 94 Sarasa KJ, Bharatanatyam guru, January 2, 2012 aged 78 Saraswathi Thiagarajan, Bharatanatyam guru, June 29, 2009 Saroja Kameswaran, Bharatanatyam guru, August 8, 2022 Saroja MK, Bharatanatyam guru, June 13, 2022 aged 92 Saroja Vaidyanathan, Bharatanatyam guru, September 21, 2023 aged 86 Sastry B V K, scholar, September 22, 2003 aged 87 Sathiraju Venumadhav, vocalist/composer, April 23, 2019 aged 46 Sathyalingam S, vocalist, June 21, 2011 Satish Mehta, dance critic, February 9, 2021 aged 86 SD Desai, art critic, December 13, 2022 aged 85 Seetha K J, Bharatanatyam Guru, Nov 20, 2020 aged 78 Selma Jeanne Cohen, historian of Dance, December 23, 2005 aged 85 Seshadri S.V, musicologist, October 16, 2019 aged 94 Seshan.A, writer, January 7, 2018 aged 84 Shambhu Maharaj, Kathak maestro, November 4, 1970 Shankar Hombal, Bharatanatyam Guru, October 20, 2010 Shanta Rao, Kuchipudi & Bhama Nrityam, December 28, 2007 aged 81 Shanta Serbjeet Singh, dance critic, August 2, 2017 aged 81 Shashimani Devi, Mahari, March 19, 2015 aged 93 Sheni Gopalakrishna Bhat, Yakshagana exponent, July 18, 2006 aged 88 Shirin Vajifdar, Kathak dancer, Sept 29, 2017 aged 92 Shiva Rao, Bharatanatyam guru, April 29, 2008 Shyamala Mohanraj, Bharatanatyam dancer/guru, July 14, 2015 Shyamala Narayanan, Bharatanatyam teacher, January 27, 2023 aged 67 Shyam Prakash BK, Bharatanatyam guru, May 6, 2022 Sitara Devi, Kathak dancer, November 25, 2014 aged 94 Sivarama Poduval (Edakka, Sopana Sanageetham, Thayamabaka), Sept 5, 2006 aged 82 Sivanandam K P, Bharatanatyam guru, musician and composer, July 30, 2003 Sivasakthi Sivanesan, musician/vocalist, Oct 31, 2021 Sivasankaran N K, Kathakali maestro, April 7, 2006 aged 76 Sobha Naidu, Kuchipudi dancer, October 14, 2020 aged 64 Sridhar O S, vocalist for dance, Oct 21, 2006 aged 53 Sri Ganesan, Bharatanatyam guru, June 9, 2023 Srihari Nayak, Mayurbhanj Chhau guru, May 17, 2010 aged 76 Srinivasan K S, critic / writer Subhashini Chandrasekharan, Bharatanatyam & nattuvangam, June 4, 2020 aged 50 Subramaniam P V (Subbudu), critic, March 29, 2007 aged 90 Subramanian S P (Chemburaan), writer, January 4, 2004 Prof. V Subramaniam, scholar, May 28, 2004 Sudarshan Dheer, Kathak guru, Oct 3, 2015 Sudha Khandwani, BN guru, organizer, November 3, 2016 Sukendu Dutt, Kathakali dancer, Feb 1982 Sumanta Mohanty, Odissi singer/composer, October 9, 2008 Sumathi Kaushal, Kuchipudi guru, July 15, 2019 Sumitra Charat Ram, arts patron, August 8, 2011 aged 97 Sunanda Chowdhury, Manipuri dancer, November 4, 2003 aged 67 Sundaram Ramakrishnan, Director General of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Worldwide, February 14, 2003 Pt. 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