Homage to Dwaram Mangathayaru – Jewel of Thiruvallikkeni

Homage to Dwaram Mangathayaru – Jewel of Thiruvallikkeni

It is with great sorrow I read about the passing away of a doyen of Carnatic music – she was 92 and perhaps died peacefully.  Nothing much has been known about her in recent past as she remained seclusive and the age-old house fell to hammer !!  My respects to her and painful homage remembering her frail image and the slow words that once heard, sitting closer to her in April 2006 at her house in Bandala Venugopala Naidu Street, Triplicane, a street that is lesser than 200 M.