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| birth_place = [[Hyderabad, Sindh]]<br />
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| known_for = [[Triveni Kala Sangam]]<br />
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'''Sundari K. Shridharani''' (6 April 1925 – 7 April 2012) was the founder and director of [[Triveni Kala Sangam]], a multi-arts institution, which she established in 1950.<br />
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==Early life and background==<br />
Born in [[Hyderabad, Sindh]], in undivided India, Shridharani started learning dance while at [[Santiniketan]], thereafter she joined the [[Uday Shankar]] at Indian Cultural Centre, at [[Almora]], where she trained in [[Kathakali]] under Guru Shankaran Namboodiri and in [[Manipuri dance]] under Guru Amubi Singh. Subsequently, she joined Ginner Mawer School of Dance and Drama, London, where she learnt [[Greek dance]].<ref name=sna>{{cite web | title =Smt Sundari Krishnalal Shridharani | publisher =Sangeet Natak Akademi | url =http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna-awards-2011/awardee-smt-sundari-krishnalal.html | access-date =2014-01-10 | url-status=dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140110093559/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna-awards-2011/awardee-smt-sundari-krishnalal.html | archive-date =10 January 2014 | df =dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=prima>{{cite web | title = Prima donna|work = The Tribune | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000903/spectrum/main4.htm | date=3 September 2000|access-date = 2014-01-10}}</ref> She married [[Krishnalal Shridharani]] (1911 – 1960), a poet, playwright and journalist.<br />
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==Career==<br />
[[File:Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi.jpg|thumb|Main entrance of Triveni Kala Sangam and Shridharani Art Gallery facade on the left.]]<br />
In 1947, she performed at the first International Youth Festival in Prague, and in the 1950s, she received a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] and also of the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], through which travelled across several universities in US, giving lecture-demonstrations of Indian dances.<ref name=sna/><br />
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She moved to Delhi after her marriage, and in 1950 started Triveni Kal Sangam. It started in one room and terrace above a Coffee House in [[Connaught Place, New Delhi|Connaught Place]], Delhi, with two students under noted artist K. S. Kulkarni. Soon her efforts got noticed, and [[Pandit Nehru]] allotted her the half acre land for the institution. Gradually, she organized a small group of people, started organizing concerts, and collecting funds. Finally construction began around 1957 and eventually on 3 March 1963, the present building was inaugurated.<ref name=hindu2010>{{cite news |title= Art of aesthetics |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article598821.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=28 August 2010}}</ref><br />
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She lived within the premises of Triveni, and died on 7 April 2012 in New Delhi, aged 93.<ref name=hindu12>{{cite web | title = Keeper of the shrine |work= The Hindu|author=Anjana Rajan| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/keeper-of-the-shrine/article3333555.ece| date=20 April 2012|access-date = 2014-01-10 }}</ref><br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
She was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] by [[Government of India]] in 1992,<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009)|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref> in 2011 she was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] for her overall contribution to the performing arts, which was awarded posthumously.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm|title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees|publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Official website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204253/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm|archive-date=30 May 2015}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite web |title=Sundari Shridharani ''Call of Drum'' photographs, ca 1950s|publisher=Photo Division, Govt. of India| url = http://photodivision.gov.in/IntroPhotodetails.asp?thisPage=971 }}<br />
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