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{{Infobox musical artist<br />
|name = Vidya Shankar<br />
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|image = [[File:Pratibha_Devisingh_Patil_presenting_Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Award_2007_to_Smt._Vidya_Shankar,_(Carnatic_Instrumental_-_Veena),_at_the_investiture_ceremony_of_Akademi_Fellowship_and_Akademi_Awards_2007,_in_New_Delhi.jpg|250px]]<br />
| caption = President [[Pratibha Patil]] awarding Vidya Shankar the 2007 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (Carnatic Instrumental - Veena)<br />
| birth_place = Madras, Madras Presidency, British India<br>(now [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India)<br />
| death_place = [[Mylapore]], Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India<ref name="Mylapore"/><br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|12|28|df=y}}<ref name="TTK_award">{{cite journal |date=1999 |title=TTK Memorial Award |journal=The Journal of the Music Academy (Madras) |volume=70 |pages=40 }}</ref><br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|06|29|1919|12|28|df=y}}<ref name="Mylapore">{{cite news |date=30 June 2010 |title=Veena Vidushi passes away |url=http://www.mylaporetimes.com/2010/06/veena-vidushi-passes-away/ |work=Mylapore Times |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref><br />
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|genre = [[Carnatic music]]<br />
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'''Vidya Shankar''' (28 December 1919—29 June 2010) was a distinguished [[Indian people|Indian]] [[musicologist]], educationist and ''vainika'' (''[[veena]]'' musician).<ref name="bio">{{cite news |last=Krishnan |first=Lalithaa |date=1 July 2010 |title=Art and science converged here |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/Art-and-science-converged-here/article16181169.ece |work=The Hindu |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref> She was a recipient of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]], the highest Indian award for practising artists.<br />
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==Career==<br />
As a child, Shankar was homeschooled until high school. Although proficient in mathematics, her favourite subject, and intended to pursue a degree in the field, but was overruled by her father, who felt it "too strenuous a subject in college for a girl. He made me take up music instead."<ref name="vainika">{{cite news |date=30 June 2010 |title=Vainika Vidya Shankar no more |url=https://www.thehindu.com/arts/Vainika-Vidya-Shankar-no-more/article16204888.ece |work=The Hindu |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref> After completing a teacher's training course, she did however teach mathematics at Kala Nilayam, the Children's Garden School and at the [[Kalakshetra Foundation]] in Chennai, later teaching [[Sanskrit]] and [[musicology]] at the Central College of Carnatic Music.<ref name="vainika"/><br />
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Shankar received her early musical education under T. S. Sabesa Iyer, receiving her advanced training under Madras Sabapathi Iyer and musicologist [[T. L. Venkatarama Iyer]]. Owing to her proficiency in Sanskrit and English, she became an authority on the great Carnatic musician [[Shyama Shastri]], publishing numerous articles and books. In 2007, she was conferred with the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]].<ref name="bio"/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
A member of the distinguished [[Chandrasekhar family]] of intellectuals, Shankar was a younger sister of physics Nobel laureate [[Subramanyam Chandrashekhar]] and the niece of physics Nobel laureate [[C. V. Raman]].<ref name="bio"/> She was married to V. S. Iyer, an executive with Parry & Co.<ref name="bio"/> The couple had three sons, V. S. Shivakumar, V. S. Mahesh and Dr. V. S. Sundar, who survived her.<ref name="Mylapore"/><br />
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Shankar died at her Mylapore residence in the morning of 29 June 2010, after a brief illness.<ref name="bio"/><br />
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