Equitas Small Finance Bank and Mangal Tirth unveiled the coffee table book “Revival of the Temple Dance,

Equitas Small Finance Bank and Mangal Tirth unveiled the coffee table book “Revival of the Temple Dance,

Equitas Small Finance Bank and Mangal Tirth unveiled the coffee table book “Revival of the Temple Dance, Vasant Ustav- A Celebration of Dance in Chennai

Chennai, September 9, 2022: Equitas Small Finance Bank and Mangal Tirth Trust released the coffee table book Revival of Temple Dance, Vasant Utsav -A Celebration of Dance, in association with The Saraswati Educational Cultural and Charitable Trust.

The book is authored by Dr C K Gariyali IAS and Mrs Priyadarshini Rajkumar. The Book captures the magical journey over two decades of the Vasant Utsav Festival of dance. The Saraswathi Educational Cultural and Charitable Trust has been conducting the Vasant Utsav Festival of Dance commencing on the 1st of May each year at Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore, Chennai since 2006. The festival of dance is conducted for 10 days and showcases the various classical dance forms of India.

 

Over the years the festival has showcased performance by stalwarts such as Padma Vibhushan Sonal Mansingh and Padma Bhushan Dr. Padma Subramaniam and has awarded world renowned performing artists and Vedic scholars for their contribution to the preservation and promotion of Indian Culture and heritage. This festival is one of the core cultural activities of the trust and is dedicated to the promotion of Vedic heritage and Indian art and Culture.

The festival is dedicated to the loving memory of the Late Smt. Indira Garyali the founder of the trust who was a great patron of arts and worked for the preservation of Indian culture and heritage.

The book was unveiled by Mr. C C Parthipan ( Chairman Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd in the august presence of  Mr S.R. Gandhi IRPFS (Director Art and Culture Dept, Govt of TN), Mr. P.N. Vasudevan (MD and CEO Equitas Sm all Finance Bank ), Kalaimamani Roja Kannan  (Bharatanatyam exponent and President of ABHAI) will receive the first Kalaimamani Sailaja (Kuchipudi exponent), Mr Binesh Mahadevan ( Bharatanatyam exponent) and Mr Prabal Gupta ( Kathakali exponent).

About Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited [ESFB]

Equitas Small Finance Bank is one of the largest small finance banks in India. As a new-age bank, we offer a bo uquet of products and services tailored to meet the needs of our customers – individuals with limited access to formal financing channels, as well as affluent and mass affluent, Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and corpo rates. Our firmly entrenched strategy focuses on providing credit to the unbanked and underbanked micro and small entrepreneurs, developing products to address the growing aspirations at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’, fu elled by granular deposits and ‘value for money’ banking relationships.