Sunday, 29 November 2020

Obit/Tribute - Yog Sunder Desai (1921-2020) - Ashish Mohan Khokar

Delhi: He got up on 27th November morning, asked for juice, sipped it quietly and was gone. What a way to go! For a man almost a century, who saw India from times of pre revival to calling his group Indian Revival Group; meeting pioneers who came to India from abroad like Ted Shawn or Ragini Devi, to learning from a pioneer like Uday Shankar and Kelu Nair; from seeing his royal family in Gujarat surrender all land and titles to cause of India's independence to seeing India get independence in 1947 - he saw all and created dance drama productions based on many such themes.

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7 comments:

  1. I bow my head to such a great soul who has been dedicatedly spending his life for the cause of Nation and Culture. Shat shat Naman 🙏🏾

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  2. ऐसे महान नृत्य विभूति को सादर नमन।
    ॐ शांति ॐ

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  3. Prabir Datta. Kuchipudi Dancer
    As a dancer I am very lucky to see the productions of pioneers like Yog Sunder ji, Narendra Sharma ji and others. I salute this great soul. I also appreciate Papiha for continuing her father's dreams. God bless them all.

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  4. Haath jod kar Saadar Pranaam. You are Blessed dear Papiha.

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  5. Saadar Naman �� dada .... bhagawan devangat dada ko aapne sath hi sathan denge.....aaj hum Jo Kuch bhi h dada ki hi wajah se h....dada Aap humse hamare sath. Or hamesha hamare dilon main rahenge....����

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  6. Dada was truly a blessed soul, he was blessed with deep rooted art and a heart always wishing good for anyone who got in touch with him.. I remeber my father doing all efforts to get all gujarati residents in Delhi to understand true Gujarati garba and Raas, also involving him to judge the cultural festival and garba competitions in Delhi.. we were verg fortunate to have known him and Papiha.... His journey of life has many stories to tell... May almighty bless his soul with peace

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  7. 💐 શ્રી યોગસુંદરભાઈ દેસાઈ દિલ્હીના ગુજરાતીઓ મધ્યે એક એવું વિરલ વ્યક્તિત્વ જેમની હયાતી એમના ચાલ્યા ગયા પછી પણ એમના પુણ્યસ્મરણમાં સાક્ષાત રહેશે. એકદમ શતાયુ આરે પહોંચ્યા પછી હાલમાં જ શાંત રીતે એમણે ચિરવિદાય લીધી ત્યાં સુધીમાં તેઓ એક સંપૂર્ણ કહેવાય એવું નિરવ શાંત સૌમ્ય અને નામ પ્રમાણે જ સુંદર જીવન જીવ્યા. કલાજગતમાં એમનું પ્રદાન અવિસ્મરણીય રહેશે અને ઉચ્ચતમ કક્ષાના ગુજરાતી કલાકારોમાં એમનું સ્થાન અનોખું છે. 🙏 - Bhagyendra Patel

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