3 Mani Madhava Chakyar Quotes on Tradition

Mani Madhava Chakyar quotes on tradition

2. 'My own people condemned my action (performing Koothu and Kutiyattam outside the precincts of the temples), Once, after I had given performances at Vaikkom, they even thought about excommunicating me. I desired that this art should survive the test of time. That was precisely why I ventured outside the temple' - Guru about the difficulties he had faced from hardliners when he tok Koothu and Kutiyattam outside the temples and performing it for common man.[2]

5. 'Mani Madhava Chakyar was the personification of all the greatness of this rich Indian classical art tradition' - Kapila Vatsyayan (leading scholar of classical Indian dance)[5]

23. 'for 90 years' - On asking how much years he had studied Kutiyattam. He was 90 years then.