Cultural icon and Mysore Education Society co-founder Vimala color passes through

A file photo of Vimala Rangchara, Chairman of MES Institutions (Mysore Education Society), along with Infosys co-founder NR Narayan Murthy. , Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar

Vimala color, 97, crafts, textiles, theater personality, builder of many institutes and an educationist associated with the prestigious Mysore Education Society (MES) in Bengaluru, died in the city on the evening of 25 February. She was suffering from age related diseases.

A classical dancer located in the United States, his daughter Revathi, will reach Bengaluru on 27 February, after which the funeral will be held on the same day.

Malleshwaram’s face

Vimala Rangchar was the granddaughter of Venkatranga Iyngar, one of the founders of Malleshwaram at the end of the 19th century. This area was home to Vimala color. She was one of the founders of the Mysore Education Society (MES) in 1956 and was involved in running several educational institutions of MES until her last day. After chaired by MES for many years, she was serving as a member of her management committee at her Demine.

He is one of the founders of the Malleshwaram Entpressing Women’s Society (Mews), and is a patron of the Seva Sadan, which he took from the wife of Loksundari, Nobel Prize Vineet Scientist Sir CV Raman, who started it in 1936. She lived in a beautiful house of an old style until her last breath.

Born in 1929, Vimala Rangchar was married to Dr. and Army veteran Dr. She was with color when she was just 16 years old, as practiced in those days. However, it could not stop him. Returning from Italy, where he served during World War II, Dr. Rangchar practiced in Malleshwaram. Meanwhile, Vimala Rangchar completed her graduation in English and psychology, and soon bloom in Malleshwaram, a multidimensional cultural personality, combining herself with Mess, Mews and Seva Sadan in the 1950s, an association that continued to death.

The presidents of the presidents of Karnataka along with the presidents and actor Vyayanimala Bali along with a dancer and actor Vyajayatimala Bali around the stalls at the Vastrabharan exhibition at the Karnataka Chitrakala appearance in Bengaluru on September 30, 2011. Photo Credit: File Photo

IM Vittala Murthy (second left), Secretary, Kannada and Culture, with Vimala color (right), Chairman of Craft Council, visiting a stall in ‘Kutera -2008’, an exhibition and sale by the Crafts Council of Karnataka held on 4 January 2008 in Bangalore on January 4, 2008. Photo Credit: File Photo

The Craft Council of Karnataka Chairman Vimala Colorchar’s Craft Council briefed the Mediaperson about the Eco-Bagesh movement, and used vegetable-based colors. , Photo Credit: File Photo

Vimala Rangchar was active in performing art, traditional crafts, mainly in promoting textiles, something she had inherited from her mother Ammanni Ammal, known for designing her own sarees. Through this work, she came in contact with Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and considered Kamaladevi on her guru. She came to the head of the Karnataka chapter of both the Indian Nataya Sangh and the Crafts Council of India, which was established by Kamaladevi. He even obtained Kamala Manman, which was given in 2004 in memory of Kamaladevi. He was awarded the State Center in 2003.

Theater Veteran

She was an emotional theater person. She was leading a theater troupe called Kaljototi. Disappointed with men who played women on stage, she was roping to act, even to act, to act. Many plays were hit by TP Kalasam and Pravatwani in their performances. Couple staged Kailasam’s superhit play Ammavara rhinoceros A audience in Hindi to include India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Ms. Satu, Vimala Rangchar and Girish Karnad at the inauguration of the Amateur Dramatic Association (ADA) centenary celebrations at Eda Rangmandira in Bangalore on 22 June 2009. Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar

Long before Ranga Shankar or even Ravindra Kalakshatra came to Bangalore, Vimala Rangchar took the initiative to create amateur dramatic associates theater (Ada Rangmandira) along with others on Jessie Road.

He was responsible for the establishment of Jawahar Bal Bhavan at Cuban Park in the early 1970s, where he also made a place for the theater.

Vimala Rangchar received the first copy of the book appearanceOn May 31, 2008, Ashish Mohan Khokhar’s 10th anniversary was released from Chiranjeev Singh in Bengaluru at the 10th anniversary ceremony. Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar

“Vimala Rangchar is my cousin. From her college days, she was well aware of socialism. As a good friend of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, his interest in craft increased. This is the one who gave me the heavenly. Venkatachalam, introduced to the first generation art historian, who was responsible for me to join the Art School in Chennai. Pandit Ravi Shankar and dancer Maya Rao were his good friends. As a cultural ambassador, he traveled to both USSR and USA at the invitation of those countries. He even contested in the Legislative Council elections in Karnataka. In many ways, she was ahead of her time, ”recalled eminent artist SG Vasudev.