Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi , dite M. S. Subbulakshmi, est une chanteuse indienne de musique carnatique née le 16 septembre 1916 à Madurai et morte le 11 décembre 2004 à Chennai.
Elle est la première femme à recevoir le prix Ramon Magsaysay en 1974 et la première musicienne à être décorée de la Bharat Ratna, la plus haute distinction civile de l'Inde.
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“The singing legend lives on her suprabathams (morning prayer songs) and w:bhajansbhajans.”
Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale in "The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English}, pages= 11-12
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Gopal Gandhi in his book of "A Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches", page=166
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Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale.[Sarada, M., The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English, http://books.google.com/books?id=R--f51qlYrkC&pg=PA11, 1 October 2005, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 978-81-207-2923-0, 11–12]
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
Gopal Gandhi in his book [Gandhi, Gopal, Of a Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches, http://books.google.com/books?id=Inp4jPFUHUkC&pg=PA164, 2011, Penguin Books India, 978-0-670-08502-6, 166]
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Mahatma Gandhi quoted here.[Johri, Meera, Greatness of Spirit: Profiles of Indian Magsaysay Award Winners, http://books.google.com/books?id=j1iegDJAYakC&pg=PA55, 2010, Rajpal & Sons, 978-81-7028-858-9, 58]
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“Oh! Who am I; a mere Prime Minister before the queen of song.”
Once Pandit Jawhar Lal Nehru heard Subbalakshmi when he could not help exclaiming, as quoted here in "Greatness of Spirit: Profiles of Indian Magsaysay Award Winners", page=58.
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