Nurturing Dance Talents at Natyanjali

Pranamya is the founder and President of Echoes of India, www.echoesofindia.net, a non-profit organization. Since 2008, Pranamya has been working on addressing the fluoride problem in the Nalgonda district, where inhabitants suffer from skeletal and dental fluorosis due to the consumption of excess fluoride in their drinking water. She conducted research for almost 9 months, and worked with a manufacturer to come up with the best solution, a reverse osmosis plant, to remove excess fluoride, bacteria and other contaminants from groundwater. Through her organization, Pranamya has installed 11 reverse osmosis plants so far, since 2010 May, that now serve 60,000 villagers in remote areas of Nalgonda.

Additionally, Pranamya conducted a health camp, where she recruited doctors, provided free health check-ups, and medications, for all the inhabitants of the Kuchipudi village, which legendary figures, such as Padmasri Vedantam Satyanarayana Shastry, among others. She had set up a unique clinic at Krishna District, Kuchipudi, ‘Kuchipudi Rural Clinic’ to serve the local artists and poor with a resident doctor. She had forged a partnership with TANA. TANA had donated ECG equipment to the Echoes of India Kuchipudi clinic. This clinic is a long-cherished dream of Late Padmabhushan Vempati China Satyam, Late Padmashree Vedantham Satyanarayana Sharma and has the blessings from notable Kuchipudi living legends/exponents such as Padmashree Dr. Sobha Naidu, Shri Vempati Venkat and Shri Vempati Ravi, Shri Vedantham Raghava and Shri Vedantham Venkata Chalapathy, Shri Jaikishore Mosalikanti, etc.

Pranamya has also donated hearing aids for three hearing impaired children, in Hyderabad (Ashray Akruti), so that they can have a more normal learning pattern, and a brighter future.

In 2007, Pranamya donated school supplies and bagpacks to children in three public schools in India, as well as an orphanage in hyderabad.

Pranamya organized a fundraising event for Vibha (Vibha is a non-profit organization that seeks to restore to underprivileged children their basic right to food, shelter, health and education in India), during which she performed, and raised a notable amount of money, in 2003. In 2005, she performed, to raise funds for the victims of the tsunami. She was the first one in Dallas to start the concept of using dance as a means to fundraise.

Pranamya also played an important role in contributing to the 2009 fundraiser for flood relief in Andhra Pradesh (2009), through Natyanjali’s production of “Meera.”