Raga Mala Music Society of Calgary Established in 1975, Raga-Mala is dedicated to promote music and dance of India and to encourage interaction between Eastern and Western musicians and dancers. Raga-Mala has presented more than two hundred performances of music and dance of artists from both Northern (Hindustani) and Southern (Carnatic) traditions of India. The performers include most of the stalwarts as well as many rising stars from both music traditions of India. To encourage learning of Indian music and dance, Raga-Mala awards four scholarships annually. Two for the Ali Akhbar scholarship for Hindustani music and two for the Saraswati scholarship for Carnatic music.Further, we also award a bursary and travel scholarship to given to students to help with their education in music Raga-Mala is a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The registration with CRA provides tax benefits for donations to the society. Executive for 2013 - 2014 Renuka Sriram, President; Sudha Menon, Vice President; Kalpana Gupta, Secretary; Howard Pitts, Treasurer; Vini Chari, Past President and Co-opted members are Vaidee Ayyaswami; Terry Meiyeppen; Meera Murali;Anil Garg;Sadru Ladhani and Rahul Shrivastava.