Date:01/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/01/stories/2008070160471300.htm

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N. Murali re-elected Music Academy president

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: N. Murali, Managing Director of The Hindu, has been elected president of The Music Academy, Madras. This is his second term as president.

At the annual general body meeting of the Academy on Sunday, the following were elected unopposed to the executive committee for a three-year term.

Vice-presidents

Habibulla Badsha, C.V. Karthik Narayanan, Lakshmi Viswanathan, P. Obul Reddy, R. Seshasayee and R. Srinivasan were elected vice-presidents.

The secretaries are K.V. Krishna Prasad, Malathi Rangaswami, N. Ramji and Papu Venugopala Rao.

R. Ramakrishnan is the treasurer.

All members elected unopposed

The executive committee members are K.V. Balasubramaniam, R.T. Chari, Chitra Madhavan, Kala Ramesh Rao, Kripa Subramaniam, S. Raghavan, S.V. Ramaswamy, V. Srikanth, Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, N. Suresh, S. Swaminathan and P. Vasanth Kumar. This is the first time in the last 30 years that all the members were elected unopposed, a press release said.