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B.V.Raman B.V. Lakshmanan - musicians

They did not hail from a place rich in fertility of land or mind like Tanjavur; they were not cradled in a lineage, hoary with traditions of music running through many generations; and, until they began studying music as a regular discipline, they had not even imagined that they would enter a vocation as beckoning and as bewildering as music. In a more literal way and in a far truer sense than in the case of many others, it can be said that they did not choose music as their goal in life,- it is music which chose them as its votaries. And they did not belie its choice.

The B.V. Brothers, Raman and Lakshmanan, belonged to a Brahmin family from Bhavani near Erode, which might have seen better days, but not certainly very affluent at the time the brothers were born as twins in February 1921, at Gooty in the present Andhra Pradesh. Their father, B.V. Subrahmania Iyer, was stationed at Gooty as Deputy Collector, at the time of their birth.