"Your graduation is an indication of your mastery over the areas of your respective specialization, be it Kuchipudi, Carnatic Music, Bharata Natyam, Sanskrit or Telugu. And so, when you step out of the portals of this University, you truly become the Ambassadors for traditional Indian thought, art, dance, literature and culture."
Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti
Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, New York