**M. NAGABHUSHANA SARMA** **Prof. M. NAGABHUSHANA SARMA**, a front ranking scholar and researcher of Andhra’s cultural heritage, has extensively worked on the traditions of Drama, Dance and Folk Arts. A former Dean of Arts & Performing Arts in several Universities, Prof. Sarma is presently the Chief Editor of ***Nartanam.*** *"What every person needs are koodu (food), gudda (clothing) and needa (a roof on our head). If these are essential needs of a person, the same are needed for an art to sustain and please the audience. Bhava is the food (which sustains the art); raga is the appropriate clothing which gives the bhava shape, beauty and musicality; and tala is the dwelling in which we live because the bhava and raga in our art are pegged to the abode of tala".1*