Delorme 2011: "So the training began with adavus in a very vigorous way. It was hard work. He was a very demanding master and he met my expectations. I learned only adavus for at least one and a half years. And he taught me something like 500 adavus when most masters teach between sixty and eighty. He had developed a lot of different varieties in each family of adavus." "The last disciple: An interview with Dominique Delorme". March 2011.
Venkataraman 2011: "The guru's penchant for breaking the two-handed symmetry by using one hand; his love for exploring the same movement with the dancer facing different directions, getting away from the traditional frontal dancing; and the way the hand, doing a customary movement in the air, would be interrupted at one point to take on a totally unpredictable course; not to speak of his love for off beat syncopated rhythms that created a stir at the time evoking contrastingly strong reactions." Venkataraman, Leela (3 February 2011). "In the guru's mould". The Hindu.
