The seventh couple to be featured in the Parivadini Navaratri Nava Shakti series is TC Karunanidhi and TK Maheshwari. Vidushi Maheshwari, a second generation nagaswaram artiste in her family, first learned from her father, KS Ponnusamy. “After marriage, having to take care of family and raising...
The sixth couple to be featured in the Navaratri Nava Shakti series of Parivadini is Soundararajan-Santhanalakshmi of Chettikulam. A third generation nagaswaram artiste in her family, Vidushi Santhanalakshmi, however, had to coax her father Thammapatti KS Ponnusamy to teach her. “At that time,...
Balaganesh-Bageshwari of Tiruvannamalai are the fifth couple to be featured in the Navaratri Nava Shakti series of concerts by Parivadini. Even those who are not familiar with Carnatic music would know them through their playing in AR Rahman’s Narumugaiye in Iruvar and Shankar Mahadevan’s...
The fourth pair that we are featuring in the Navarathiri Navasakthi is the couple from Chidambaram, Viswanathan – Vijayalakshmi. Vdushi Vijayalakshmi hails from the famous Thiruvarur legacy. Her grandfather TS Meenakshisundaram Pillai had the distinction of serving as the Asthana Vidwan in the...
The third couple to be featured in Parivadini’s Navaratri Nava Shakti series is KS Senthil Murugan and S Shanthi of Tiruvannamalai. Vidushi Shanthi has been learning nagaswaram from six years. She learned the basics from her grandfather Raman and later from her father Kalaimamani TR Pichandi....
