Helping The Underprivileged Realise Musical Dreams

Parivadini, committed to the promotion of music, provides nagaswarams and thavils to budding practitioners

- B. Kolappan

It was a dream come true for E. Chandrasekaran, a budding nagaswaram player, when he was presented with a new instrument to replace the one he had inherited from previous generations of his family.

Chandrasekaran, who followed in the footsteps of his father and his grandfather, both of whom were nagaswaram practitioners, had been facing trouble performing in concerts with an instrument that had developed cracks over the years.

But poverty, compounded by family circumstances, prevented him from buying a new instrument and unleashing his musical potential.

It was against this backdrop that Parivadini, an organisation committed to the promotion of music, particularly that of nagaswaram and thavil, presented him a new instrument along with reeds.