By A STAFF REPORTER
LAKEWOOD, CA – The auditorium at the Hoover Middle School here, was the subject for several hours on the evening of April 14, to spirit elevating and divinely submerged music. Vocalist Sudha Raghunathan, a star in the Carnatic music firmament delighted a discerning SoCal audience with her mastery and dexterity over the...
LAKEWOOD, CA – The auditorium at the Hoover Middle School here, was the subject for several hours on the evening of April 14, to spirit elevating and divinely submerged music. Vocalist Sudha Raghunathan, a star in the Carnatic music firmament delighted a discerning SoCal audience with her mastery and dexterity over the...
musical genre. The event was organized at the behest of Sankara Nethralaya based in Chennai and working toward providing vision care and surgeries to the needy. Started in 1978, the organization since then has served thousands. In 2018 for instance, it performed more than 23,000 free surgeries worth over $1.5 million according to estimates.
It has hospitals in several cities including Chennai and Kolkata. But the most important hurdle of serving the poor was overcome through the deployment of mobile units where a pair of buses go to villages examining and performing surgeries onsite. for the care they need.
“India is a country with 57,000 villages and highest number of blind people of any country - more than 10 million,” informed Raja Krishnamurti, a trustee of the SoCal chapter of Sankara Nethralaya Ophthalmic Mission Trust, while urging those in attendance to donate toward its cause. He said, last year the Trust, administered by 25 trustees across the US had raised and sent $1million to India and the hope was for the same to happen this year too.
The Sudha Raghunathan concert was jointly presented by the South Indian Music Academy whose President Usha Chari also spoke. The Veda Circle, helmed by Pandit Sivaramakrishnan of Sanatan Dharma temple in Norwalk, was thanked, among others, for his group’s support.
It has hospitals in several cities including Chennai and Kolkata. But the most important hurdle of serving the poor was overcome through the deployment of mobile units where a pair of buses go to villages examining and performing surgeries onsite. for the care they need.
“India is a country with 57,000 villages and highest number of blind people of any country - more than 10 million,” informed Raja Krishnamurti, a trustee of the SoCal chapter of Sankara Nethralaya Ophthalmic Mission Trust, while urging those in attendance to donate toward its cause. He said, last year the Trust, administered by 25 trustees across the US had raised and sent $1million to India and the hope was for the same to happen this year too.
The Sudha Raghunathan concert was jointly presented by the South Indian Music Academy whose President Usha Chari also spoke. The Veda Circle, helmed by Pandit Sivaramakrishnan of Sanatan Dharma temple in Norwalk, was thanked, among others, for his group’s support.
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