Remembering Seetha Doraiswamy, who broke the glass ceiling with the jalatharangam
In the mid-1930s, a 10-year-old and her elder sister attended a summer music school conducted by musicologist and composer Professor Sambamurthi. The younger sibling Seetha, who was training in Carnatic music from Bhagavathars Seetharama Sharma and Kodaganallur Subiah in Tirunelveli, was fascinated by the jalatharangam, where musical sounds are created by striking varied sizes of…