HT Brunch Cover Story: Meet the millennial Subramaniams

A heart-warming Sunday story about how the family of violinist L Subramaniam and singer Kavita Krishnamurti is marrying tradition with today and changing perceptions, one musical note at a time

Most people learn Indian classical music via the gharanas that support ‘pure forms’ of the genre. But Indian violinist, conductor and composer Lakshminarayana Subramaniam (LS) decided to teach his kids another way – by taking them around the world to perform at and attend concerts.

(From left to right) Dr Narayana, his son, Agni and wife, Dr Shabala Paul, Kavita Krishnamurti (seated), L Subramaniam, Mahiti (in front of him), Sandeep Nayak, Bindu (seated) and Ambi; Hair and make-up: Jean-Claude Biguine; Outfits for the entire family: House of Angadi (Prabhat Shetty)

The first time Kavita met LS for work was at a recording at a point when she was a confirmed bachelorette (Prabhat Shetty)

How destiny brought LS and Kavita together

Keeping it traditional and contemporary

A few of the past classical-music related covers of HT Brunch