Kalaimamani, Sangeetha Choodamani, Padmashri, Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt. Sudha Ragunathan, the leading light in the constellation of contemporary Carnatic Musicians, has taken gigantic strides in the realm of achievement not by chance but by sheer commitment, soaring intensity and focus of a Zen Master to excel, incessant activity of the grey cells and a singular capacity to translate her musical imagination into stunning vocal expression. She is the scion of a proud, tall guru parampara (her Guru being none other than the much respected, Padmabhushan, Dr. M.L.Vasanthakumari) but she has evolved and grown much taller, entirely because the leit motif in her music is her infinite capacity to never lose direction, concentrating exclusively on the pertinent and eschewing irrelevance. Sudha Ragunathan has been showered with awards and titles too numerous to enumerate, but she hardly ever allows her status of an icon to adversely influence her innate attributes of humility, congeniality, h