The sad demise of daughter of Bharata Rathna MS Subbulakshmi – Dr Radha Vishwanathan on Tuesday night is nothing but a divine call.

As the granddaughter of MS Subbulakshmi Aishwarya sitting next to her mother Dr Radha Vishwanathan recited Sriman Narayan…bhajan at the pronunciation of ‘Sri Padume Sharanu….the last breath of 83 years singer stopped. It was nothing a divine call says the family members speaking to a few media at the Bengaluru residence of Dr Radha Vishwanathan – she accompanied for five decades in the concerts of her mother Dr MS Subbulakshmi.

Born in Gopichettipalya in Tamil Nadu in 1934 for Radha ‘Subbulakshmi was everything’. Not only music the route to right life was taught to her by MS – Dr Radha had told in one of the interviews.

Granddaughter of MS, Aishwarya is maintaining the tradition of classical singing on the advice of her mother. Aishwarya recalls the top concerts her mother accompanied with grandmother in 1982 in the presence of Britain queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At the young age Dr Radha Vishwanathan was a dancer and performed in the presence of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Dr Radha Vishwanathan was honored with Lalitha Kala Academy ‘Sangeetha Rathna’ in 2008, ‘Kala Chandrika’ in 2010 by Aradhana Samithi and Veene Raja Rao award in 2016.

Dr Radha Vishwanathan leaves behind one daughter, two sons, and daughter in laws and grandchildren.