The Founders
Balasundharam Ponnusamy
Balasundaram is the creative director and co-founder of Nadaloka.
His passion for sound healing, music, education and social entrepreneurship inspired the vision for the Centre.
Previously, he was involved in a range of Auroville projects, such as co-founding Mohanam Cultural Centre, Bamboo Center and Svaram Music Centre. The common objective of these Auroville projects has been providing a rich educational environment, both sharing traditional knowledge and exploring modern practices.
His dream with Arunachala Nadaloka is to create a sacred endeavour, a place where individuals can awaken through the incredible potential of the sound
Sahiti Divi
Sahiti has years of experience as a social entrepreneur working in the social impact space and field reasearch on with 15 local supply chains like mango, cashew, handloom , bamboo etc.and created live documentary stories of rural women made products using design thinking framework , align their stories to SDGs , create awareness about the village & it’s local resources, enable value added linkages & better outreach , provide onsite incubation, sustainable business development strategy.
So far visited more than 100 villages across India creating a micro skill marketplace for self sustainable women creators.
Development & Business Communication Strategist for micro & local enterprises and facilitator of village tourism experiences for women travellers.
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