Teachers
Smt. Gowri Viswanathan:
Gowri Adhyapika has extensive teaching experience in Samskritam. After receiving her Samskrita Shiromani, Samskrita Acharya and Samskrita Shikshana Shastri degrees from National Samskritam University at Tirupati, she taught Samskritam at the school at Madras Sanskrit college for 28 years. After retiring in 2013, she has been volunteering with Samskrita Bharati as the Pradhana Adhyapika at Mahadhanapuram center. In 2023, she moved to Sengottai to work on her lifelong dream of setting up a kanya gurukulam.
Smt. Radha Ramachandran:
Radha Adhyapika is the principal of the gurukulam. She teaches Vigyaanam (Modern science and traditional bharatiya science) and English at the gurukulam. She has expertise in teaching scientific topics to children in an interactive way, through her former position of education outreach director at University of Chicago. She has a doctoral degree in physics from the University of Chicago, an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and post-doctoral training in education and outreach. She has worked for Hindu University of America. She is currently learning Samskritam and Vedanta. Her son and daughter are enrolled in Sri Bharati Tirtha Vedapatashala and UbhayaBharati kanya gurukulam.
Smt. Subbulakshmi Ganesh:
Subbulakshmi Adhyapika teaches Bharatanatyam and Carnatic music at the gurukulam.
Kum. Kamakshi Ramnarayanan:
Kamakshi Ramanarayanan has completed her BA Sastri and MA Acharya in saṃskṛta sāhitya śāstra from the National Sanskrit University, Tirupati (Rashtriya Samskrta Vidyapeetha, Tirupati). She is studying kāvyas and sāhitya śāstra under Smt. Visalakshi Sankaran and Smt. P.R. Gayathri. She is learning vyākaraṇa through MSP Sringeri.
Smt. Mathangi Kailasanathan:
Mathangi Adhyapika is a trained classical musician with a B.Sc in mathematics and M.A in Samskritam. She has extensive experience teaching samskritam and shlokas for children. She teaches CBSE mathematics and Bharatiya Ganitam for the girls in the gurukulam.
Smt. Swetha:
Swetha Adhyapika has an M.Com degree. She manages administrative work in the gurukulam. She also teaches English and mathematics for young kids. She is also learning samskritam in the gurukulam.
Smt. Uma Kannan:
Uma Adhyapika has an M.Sc degree in mathematics. She teaches CBSE mathematics for higher grade students.
Smt. Suganthi – (Profile Updates soon)
Smt. Prakruti Sriram
Qualification : M.com
Profession : 11 years of Teaching experience in English ,Math and Accountancy for primary ,mid primary and pre university level .
Thiru. Krishnamurthy Oduvar Murthigal:
Krishnamurthy Adhyapak has been trained in a shaiva aadinam. He teaches classes (online and in-person) on Thirumurai / Devaram.
Sri. Dr. Ram Narendra Narayanan:
Dr. Ram Narendra Adhyapak is a practicing neurologist in the USA. He teaches Shri Shankara Digvijayam and Ramayanam online for the girls. He is incharge of our gurukulam’s outreach efforts. He is a native of Tirunelveli, TN. Both the paternal and maternal sides of his family have been devoted to the Sringeri matam for many generations. He is currently learning samskritam and vedam. Since 2013 he has been teaching children in various topics pertaining to Sanatana Dharma including Srimad Ramayanam, Srimad Mahabharatham and Sri Shankara Vijayam.
Smt. Mangala Chandramouli:
Mangala Chandramouli Adhyapika is a retired professional. From her childhood, she developed an interest in artwork and slowly it branched out as passion .This led to her learning of different forms of visual art work -be it painting , drawing ,rangoli and crafting mostly through self- learning. Many social media tools helped her to fine tune her leaning of art work. She learned the nuances of tailoring from her mother.
During the last decade, she has been developing products through her artwork and the profits earned ,helps her to educate poor children. She considers it a great privilege given by kanya gurukulam at Shengottai to teach arts and crafts to their Gurukul girls This, she considers as a true blessing of Shankaracharya.
Smt. TVS Sharadha – (Profile Updates soon)
KUM. ARADHANA ANAND
Aradhana Anand Adhyapika is a Harikatha Artist and a student of Vidushi Smt. Vishakha Hari. She has been learning Carnatic music (vocal) from Vidushi Smt. Lalgudi Rajalakshmi and has also undergone training under Vidwan Shri. Abhishek Raghuram. She has also learnt Samskrit from various reputed scholars.
Aradhana has been giving many Harikatha performances for the last 5 years in Tamil, Samskrit and English on various topics, for various organizations such as The Music Academy Madras, Rasika Ranjani Sabha, Naada Inbam, Sri Siva Vishnu Temple (Maryland, USA), Samskrita Bharati USA.
Aradhana has received the Anugraha of the Sringeri Jagadgurus for performing Harikathas. She has also presented several Harikathas and Harikatha series based on various compostions of the Sringeri Jagadgurus.
Two Harikatha series that she presented were released as a video card by Sringeri Gurubandhava. Jagadguru Sri Sri Sannidhanam did the Avishkaranam of this Harikatha video card and Blessed Aradhana as part of the Sabha Karyakrama held at Sringeri on the occasion of 74th Vardhanti and Suvarna Bharati Mahotsava of Jagadguru Sri Sri Mahasannidhanam.
Aradhana is in her final year of college, pursuing Bachelor’s degree in Data Science from IIT Madras.
She teaches Stotras, Songs and Kathas to the Kanyas in the Harikatha style.
Bharati Madanmohan – (Profile Updates soon)
Contact us
Address: 60 / 119, Amman Sannadhi Street, Sengottai, Tamil Nadu 627 809
Phone: +91-7550109664
Email: ubhayabharati.gurukulam@gmail.com
Bank Account Details:
Sengottai Sri Sharadamba Charitable Trust
Axis Bank
A/c No:- 918020020936817
IFSC Code: UTIB0001374