The name is inspired from the heart melting song “Maithreem Bhajatha Akhila Hrijetreem…” sung by Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbhulakshmi in the U.N. The foundation of Maithree lies at the feet of the Mahatma who penned this song, the Paramacharya of Kanchi, the 68th pontiff of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Sri Chandrashekarendra Saraswathi Swamigal called as Mahaperiyava. With his grace, thoughts began to blossom in the minds of a few culturally committed women in Nurani Agraharam on the dilutions happening in the cultural front. For millennia, women have preserved the culture and traditions of Bharat by actively practicing and propagating them through a silent intangible movement. Kolams(drawings made in the front yard with rice flour) and Kholus(keeping dolls during Sarada Navarathri) thrived in households when monuments were shattered at the hands of invaders. This invincibility was due to invisibility of the feminine activity. 

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