Lalitha Mahadevan has been teaching veena for many years and believes in imparting veena lessons in a systematic and structured way. Lalitha Mahadevan began her initial training in veena at the age of 10. She started her initial veena lessons from Smt. Susheela and later continued her training under the guidance of renouned Vainika Smt. Kalpagam Swaminathan in Chennai.