Thoughts and Reflections, Ideas and Ideals
In Loving Memory of MANI PERUNDEVI(1930 – 2002) aka Mani Krishnaswami
Who, at the tender age of eighteen, gracefully stepped into the shoes of her parents to mother, nurse, and guide her eleven younger brothers and sisters.This volume is dedicated to her enduring legacy of cheerfulness, silent sacrifice, and unyielding equanimity. Over fifty years later, her siblings and descendants carry her memory with boundless, eternal gratitude.“You must rise up by your own merit.”
For me reading the above account of the great Sri “Tiger” Varadachari (one of the gurus of my mother Smt Mani Krishnaswami) was like virtually being taken on a fast-track tour of the brief history of the Carnatic music world . What struck me most forcefully from “Tiger’s” reminiscences was that in those days itContinue reading “Reading “Tiger” Varadachari’s brief history lesson fills me with grim foreboding for the future of Carnatic Music”