An Equal Music
Every Saraswathi Puja, we place books at the Goddess feet and pray her grace allows us to learn, understand, appreciate better. It is usually anything and everything - Ash elementary Hindi letters, Gau phy/chem/math, Tao and the art of watercolour and finally "A Southern Music" by TMK. I opened the TMK book randomly and came upon a page where he talks about how to define classical music, how delineating folk and classical music is a form of oligarchy (Some Harvard prof said that. That brings me to a news article I read yesterday, more on that later). It felt drier than my thesis and I closed the book. Today morning the Friday supplement headlines read "An Equal Music", a conversation with L Subramanian and Kavitha Krishnamurthy about an upcoming concert in Music Academy. The title niggled and it dawned on me that it was the title of a Vikram Seth novel, a love affair between a pianist and a violinist. I ruminated over my memory of the story for a while, ...