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Book review of The Spirit of Enquiry: Notes of Dissent

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Book cover of The Spirit of Enquiry: Notes of Dissent

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Why does T M Krishna have to write? Being a trained classical singer, this is a question he is often asked. Why does he not stick to singing, pleasing listeners and receiving applause? Like for most, writing came to him perchance, in the form of an angered retort to a columnist’s sweeping claim.

If it had not been written, the world may not have read T M Krishna. The commentator, who provoked a letter to the editor, was judgemental. Musicians these days, he contended, were unlike past maestros, in terms of modesty and humility — the current crop of musicians were