11.1  Palghat Mani Iyer speaks out                                      489
11.2  What ails Carnatic music today                                    497
11.3  Rasikas can play a positive role                                  501
11.4  The role of a critic                                              504
11.5  Taking music to the people                                        507
11.6  Male chauvinism                                                   512
11.7  On listening to music                                             514
11.8  Engaging voices all but no power                                  518
11.9  Mike, a big boon to the weak-voiced                               521
11.10 Lost primacy of the vocal artiste                                 524
11.11 New song boom blurs perspective                                   528
11.12 Classicism calls for a deeper felicity                            530
11.13 Cutchery makes a catchy art of Carnatic music                     533
11.14 Concern for harmony in performance                                536
11.15 Dubious songs pollute stream of classicism                        538
11.16 The twin tyranny                                                  540
11.17 What constitutes classicism?                                      543
11.18 The past, present and future                                      545
11.19 Primacy for lakshya or lakshana?                                  547
11.20 The mechanical bent                                               549
11.21 The maya of tempo in music                                        551
11.22 The challenge and the response                                    553
11.23 Declining stature of veena                                        556
11.24 Pallaki Seva Prabandham                                           559