V Shoba
TM Krishna tells V Shoba how his book on Mrdangam makers made him examine his relationship with instrumentalists and other hierarchies
Shashi Tharoor, TM Krishna, Daniel Ellsberg, Yasser Usman, Husain Haqqani, Mary Beard, Zadie Smith, Snigdha Poonam, Salman Khurshid, John Zubrzycki, Sheila Dikshit, Roxane Gay, Barkha Dutt, Mohammed Hanif and others
Open conversation with TM Krishna, Carnatic vocalist and writer
In recent years, TM Krishna, one of Carnatic music’s top vocalists, has been mounting a radical critique of kutcheri, the south Indian classical music performance. His book, released recently, challenges the status quo in a way few ever have