TM Krishna

The Woke Raga

Sandeep Balakrishna

Was TM Krishna awarded the Sangita Kalanidhi by Chennai’s Music Academy for his politics?

Carnatic Music Is Rooted In Sanatana Dharma

Nanditha Krishna

The TM Krishna episode has done irreparable damage to the Music Academy and the music season

TM Krishna: A Thinker’s Raga

V Shoba

TM Krishna in a new collection of essays plays the parts of artist and citizen to perfection

In Conversation with TM Krishna

V Shoba

TM Krishna tells V Shoba how his book on Mrdangam makers made him examine his relationship with instrumentalists and other hierarchies

The World Is What It Is

Nandini Nair

Surviving God and other delights

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

‘We musicians sit on the high horse of religiosity,’ says TM Krishna

V Shoba

Open conversation with TM Krishna, Carnatic vocalist and writer

TM Krishna, Carnatic Musician and Cultural Critic

Open

Dissenting Note

The Argumentative Musician

Sumana Ramanan

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