namaste to all friends on the list. I came to know about an incident in G's life recently. Sometime back in late 60's or early 70's G had commented on carnatic musicians about their style of singing and also the rendering of Thyagaraaja krithis by them. His opinion was they cut the Telugu words while rendering which most of the times affected the lyric and bhaava. It seems G received furious outbursts from musicians of repute like Semmangudi Srinivaasa Iyer and Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar for that. The person who told this to me is from Madras and met G a week after this incident. This is to bring into discussion G's opinion on bhaava and expression and also his frank opinion about those days carnatic musicians, which is noteworthy. Few years back Illayaraaja commented ( in an interview to Frontline magazine in 90/91) in a similar manner for which he faced criticism. Parigi Sreedhar