Chewing Differences

8220;You are very powerful and what you write can create havoc,8221; said the doyen of Indian classical music as he addressed scribes. He had come to speak at the music festival he has founded, Sawai Gandharva, and the media trooped in to give him an audience. Recounting how a national daily once criticised a sarangi player who accompanied him, he said: 8220;Such was the write-up that the man stopped playing the sarangi and has not touched it since.8221;