Malaikkotai Govindaswamy Pillai

Profile of the late Fiddle Govindaswamy Pillai and articles on his associate Marungapuri Gopalakrishna Iyer and disciple Papa K. S. Venkataramiah. This issue also contains a profile on S. Ramanathan : A Life of Total Immersion (29-30) is a tribute to his memory. It is based on a chronicle of a day in his life written in Tamil by S. Kulandaiswamy.

V.A.K. Ranga Rao is back with yet another instalment of Dance Is A Many Splendoured Thing But. . . and this time he takes a good look at the famous pada varnam in Sankarabharanam, Manavi chekonarada (31-32). 

Reports on Tyagaraja aradhana celebrations in several places find a special place in the News & Notes section this time (7-10). The reports are complemented by an article on Tyagaraja & Tamil (28). Also included are news articles on two All India music meets, the Sahitya Kala Parishads Yuva Mahotsava in Delhi and the Kala Mandir dance festival in Madras. There is too a report on a Dialogue between Critics and Dancers.