![]() ![]() Ltd, informing them that the permission granted for the launch has been withdrawn. With just three days to go for the book launch, Kalakshetra Foundation, an autonomous organisation under the Union Ministry of Culture, dashed off a letter to publishers of the book, Westland Publications Pvt. ![]() Sebastian and Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers written by Krishna, the outspoken singer who took Carnatic music out of the sabhas to the streets of Chennai and to near-by fishing hamlets, was scheduled to be released at the Rukmini Arangam in Kalakshetra Foundation on February 2. References to cow skin being used in musical instruments like Mrdangam in a book written by eminent Carnatic singer T M Krishna seems to have irked the famed Kalakshetra Foundation here which on Thursday withdrew permission to hold the book launch at its premises. ![]()
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