Q. What is the idea behind forming a music company?
A. We have archival recordings which we wanted to share. The first release features me, my sons Amaan and Ayaan with my wife Subhalakshmi on the tanpura.

Q. Aren't you excessively promoting your sons?
A. A Tata or Birla is not going to promote any outsider as heir to their company. I don't see anything wrong in it.

Q. Why don't you share the platform with your disciples?
A. In 1988 I presented my disciples with 40 other players.

Q. Can you name your disciples?
A. I don't want to take names. It is up to them to name me.

Q. Will you acknowledge them only when they become popular?
A. No. I have many students in the US and Singapore. Some have forgotten me and some have started performing, so they think they don't need me. I feel hurt and betrayed. I taught them without charging anything and they left once their "mission" was complete.

Q. Why haven't you jumped onto the pop or fusion bandwagon?
A. A musical journey is long. I don't want to run like a donkey or a horse. I would like to walk like an elephant-gracefully. I won't compromise on the purity of music.

Q. Are you hoping to win the Grammy some time?
A. The Grammy is just a fight of numbers. I hope to get an award for excellence in Indian classical music and sarod playing. I made the sarod sing.

-S. Sahaya Ranjit

TREMORS Fortunes of Former Prime Ministers
	P.V. Narasimha Rao: All smiles after acquittal in the JMM MPs bribery case. Visiting temples.
	H. D. Deve Gowda: After election to Lok Sabha, is beaming. Humbly farming again?
	Chandra Shekhar: Old Turk(ey), books on whom will be released on his 75th birthday.
	I.K. Gujral: After 13/12, the peacenik's Gujral Doctrine is as dead as a Pakistani doornail.