ABSTRACT
The lighter side of classical entertainment was essentially a case of popularizing music and a musical style through a variety of discursive writings that the middle-class elite had access to and one they could immediately identify with. Kaki, whose love for music was matched by his flair for elegant writing, began the series 'Adel Pedal' under the pseudonym Karnataka, which became immensely popular making the weekly a household name in middle-class circles in Madras. The journal carried short essays on the 'Music Master' and his travails in middle-class domestic spaces dominated by uninformed but ambitious parents keen on providing the necessary skills of education and cultural attainments to their daughters. A short story in the Karnataka Sangeetam entitled 'Tirpu'14 ('Judgment') that tells the story of a severe but morally upright judge Samba Sivachariar and his wife Sugunavati. Music became the metaphor of unrequited romantic love in the short story titled 'The Procession'.
