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[Rasikamani T. K. Chidambaranatha Mudaliar] was fond of saying that poetry must be rescued from the pundits, and that it was rarer to come across a genuine rasika than a good poet. [But] know that his ruthless trouncing of the spurious is in direct proportion to his passion for poetry. He was no grim aristarch out to censure, but [one who] identified himself with the creative mind in the niceties and nuances of expression. (Gowri Ramnarayan, “The Price of a Poet,” Hindu, 4/8/2001.)