An article by Vidya Shah

http://www.india-seminar.com/2009/601/601_vidya_shah.htm

"‘NOBODY appreciates its great utility. People will certainly repent one day. The next decade will kill most of the leading musicians and scholars.’ In the year 1922, so wrote Pt. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkande, a seminal figure of Indian musicology, about the steady decline of Hindustani classical music in India in a letter to a close friend.^1..."

Nice read.