Here is one artiste who held his own throughout the interview in a becoming manner, for his character has been formed in the mould of the ascetic among artistes, Guru Ma Annapurna Devi. Not once did Nityanand Haldipur give way to cheapness in conversation, levity of spirit or a compromised stance to gain favour with the audience or the anchor, Pt. Arvind Parikh. This is called character-formation which, when once achieved, holds a person through the thick and thin of life without he giving in to adverse circumstances, and does not precipitate a person in the mire of material craving with its concomitant pitfalls. The manner in which Pt. Haldipur held his own was not just dignified but was a lesson for all in upright human behaviour devoid of arrogance to sustain it. May the young artistes and the old ones seek guidance in Pt. Haldipur's ways and means in order to reset their erroneous watches and realign their bent ways to what ought to be deemed as classically correct in every sense of the term, from music to manhood.
Foreword by Sugata Bose
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