My Reminiscences · Character
Srikantha Babu
A guileless singing master who charms strangers, endures insults without flinching, and drags his favourite pupil from room to room to perform.
supporting
Also known as Srikantha
First appearance: X: Srikantha Babu
As a supporting figure in My Reminiscences, Srikantha Babu is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Mentioned as the teacher from the Normal School who gave private lessons at home.
He is the household's beloved teacher of song, equally at home with the narrator's father, brothers, and boys, and incapable of taking offence. His warmth is almost excessive: he weeps over Vidyasagar's Banishment of Sita, pleads for a drunken singer who mocked him, and once volunteered to carry the boy's own hymn to his father with unbounded enthusiasm. He matters because he models an artless, generous devotion to music and poetry that quietly shapes the narrator's early confidence.
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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