# Srikantha Babu — My Reminiscences character guide

> Srikantha Babu in My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Srikantha

**First appearance:** 0011-part-iii-x-srikantha-babu

## Snapshot

A guileless singing master who charms strangers, endures insults without flinching, and drags his favourite pupil from room to room to perform.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [Various Learning](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-ii-vii-various-learning)

Mentioned as the teacher from the Normal School who gave private lessons at home.

### [My First Outing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-ii-viii-my-first-outing)

Mentioned as part of the extensive family that took shelter at Chhatu Babu's villa.

### [X: Srikantha Babu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-iii-x-srikantha-babu)

The central figure of the chapter, an old man of Persian culture, a devoted admirer of the narrator's father, and the narrator's music teacher.

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