1.1   Thyagaraja: musical genius                                  4
1.2   Call of the eternal                                         7
1.3   Unswerving faith                                           10
1.4   The show sans sanctity                                     17
1.5   Hallowed by Nadopasakas: Houses of Trinity                 20
1.6   Muthuswamy Dikshitar                                       23
1.7   The divine veena of the composer                           31
1.8   Shyama Sastri's genius                                     32
1.9   Miser who became saint-composer: Purandaradasa             36
1.10  A royal vaggeyakara: Swathi Thirunal                       39
1.11  Grand old man of Carnatic music: Mysore Vasudevacharya     43
1.12  Great savants of Carnatic music:
      Muthiah Bhagavathar and Ponniah Pillai                     45
1.13  Papanasam Sivan                                            47
1.14  Prolific composer, extraordinary poet: Annamacharya        49
1.15  Ananda of Annamacharya                                     52
1.16  Gopalakrishna Bharathi                                     54
1.17  Muthuthandavar                                             56
1.18  Arunachala Kavirayar                                       58
1.19  Tirtha Narayana                                            60
1.20  Subbaraya Sastri                                           61
1.21  Kotiswara Iyer                                             63
1.22  Neelakanta Sivan                                           64