Tiger Varadachariar sitting at the center, Parur Sundaram Iyer to his left
and
Vinjamuri to the extreme right

The music world owes a lot to Tiger, Veena Dhanammal and other stalwarts for their contributions to the field of Music. In fact, Tiger was said be responsible for the form of Kharaharapriya Raga as it exists today. Before Tiger's time, Karaharapriya was not considered to be a major raga.

Even in 1930's, Vinjamuri Varadaraja Iyengar and his older brother Vinjamuri Sreenivasa Chariar (Flute) would attend Veena Dhanmmal's house on Fridays during her Friday evening musicians' gathering and also spend their time going to the houses of other giants of music on a daily basis to listen to them. One day, Srinivasa Chariar had gone to Tiger's house around 7 p.m. and asked him whether he was going to sing that night. Tiger had replied that he was not in a mood to sing. So, Srinivasa Chariar went back to his sister's house (who lived close to the Anjaneyar temple in Mylapore and Tiger lived close to Vivekananda college road; 32, Apparswami Koil Street) and went to bed that night by sleeping in the yard in the front of the house, as it was a hot summer night. At around 10.00 p.m. Srinivasa Chariar heard his name called out from the gate and woke up to find Tiger standing there. He was surprised and of course ran to Tiger to know the purpose of his visit at that late hour. Tiger's answer was " Sreenivasa Chariar, I am in a mood to sing now, would you like to come?" Of course, Srinivasa Chariar followed him to his house. Tiger sat down with his Tambura sruti and started singing Kharaharapriya Ragam. Time passed. It was 6.30 a.m. the next morning when Tiger's wife made coffee and demanded that he stop singing and take some rest. The whole night Tiger elaborated ONE raga Kharaharapriya and did not finish it even after roughly 8 hours. Such was his talent. Such was his simplicity too to respect a rasika's wish and interest to listen to his music to go and call him at his residence.

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