First appeared in www.scroll.in on October 4, 2014. On September 19, Indian music lost one of its finest and youngest ambassadors, U Srinivas. Mandolin Shrinivas, as he was more often called, was single-handedly responsible for bringing the mandolin to the prestigious status it enjoys in Carnatic music. Many would be surprised to know that the music educationist and vocalist Vishnu Digambar Paluskar trained some of his students to play this stringed instrument and featured them in his orchestra way