I can't believe TMKism has entered into commentary of one of the prestigious music magazines! And these people are the legacy of MSS/Sadasivam family huh?The problem with most of the Carnatic music festivals in the US is that they tend to be replicas of typical Mylapore kutcheris and vizhas, even our own reality shows transplanted abroad. How much of an effort has been made and how difficult it is to attract Westerners to take a serious interest in our music is not something we know, but the overall impact of all these decades of hard work has been one of cultural ghettoisation, to go by the accounts of regular visitors.
The Indian musicians have taken lot of efforts to outreach and have taught in universities - we all know. Yet still for whatever reason the metaphysics of Indian music - that sound is of divine origin - is not something that westerners can accept. It is evident that majority of participants ( I would think almost all - but let me give some benefit of doubt there) in various competitions have been initiated at young age when they are close to that divinity - don't think they will entertain the idea of such a music anywhere into their teens for the first time.
Western institutions still classify other genres as ethno-music - so it belongs to an ethnicity - whilst western music is music!
It has only been a decade that an American born to Indian origin parents who worked as a political operative was addressed with a sub-altern pejorative : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaca_(term) . May be the reason we have Trump now - as that Senate candidate who lost because of that remark was a potential presidential material based on commentary in right wing talk radio at that time!
So deep down in the power structures they have a view of the "other" people!
Sruti magazine should mend its own back yard - tending to the wounds caused by the previous gen artistes - now that some young girls are getting up on the side of layam - will they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AksJWpPxL-U