`  == Carnatic/Karnataka ==  The Magsaysay award citation happens to read ``leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the Karnataka tradition of South India``. Now, while the usual English spelling these days is ``Carnatic music``, the version in the citation is not, strictly speaking, a mistake; after all, in most Indian languages it is still called something like that, and ``Carnatica`` is merely an overly Latinized spelling. More importantly and generally, ``mistake`` or not, that we should not change a direct quote is one of the most important rules of all writing. We can acknowledge that we notice a mistake with  or similar, or point out our change in some other way, or simply resort to paraphrase, but to silently change a quote and not indicate it is wrong! (Sometimes popular books replace archaic English spellings with modern ones; I think even this ought not be done without at least a remark.)   `