Thursday, March 29, 2012
Bond, the Band
Lively strings, make up for the overdone performances, me thinks! It was their song - 'Kismet' - the search of which accidentally led me to discover Kismet on Ice..the combo makes it stunning to watch!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
On the same Page!
I just discovered that Stephen Hawking contributed articles for Cosmos, a an Australia based leading popular science magazine that I almost interned with!! If I had known and if it had worked out, it would have been a most nervous time!
COSMOS
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
A Meeting by the River
The 'Mohan Veena' is a guitar modified to sound like a veena and was invented by VM Bhatt, after whom it is named.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
John McLaughlin & Shakti
Amazing fusion of jazz and Indian classical (both Carnatic and Hindustani) music! Album - 'A Handful of Beauty'.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
UW-Madison Diwali Night '09
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~saigopan/music.html
(Scroll down to the last video)
Friday, March 2, 2012
Favourite Figures
Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao again! My roommate and I can barely watch without giving them a standing ovation in our room, with the crowd :). These are not current, but terrific..came up now coz my roommate has been watching a lot of figure skating the last few months..I'm even sure there’s a repeat of Kismet somewhere on the blog..
The Sign!
After thinking about doing this for the last many years, finally signed up for Accordion lessons and Carnatic music today..after getting advice from friends, Kathak dance to follow hopefully, rather than any other ...for its chakkars alone! It's enriching being in Bangalore/the South..of course, I am happily overwhelmed by the sweetness of its people..goodbye for good Delhi and Delhiites, I am NOT going back, come what may! Fortunately for me, my folks are in full agreement about not leaving Bangalore for the moment and the South ever, either! In tune with this brand of bread called 'Southern Days' that my roommate loves!
Fractal Art
While I am still in the process of educating myself about their mathematics, these images just caught my fancy...exquisite!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Se(t)erenity
Eternally delightful. Sometimes it takes me to be patient to listen to Hindustani classical music..and Western classical music too. But not Carnatic music! How Carnatic music manages to fill the soul with serenity and eternity and energy at the same time should be a subject of more analysis. That is what makes it such a pleasure to listen to, no matter what the mood! In fact, I don't think I've ever heard Carnatic music without getting completely sucked into the music, like it was a living entity and without being overwhelmed by it..
Music and dance are the only things I've experienced that actually make one feel like one has reached the Creator itself..there is hardly anything that's worth its weight in gold more than learning Carnatic music or at least not letting a day pass by without spending time listening to it. Writing is a high, but music/dance is self-submission...
Music and dance are the only things I've experienced that actually make one feel like one has reached the Creator itself..there is hardly anything that's worth its weight in gold more than learning Carnatic music or at least not letting a day pass by without spending time listening to it. Writing is a high, but music/dance is self-submission...
Satchi's Sach
‘Why do you write’ is a question that every writer must have been called upon to answer not one but many times and it is even likely that he/she has given different answers each time since it can be read as a philosophical question, a political question and an autobiographical question.The question itself can be posed with different emphases: like, WHY do you write,why do YOU write and why do you WRITE where the first is a general question about the the reasons for writing (differently intoned it can also imply contempt), the second is an existential question about the choice you have personally made while the third suggests , of the many options you had for self-expression or even for a career, why did you choose this mode or career called writing. I take it that the question posed here is the first one, about the raison d’etre of writing.
So, one can safely say without any fear of contradiction that I write to converse with history; I write to address the society, I write to explore the mystery of existence and the universe, I write to record my responses to my natural and human environment, I write to celebrate the richness and diversity of life; I write to articulate my personal pains and anxieties, I write to innovate and rejuvenate my language, I write to challenge death.
-Excerpts from In Place of an Answer (A Talk made in the Symposium , "Why Do I Write, How Do I Write" held at the Sahitya Akademi, 2010)
I cannot tell from where poetry came to me; I had hardly any poet- predecessors. Whenever I try to think about it, I hear the diverse strains of the incessant rains of my village in Kerala and recall too, the luminous lines of the Malayalam Ramayana I had read as a schoolboy where the poet prays to the Goddess of the Word to keep on bringing the apt words to his mind without a pause like the endless waves of the sea. My mother taught me to talk to cats and crows and trees; from my pious father I learnt to communicate with gods and spirits. My insane grandmother taught me to create a parallel world in order to escape the vile ordinariness of the tiringly humdrum everyday world ; the dead taught me to be one with the soil ; the wind taught me to move and shake without ever being seen and the rain trained my voice in a thousand modulations. With such teachers, perhaps it was impossible for me not to be a poet , of sorts.
Excerpts from About Poetry , About Life (A Speech at the Sahitya Akademi - Meet the Author)
K Satchidanandan served as the Editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Literature) and the executive head of the Sahitya Akademi for a decade (1996–2006)
So, one can safely say without any fear of contradiction that I write to converse with history; I write to address the society, I write to explore the mystery of existence and the universe, I write to record my responses to my natural and human environment, I write to celebrate the richness and diversity of life; I write to articulate my personal pains and anxieties, I write to innovate and rejuvenate my language, I write to challenge death.
-Excerpts from In Place of an Answer (A Talk made in the Symposium , "Why Do I Write, How Do I Write" held at the Sahitya Akademi, 2010)
I cannot tell from where poetry came to me; I had hardly any poet- predecessors. Whenever I try to think about it, I hear the diverse strains of the incessant rains of my village in Kerala and recall too, the luminous lines of the Malayalam Ramayana I had read as a schoolboy where the poet prays to the Goddess of the Word to keep on bringing the apt words to his mind without a pause like the endless waves of the sea. My mother taught me to talk to cats and crows and trees; from my pious father I learnt to communicate with gods and spirits. My insane grandmother taught me to create a parallel world in order to escape the vile ordinariness of the tiringly humdrum everyday world ; the dead taught me to be one with the soil ; the wind taught me to move and shake without ever being seen and the rain trained my voice in a thousand modulations. With such teachers, perhaps it was impossible for me not to be a poet , of sorts.
Excerpts from About Poetry , About Life (A Speech at the Sahitya Akademi - Meet the Author)
K Satchidanandan served as the Editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Literature) and the executive head of the Sahitya Akademi for a decade (1996–2006)
The Phantom of the Opera is there...
The haunting strangeness of the piece is what bring me back to it, over and over.
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