Listen to Lucky

The subject of today's blog, in my opinion, is one of the œuvre d'art (masterpiece of creation of God) next to water a.k.a Adam's Ale. If you can infer from the title, you get a pat from me. Its the "Human Brain". I always wonder how "bill gates" and next door neighbour "bhagyam mami", though both are gifted with similar brains, they differ in their extremities of thoughts. I am not going to talk about cerbellum/spinal fluids...blah blah. The thing which fascinates me, still "where does a thought begin ? how do we initiate a thought ? what makes us to think ? - these sort of questions are the ones which fascinates me. In our Uttar Pradesh a.k.a Brain, there is neither lockouts/hartals/strikes as our communist friends who keep doingin bengal, nor it experiences crashes, memory leaks etc as my office pc. If it is all that is true that "Mind is set to rule the world" as google, we could have courses to condition our minds instead of

As the title suggests, i always had a fascination to when i read and observed the mela kartha raagas (which are basic "mother" raagas - 72 in number) had a similarity with mendeleev's periodic tables. The similarity which i have noticed (could be done by lots of ppl who can relate the "chemistry" between bhilari and shankarabharanam). Basically the 72 raagas can be classified into 2 sections (one with "shuddhamadhyamam(it denotes swara ma)" and the other set with "prathimadhyamam" (in languages, it has to be "nedil/badi ma").It has another classical history that these classification of raagas follow Katapayadi sankhya shastra. This technique is more like a modern day algorithm which classifies the raagas and number them based on the mathematical numbers and swarastanas. If you see the periodic tables advocated by dmitri mendeleev , he classifies them based on valency and weight. similarly the chemical elements have been grouped as

I still remember the day i watched "Bharathi" the movie by Gnana Rajasekharan (retired civil servant who takes better films than the film institute guys !!!). The movie had a such great impact on me that made me to watch the back-to-back shows...(Never in my life i was so beautifully moved by a theme(story) and sparkling performance of Sayaji Shinde and backgound score of Illayaraja, the maestro). whenever the chips are down, the following poem of mahakavi use to haunt me, which illustrates that we need to push ourselves beyond the normal vicious circle and think beyond the mundane. Thedi Chorudhinam thindru PalaChinnanjiru kadhaigal pesi ManamVaadi thunbamiga Uzhandru PirarVaada pala seyalgal seidhu NaraiKoodikizha paruvam eidhi KodumKootruk Kiraiyenappin Maayum PalaVedikkai Manidharaip Pole NaanVeezhven endry Ninaithayo? Ninnai Sila Varangal Ketpen AvaiNere indrenakku tharuvai EndranMunnai theeyavinai payangal InnumMoolathazhindhidudhal Vendum Iniyennai Pudhiya Uyir aaki En

Hi, This is my first blog and i decided to jot down on my favourite movie. I was watching the tamil version of Sagara Sangamam a.k.a Salangai Oli . I like the scene where padmasri kamalhassan teaches/demonstrates the various forms/sampradhayams of classical indian dance in that movie and quotes the lines from abhinaya shatra, Yetho Hasta Thatho Dhrishti, Yetho Dhrishti Thatho Manaha Yetho Manaha Thatho Bhavaha, Yetho Bhavaha Thatho Rasaha” (Where hands go your eyes follow; Where your eyes go your heart follows; Where your heart goes your expression follows; Where your expression goes, there is your gift to the audience.) The crux of the scene which lucidly explains that any art form requires an absolute form of dedication/commitment from the disciple/practitioner of the art/science. There are lots of scenes which are so beautifully picturised where the art form and the protagnist's dedication has been classically captured. Due credits for the Director K Vishwanath / Maestro Illay