Today i was watching the concert "An Evening in London" conducted by Sonu Nigam with the orchestral excellence of CBSO (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) at the London Coliseum, for his album " Rafi Resurrected". It was a tribute to the great singer Mohd. Rafi. It was a feast to the ears! Amongst them, Sonu happened to sing one of my favourites... Dil ke Jharoke Mein.. from the movie "Brahmachari" What a song indeed!
Great music by Shankar Jaikishan and excellent, meaningful and heart wrenching lyrics of Hasrat Jaipuri and ofcourse the melodious golden voice of Rafi..
This song is a strong one with lot of emotions- romance, anger, pain, sacrifice but still has some kind of solace in it..... Soulful lyrics! Do check it out-
Dil ke jharoke mein tujhko bitha kar
Yaadon ko teri main dulhan bana kar
Rakhunga Main dil ke paas
Mat ho meri jaan udaas...
Kal tere jalwe paraaye bhi honge
lekin jhalak mere khawabon mein hogi
phoolon ki doli mein hogi tu rukhsat
lekin mahek meri saanson mein hogi.....Dil Ke Jharoke mein....
ab bhi tere surkh honton ke pyaale
mere tasavur mein saakhi bane hain
ab bhi tere zulf ke mast saaye
birha ki dhoop mein saathi bane hain....Dil ke Jharoke Mein
meri mohabbat ko thukrade chahe
main koyi tujhse na shivka karunga
aankhon mein rehti hai tasveer teri
saari umar teri pooja karun...............Dil ke Jharoke mein...
The song can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdQKc6DXa8
Phoolon ki doli mein hogi tu rukhsat...lekin mahek meri saanson mein hogi...!
Reality Check!
During the last week , i had been eagerly waiting for Saturday to come. Firstly it was supposed to be my first experience with an NGO through the "Teach India" campaign and secondly we were supposed to be deciding about our upcoming trip !!
Come Saturday, my friend and myself set off in the quest of the centre allotted to us(Both had been allotted to the same centre) with great excitement and anticipation of something new and something new we did find indeed! We reached the area but there were so many cross roads that we just couldn't find the centre. Narrow roads, very densely populated and noisy... in this disorder how were we to find our destination?! As we were proceeding through the cross roads, all we could see were people in white kurtha and pyjama with a white cap. They were all over the place. When we were passing through a particular street, everyone around stopped what they were doing and staring at us as if we were from another planet and indeed we too felt as aliens in a foreign land! A kind of unease set around us and we had no idea as to how to find our way...
We spent almost 45 min in our search without any positive results...At one point of time, i saw a huge guy pulling 2 cows. It is a common scenario to find cows in streets here. But still i felt something different at the sight of this...but couldn't realise what. After a while, it struck me that he was actually pulling them to butcher!! There was a numbness in me... all the frustration, anger, pity became a huge ocean of emotions. Wanted to get out of there at that very moment..!
But it was not to be so. We finally found it aften umpteen calls to the co-ordinator.
When we reached the community centre, the other volunteers were already into discussion and we could not get the head and tail of it. When finally it was our chance to interact with the co-ordinator( we were the last ), we were told to choose from 5 modules that were available. After furnishing all required details, the co-ordinator suggested us to take part in the ongoing medical camp to get the touch n feel of the surroundings. Though we were not sure as to what to do, we had no other go but to attend since all the earlier volunteers had already left for it.
Our friends doing medicine had told us huge stories of these medical camps that they had been to and hence we were not very keen on going. But the co-ordinator was bent upon taking us. As if our experiences were not enough to shake us, he started sharing his experiences about working with gangsters, criminals, etc.And then we finally came near the mediacl camp.
That was one sight i will never forget ever. Those were one of the worst living conditions i have ever seen! There was literally no road. Just some space for one person to keep one foot!!Houses so tiny but completely crowded.. Open drains on both sides and people sitting and chatting next to it! Kids playing around. As we were treading along the path, a lady came grabbed my hand suddenly and i totally went bersek by this!! She had seen the doctors and was curious to know where they had come from. When she saw us, she assumed that i was one of them!! I then told her that we have come from so and so hospital and then she let us go...
When we finally arrived at the camp, it was jampacked with people and no way we could get in. So we thought it would be best to return back and with some saboob to the co-ordinator, we headed back home!!
It was a great realisation indeed. All these days i had concentrated my thoughts upon the work, i.e teaching children in this case, and not given a thought to the working conditions and the environment around which most of the work would be needed. But the reality of the situation that it is these people who need most of the help struck me. What better way to help these people than Education!.. and Teach India has really been a great initiative towards this regard!
Come Saturday, my friend and myself set off in the quest of the centre allotted to us(Both had been allotted to the same centre) with great excitement and anticipation of something new and something new we did find indeed! We reached the area but there were so many cross roads that we just couldn't find the centre. Narrow roads, very densely populated and noisy... in this disorder how were we to find our destination?! As we were proceeding through the cross roads, all we could see were people in white kurtha and pyjama with a white cap. They were all over the place. When we were passing through a particular street, everyone around stopped what they were doing and staring at us as if we were from another planet and indeed we too felt as aliens in a foreign land! A kind of unease set around us and we had no idea as to how to find our way...
We spent almost 45 min in our search without any positive results...At one point of time, i saw a huge guy pulling 2 cows. It is a common scenario to find cows in streets here. But still i felt something different at the sight of this...but couldn't realise what. After a while, it struck me that he was actually pulling them to butcher!! There was a numbness in me... all the frustration, anger, pity became a huge ocean of emotions. Wanted to get out of there at that very moment..!
But it was not to be so. We finally found it aften umpteen calls to the co-ordinator.
When we reached the community centre, the other volunteers were already into discussion and we could not get the head and tail of it. When finally it was our chance to interact with the co-ordinator( we were the last ), we were told to choose from 5 modules that were available. After furnishing all required details, the co-ordinator suggested us to take part in the ongoing medical camp to get the touch n feel of the surroundings. Though we were not sure as to what to do, we had no other go but to attend since all the earlier volunteers had already left for it.
Our friends doing medicine had told us huge stories of these medical camps that they had been to and hence we were not very keen on going. But the co-ordinator was bent upon taking us. As if our experiences were not enough to shake us, he started sharing his experiences about working with gangsters, criminals, etc.And then we finally came near the mediacl camp.
That was one sight i will never forget ever. Those were one of the worst living conditions i have ever seen! There was literally no road. Just some space for one person to keep one foot!!Houses so tiny but completely crowded.. Open drains on both sides and people sitting and chatting next to it! Kids playing around. As we were treading along the path, a lady came grabbed my hand suddenly and i totally went bersek by this!! She had seen the doctors and was curious to know where they had come from. When she saw us, she assumed that i was one of them!! I then told her that we have come from so and so hospital and then she let us go...
When we finally arrived at the camp, it was jampacked with people and no way we could get in. So we thought it would be best to return back and with some saboob to the co-ordinator, we headed back home!!
It was a great realisation indeed. All these days i had concentrated my thoughts upon the work, i.e teaching children in this case, and not given a thought to the working conditions and the environment around which most of the work would be needed. But the reality of the situation that it is these people who need most of the help struck me. What better way to help these people than Education!.. and Teach India has really been a great initiative towards this regard!
BMW Mania !!
BMW.... Does that name ring a bell somewhere?!! Offlate it has been talked about a lot in the Indian media ..... First being the judgement of the BMW hit and run case of '99. Then again in the past week it was in news for all the wrong reasons .... another hit n run case eventually resulting in casualty. If you thought that that was it, then you are wrong... Another accident involving BMW.
But what i cant understand is that in India there are thousands of accidents occuring day in and day out... I have no idea how many Marutis , Hyundais, Hondas , etc etc are involved in similar incidents and maybe even casualties in some cases. But these are not heard off on National Television.
Then how come these BMW incidents have made it to the Headlines / Breaking News category??? I have no idea. But the possibilities that i can think of can be :
1. Since these incidents are in quick succession with the high profile BMW hit n run case judgement , the media is trying to cash upon the issue since it is still very fresh in the viewer's memory.
2. Since a car like BMW is generally owned by the elite class of the society, all this publicity may be a means to bring them under the hands of law.
3. ..... Not finding any other sane enough reason .....U've got any??
Its high time media houses start reporting something more important, responsible, credible and liable instead of such issues to gain more viewership in this cut-throat competitive field of business!
But what i cant understand is that in India there are thousands of accidents occuring day in and day out... I have no idea how many Marutis , Hyundais, Hondas , etc etc are involved in similar incidents and maybe even casualties in some cases. But these are not heard off on National Television.
Then how come these BMW incidents have made it to the Headlines / Breaking News category??? I have no idea. But the possibilities that i can think of can be :
1. Since these incidents are in quick succession with the high profile BMW hit n run case judgement , the media is trying to cash upon the issue since it is still very fresh in the viewer's memory.
2. Since a car like BMW is generally owned by the elite class of the society, all this publicity may be a means to bring them under the hands of law.
3. ..... Not finding any other sane enough reason .....U've got any??
Its high time media houses start reporting something more important, responsible, credible and liable instead of such issues to gain more viewership in this cut-throat competitive field of business!
Karnataka Bhagawatha
This has been pending for a long time now.....The ‘Bhagawatha’ is a derivative of the Mahabharata. There is a saying that after Vyasa completed Mahabharatha, he felt very unsatisfied with himself. When Narada Maharshi came to know about this, he suggested Vyasa to write Bhagawatha. That is when Vyasa was fully satisfied with himself.Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the transcendental science not only for knowing the ultimate source of everything but also for knowing our relation with Him and our duty toward perfection of the human society on the basis of this perfect knowledge.There is also another ‘Bhagawatha’ written in 1755 AD in Halegannada by Ramannaiah of Holalkere village, which is now in Chitradurga District of Karnataka. This ancient scripture had been in the dark all along and was recently discovered by his great great great great grandsons(4th order of grandson).One amongst them was Prof.H.R.Chandrasekhar working as the Chair of the Dept of Physics at the University of Missouri. He studied these scripts over a period of 16 years with various scientific studies and discussions. All his hardwork culminated into a 2 volume book containing nearly 13000 poems.
This book series was presented to the public in Bangalore on 6 July,2008 at Dr.H.N.Kalakshetra, National College,Jayanagar,Bangalore and was presided over by Prof.G.Venkatasubbaiah, who is a renowned Kannada lexicographer.The releasing of the book was done by Sri.A.R. Sethuramarao.There was also Gamakavaachana of some poems by Sri. M.R. Sathyanarayana.
Some of the videos of the book release function can be found below :
1.Book release at Bangalore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzac3FcNqXY
2.Gamakavaachana
M.R.Sathyanarayana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdOdKcelCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMDggOhw0pw
Sukanya Prabhakar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WPoOIDuKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB1mlrRdJQI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjhp4Law77A
3.Some articles in Press
http://www.cscsarchive.org/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/BF8ED82803B5CAF46525694200313CE6
http://www.deccanherald.com/CONTENT/Jul222008/spectrum2008072180107.asp
4.H.R.Chandrasekhar's home page
http://web.missouri.edu/~chandrasekharh/vita.html
P.S : Chandra is my Great Uncle (Grandfather's brother)
Mission of Times Of India...
For a long time now, we were subscribing to "The Hindu" newspaper. Even by spending hours in a day, we were unable to complete all its content. The Times Of India had just started to become a rage amongst the public. Later on, people around used to discuss it and i was tempted to try it out. We got it for a few days and it seemed to be more user friendly with lots of pictures for info etc.Then i fought with my dad and started subscribing to TOI instead of Hindu.Nowadays i wonder it was indeed a wise enough decision!
Coming to the reasons that are making me question myself, i dont think TOI is really concerned for the issues of the general public / major population of India. Nowadays all that you see in the paper are large photographs of celebrities, glamour, gossip, bitching, entertainment,etc. Also the headlines are made of slangs and funky sentences that are understood by only a small percentage of people and will leave majority of the population wondering what it actually meant?!! To provide a few instances,
The supplement Bangalore times, is an utter waste of resources. For a month now, BT publishes huge columns pertaining to Govt's decision to close discotheques by 11pm. This seems ridiculous to me! What percentage of people do actually go to these discos n pubs ?? Not even 5-10% of the entire population. In such a condition, why should this issue be made a major one when actually there are so many issues plaguing the Bangalore Society?! There are serious issues like infrastructure, garbage disposal, education, health,pollution, etc and all we see is huge columns with pics on why fashion and pubs are important! Is that what a National Newspaper is encouraging the youth of the country to do and look up to?
The young minds are easily influenced and i dont think a developing nation like India should be encouraging its youth in this manner. The easy fame and buck, glamour will lure any growing mind.A recent Microsoft srvey on the youth of India has come up with a report stating that major percentage of the youth in India are inclined towards fashion, glamour, quick money . Amongst those who are inclined towards studies, majority of them are satisfied getting a job which pays them well with work much below their mental capacity! What a shame !!
With TOI being the largest selliing daily, it should take more moral responsibility and work towards influencing people so as to bring about betterment in the society rather than just gossip and follow celebrities! There are better things to be aped from the West!
Coming to the reasons that are making me question myself, i dont think TOI is really concerned for the issues of the general public / major population of India. Nowadays all that you see in the paper are large photographs of celebrities, glamour, gossip, bitching, entertainment,etc. Also the headlines are made of slangs and funky sentences that are understood by only a small percentage of people and will leave majority of the population wondering what it actually meant?!! To provide a few instances,
The supplement Bangalore times, is an utter waste of resources. For a month now, BT publishes huge columns pertaining to Govt's decision to close discotheques by 11pm. This seems ridiculous to me! What percentage of people do actually go to these discos n pubs ?? Not even 5-10% of the entire population. In such a condition, why should this issue be made a major one when actually there are so many issues plaguing the Bangalore Society?! There are serious issues like infrastructure, garbage disposal, education, health,pollution, etc and all we see is huge columns with pics on why fashion and pubs are important! Is that what a National Newspaper is encouraging the youth of the country to do and look up to?
The young minds are easily influenced and i dont think a developing nation like India should be encouraging its youth in this manner. The easy fame and buck, glamour will lure any growing mind.A recent Microsoft srvey on the youth of India has come up with a report stating that major percentage of the youth in India are inclined towards fashion, glamour, quick money . Amongst those who are inclined towards studies, majority of them are satisfied getting a job which pays them well with work much below their mental capacity! What a shame !!
With TOI being the largest selliing daily, it should take more moral responsibility and work towards influencing people so as to bring about betterment in the society rather than just gossip and follow celebrities! There are better things to be aped from the West!
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