Praveen Shivashankar

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Sri Tyagaraja: Endaro mahanubhaavulu!!

January 19th is celebrated as Sri Tyagaraja Aradhana. I remember the first Tyagaraja Aradhana that I had been to was at an age of 12, in the house of my Classical music Guru, Smt. Shakuntala Iyengar. It had been a few months since I had started to go to her, inorder to learn music. I …

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Some observations from everyday life!!

Well, whoever said Life’s a roller coaster ride, had for true, lived it! (Am gettin’ good at making such quotable quotes). Well, the past few days, right after the very first week of the New Year, I had been way up above, and then took a plummetting drop to down the pit, and just when …

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Chokher Bali : Tagore’s message through a story!

Yesterday, I happened to watch a much acclaimed movie by Rituporna Ghosh – Choker Baali (Sand in the Eye). It is a movie based on an adaptation of the novel by Rabindranath Tagore – Binodini. The movie relates the tale of 2 women – Binodini and Ashalatha and their intense struggle over a man Mahendranath. …

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yoon kabhie apne aap se juda ho jaata hoonaaine ke saamne anjaan sa rehta hoonapnon se toh dUr rahtaa thaab mujhse bhi dUr rehtaa hoon! jeene ki tamanna liye jiye jA rahe thejeena kise kehte hain maalUm na tha!Ek din maut saamne aake khaDi huyimain zindagi ko alvida kehne chala tha!zindagi ne kahaa tUne mEra …

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Have you ever had to break a bad news to the family over phone? Striking a conversation then becomes the most painful task! No matter how jovial or exuberant you may try to sound, the phonyness of the entire thing becomes evident sooner than one can say “hello”! It is even more so, with parents …

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Don’t you sometimes wish for life to be a lot simpler than it is ?! Or is it that we tend to complicate matters than they could have been! I do wish I had a better understanding of all this! Even more so, a better understanding of myself! It really helps a lot to either …

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