Jul 08

The Sound of Music!!!

Music! Isn’t it just the most marvelous thing the Lord has gifted us! The wonderful symphony of birds singing each morning, the soft whisper of the winds as they brush through the leaves.. makin’ them sing in a tune of their own! The distant call of flock of birds! The babble of the brooks! Everything seems to be orchestrated with perfect harmony and synchornization by a divine Master!
Has it ever occurred to you that somehow the nature seems to respond to your moods and whims?! I know its just my imagination.. but still! When I am upbeat and joyful (which I am most of the times..), I can feel the birds upbeat and joyful too! Not just the birds, the clouds, the squirrels, the flowers, the plants, the trees, everything!!!! It’s as if the nature is celebrating with me!!!!
So also, on the flip side of it, whenever I am sad, there seems a strange melancholy descending from the environs around me!!! I like to talk to the plants and trees! I feel they are all trying to tell me something. They are my best counsels! ‘Coz they just listen to me! Isn’t that what the best is supposed to do first of all!!! I dunno how crazy man kind wud’ve been if it wasn’t for music! It is probably one of the best sane thing in an otherwise insane world! So as my favorite band ABBA wud say… “Thank you for the music.. the songs and singing!!!” 🙂

Jul 07

The legacy of writing!!!

Has it ever occurred to you that on certain days, the mind just seems to run out of ideas! I mean.. its been almost 7 days since my last entry in the blog! Today, as I sat down to write, there seemed to be a crunch in the bag of ideas that otherwise used to overflow!!! So, I decided to write about WRITING! creative eh?
I enjoy writing (do not trust what the year old journal has to say about this… 😉 ), I enjoy playing with words! Dressing my deep felt ideas and thoughts in the razzle-dazzle of vocabulary that would probably have the reader either perplexed or spellbounded!!! (and sometimes just bored). When I was young, I used to write my own comic books!! (how cool is that!) They all had mythological themes, and I used to draw the pictures, write the dialogues and read ’em during my free time!!! As the interest matured, I started writing small books for my own amusement, that detailed on the culture and spirituality of India. My first poem, that I can recollect clearly was “Life Come to an End!” that won me a State Award. And then I started writing a lot of ’em and finally had my collection of it – “Hope and Despair”. In between I had started writing my journal chroniclin’ my life all the way, and had already finished 4 big journal books. (I thoroughly enjoyed finishing the note books.. it gave me a sense of achievement!!!)
Then for the first time “Soliloquies in Hiding” was born in paper format .. hehehehe!!! It has evolved all the way and now is here as a blog!!! Anyways, after that came a book “A Contemporary Analysis of the Characterization and Psychology of Mahabharata”. This I’d say was a rather audacious attempt by me, at such a young age!!! (I was probably 18 yrs old!) Infact I had even dared to translate a few classics to Kannada – Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. These days I have started to write more in Kannada (something which I must have done a long while ago). Poems, essays, short stories, and infact 2 novels!!! Ain’t it cool? hehehehe… yeah… its been a long journey for me as a “writer”. I don’t know how far it will continue. As I said, somedays I just seem to run out of ideas, or the urge to write just vanishes into the void!
Then again, somewhere from a distance, there is a beckonin’ call! That just seems to grow louder and louder and finally irresistable… I just have to answer it… and I collect my pen and paper.. and sit down for another legacy to start!

Jun 28

I sudina ninna januma dina!!!

ivattu nannakka mangaLana huTTida habba! ninne raatri phone maaDidde avaLa time 12:00 AM ge, phone etlE illa :(.
beLigge sumaaru 1 ghaMTe try maaDingO maaDingu… bhaava yaavdO office callnallidraMte! kaadu kaadu kaDegU sikkidlu. naanu manji together wish maaDidwi 😀 (actually naanu modalu phone maaDi wish maaDde.. aamEle manji jote conf haakiddu 😉 ). vishruth maataaDda … choooo chweeeeeeeeet aagi.. Ilallu maama aMda 😀 (Ilallu aMdre.. I love you aMta ;;) ) hehehehehe.. next time.. yaavdaadrU huDgige heegE hELbEku.. arthaanU aagbaardu.. hELlU biDbEku!!! sakkattAgirutte!!
I wish the very very very very best for my sister! All the happiness in the world and the best health! Am so lucky to have her in my life!!!

Jun 28

Vacana Saahitya mattu Shaastreeya sangeeta

monne aShTe, kannaDavE satya program nalli basavaNNa navara vacana kELde. amOghavaagi haaDidru! kELi tuMbaanE KuShi aaytu. vacana saahityavanna racane maaDiddu OdOke, artha maaDikoLLOkE, matte haaDOke sulabhavaagli annO uddESadiMda. heegirOvaaga vacanavanna heccAgi shaastreeya sangeetakke aLavaDisikoMDilla. heccAgi hiMdustaani saMgeeta idanna janapriya maaDiddu. adarallu mallikaarjuna mansur, gangu bai hanagal iMtha mahaneeyara saadhane iMdaagi vacana saahitya shaastreeya sangeetadallu kaaNisikoMDide.
karnaaTaka shaastreeya sangeetadalli daasa saahitya, bhakti racane, kRutigaLella janapriyavaadaShTu maTTige vacana saahitya aagilla. oMdu nirdiShTavaada raaga athavaa swara prakaaravilladEnE idara racane aagirOdu idakke kaaraNavEnO! nanagaMtU gottilla. aadrU bahaLa jana shaastreeya sangeeta gaayakaru vacanagaLanna haaDi innU heccu adakke exposure koTre vaasi ansutte.
eShToMdu vacanagaLu nanage baayi paaTha aagive! haaDOkaMtU sakkat KuShiyaagutte! dEvara manEli kUtu ivanna haaDOdanna kELodakke ammanige sakkat KuShi aMte 😀
vacana saahitya sangeetada kShEtradallU oLLE praadhaanyateyanna paDeyO haage aadre oLLEdu.

Jun 25

Jeevan ke safar mein raahi….

On 24th my room mate and one of my best friends left to California! Well! He got a new job, and so left on another “adventure”. And this, offset another stream of thought in me! Sure, you keep hearing the usual cliche about life being a long journey and everyone else being our co-passengers who join us and leave us as time passes (or rather as journey continues). But I have always felt that companionship is much more than this! Isn’t it about staying together always? I do not mean physical presence. I know, that’s not possible! But for two people to stay together always, there are other means isn’t it? Memories, for example!
Ever since childhood, we meet people who grow dear to us, we call ’em friends, relatives, and any other name that sounds endearing! Isn’t all this an effort by man to keep alive those associations? For that matter, even the enemies we despise are also the effort by man to keep them alive in the deep recesses of mind!
Memories of good, old and ugly, all of them grow up to become endearing to us over a period of time. Things that we cannot live without, people to love and despise when in solitude! To think back and laugh at the funny moments, cry at the sad ones and curse at ill ones! What would man do without memories? On the flip side of it, maybe he wouldn’t waste a lot of time broodin’ over them and maybe there wouldn’t be much to write in journals and blogs! hehehehe.. so with all the free time, maybe he would do more creative works!
But then what would inspire man to do these creative things?! How would man get the motivation needed to keep himself alive even after he is long gone! Memories…. you can’t live without them, you can’t live with them! Yet another new page has been added to the memories! The book grows in length and content! I know one thing for sure, the times of solitude would be packed… I have a lot of reading to do!
Meanwhile, I am just happy humming the number so wonderfully rendered by Kishore kumar..
jeevan ke safar mein raahi milte hain bichad jaane ko
aur de jaate hain yaadein tanhaayee mein tadpaane ko !

Jun 22

You’ve Got Mail!

I watched this movie probably when I was in my Engineering! When Tom Hanks is paired with Meg Ryan, I can be sure of one thing – not to bother about the story! It will be awesome! This movie, was more than awesome, it was SPLENDID with all caps 😉 .
From the opening score that crooned.. “Dreams are nothing but the wishes and a wish is just a dream.. wished to come true… ” to the final scene where Brinkley tugs on Tom’s blazer, the movie was adorable in every sense!
The playful zest of Meg Ryan, the funny and witty Tom Hanks.. wonderful script and a taut editing that never leaves the storyline hanging at any point! Ah! It’s a movie to relish. And I did relish it too.. have lost count of how many times I have watched it.
Isn’t internet a fascinating thing?! Billions of people all over the world, connected to eachother, oblivious from one another, yet somehow affecting our lives in some minute way…. responding to our feelings and emotions, identifying themselves in us, somehow everyone becomes so close when we realize this! The thing that fascinates me the most is the mystery that surrounds this whole business of internet communication ala email, chat, etc. The persons we meet, converse, mail, seem to become a part of us without either one of us ever meeting eachother in person! Is it good or is it not?! I don’t wanna answer that question, and it isn’t my purpose here too! All I wanna do is.. share the excitement one feels when someone emails us… a someone… who we feel isn’t someone!

“I’ll say goodbye
to all my sorrows and tomorrow
I’ll be on my way…
I guess the Lord Must be in New York City….. “