Back from a great trip to JLR Old Magazine House, Ganeshgudi, Karnataka...but more about that later. A series of misunderstandings , and a song that my friend Pavitra Jayaraman sent me, set me musing on relationships, and how proper communication is vital...

Here's the original:

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And, though I do not like remixes usually, this one is an extremely ( Read more... )

She's always been fond of "pAttu pAdavA", an old Tamizh movie song. So when she suddenly decided to put Wally the walrus to sleep (on top of a measuring scale, for some reason), I asked her to sing a lullaby and she sang the song instead!

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When I requested her to sing "jO jO", a lullaby I often sing to her, she first told me Wally was waking ( Read more... )

There are many of what I call "algorithm songs" in old tamizh film music....and this beautiful, melodious song from

"pArthAl pasi theerum" (hunger will be appeased with just a look)

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For the most of the song, the lines go, "Did X happen because of Y? Or did Y happen because of X?" with several things being X and Y...starting from the moving of ( Read more... )

I've heard this song so many times, and liked it a lot, but somehow, it's become so specially beautiful, and I'd like to share it....it touched my heart so deeply.

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O sAthI rE, tErE binA bhi kyA jInA ( Read more... )

I find that lyrics that speak of the love between a man and a woman are very beautiful indeed, and in my language, Tamizh, it is as true as for any other language ( Read more... )

When I was about to go to my tent at JLR Bannerghatta, I looked up at the full moon, serenely riding the night skies.

And the next night, when I looked out of my balcony, the moon was rising, still looking full:


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Here's a video of a lovely song, from the movie

Server Sundaram

a melodramatic tear-jerker from 1964.

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It shows the prolific and prodigiously talented music director,

M S Viswanathan (click on the wiki link to see what kind of adversity he has battled in life...it's amazing ( Read more... )

I just saw something on Facebook (I suppose a friend sent the wrong link) which showed a photo of three girls smoking, and a series of comments about them being "bad girls ( Read more... )

I am, right now, teaching two friend this Hindi song, that Latha Mangeshkar sang... "O SajnA" in 1960, for the movie "Parakh":

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I don't need to write down the Hindi words as the words are clear, and the translation, a pretty good one, appears on the video ( Read more... )

I don't know if it happens as often with Hollywood movies but Bollywood (Bombay or Mumbai, movie capital of India) certainly sets off fashions every now and then ( Read more... )