Waves of Life

December 2004, will be remembered for the destruction caused by the mighty waves. It is way beyond my imagination what it would have been the plight of those people. May He give the strength to overcome.

Two other persona that passed away in that period were, MS, as she is known, M.S.Subbulakshmi and P.V.Narasimha Rao or PVN, an ex-PM.

MS's renditions of krithis, has as much amount of Bhakthi, to take the listener to depths of joy. 'Naanati Baduku Naatakamu', one of Annamacharya's is coming to my mind right now. There are so many others which are as exemplary, and I don't have an iota of knowledge to talk about them. You explore yourself.

PVN's, one of the last interview's which he had given to one of the news channel's can be read at this link. I particularly find certain sentences in them very typical of PVN and with as much wisdom. As pasted below: Q &A from:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=46723&pn=1

But don’t exaggerate. Let me word this differently. You suggested to me in the past that what we are seeing today is perhaps chapter three in our history of reforms.

Sure.

• And chapter three would not have come if chapters one and two had not been written. Now there is no controversy.

And there is also another thing... How did chapter one come? It came from 0. Maybe negative. So taking something from 50 to 100 is making it double. But if you take it from 0 to 1, how many times is it?

• It’s infinite.

Infinite, and what it really entails is a complete U-turn without seeming to be a U-turn... So the question for you to consider is: which is more difficult?

• Certainly a change is more difficult than accelerating a continuum.

That’s why it need not be laboured too much, because it’s obvious.

This post was written as of 05 Feb 05.

Riotous Colours

Riotous Colours

Back from Slumber

Yeh, it was quite a long one. One sixth of Kumbhakarna. I am back from my slumber.

Though, I have had thoughts and ideas to write about, I sometimes didn't have the mood or the time to put them in words.

What better a time than, now. Its 5 mins to 1:00 in the morning, Feb 1st, 2k5, to be woken up by the desire to write.

I'd catch up with quite a few things that swept thru the past weeks. Some of which I feel, I should write about.

Hopefully, as one of my readers told me, shorter posts would be easier to read, (though, personally I like longer ones), I've kept the posts of the coming days as drafts today. I will try posting one per day (hopefully :D)

For today, I'm also posting an edited pic of fall colours in upstate NY.