I went to a group music singing today.A friend invited me and I went.Thyagaraja and Panduranga Vittala songs being sung in groups.This particular friend's family is highly talented in music and they do it every year.Last year also I went.The programme started with Panduranga Vittal's songs and went on to the Pancharathna Krithi's of Thyagaraja.From 9.30 am to 12.30 it was a3 hour scintillating experience.Iam not much of a singer and so will not be sitting amidst the singing group.But we can join as the singing proceeds.
Seeing the programme and the involvement of the singers Iam happy about this country.Perhaps it is people like these singers of all hues and talents and the basic devotion that marks this event,that is the underlying binding knot of this great country.Here we see all the ladies wearing their best silk sari's for the event with all jewelleries and what not.But when they are singing somehow it transcends all the earthy affectations.The paraphernelia of an event like the flowers and the deities and the Arathi's were all there.But they are somehow able to generate a oneness through that music.
Seeing the present trend in video music I was getting worried about the earthiness of it all.But here in this event I saw girls of the same age singing with that rare insight.It was nice to know that for all that exposure on screen with varied exposure of the inane here are some youth partcipating in another variety much more soul filling than the other one.The Mridangam was by some three youngsters and we all clapped after they performed.
This again brought me to the question of what is enlightenment??
Perhaps the minute one is enlightened one may not judge the darkness left behind.I think I do have an answer here.
Blogs That I Follow.
- http://navallanga.blogspot.com
- News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
- Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
- News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
- Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
- Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.
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