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Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Yeh jo des hai tera...
A song from Swades. This is one of my favorite song now. It is almost three months since i reached the United States. It is not that I like this song since i have become a "Desi". It is just that i heard the song recently and i do feel that I have missed it for so long.
As far as I am concerned, there are songs in my life, which indicates a transition. A physical transition leads to a mental transition. I kept moving through different places in India and each such transition had a different effect. It is just the fear of a new place and the kind of effort I need to put to adapt to the new place.
This often led to remembering the early days at the new place and I also somehow ended up in relating to a song. This song would mostly be from a new movie released during that time (of course there are exceptions).
I well remember the songs from "Kaho na pyar hai" from my first year at my UG college. As one passed through the hostel corridor, all rooms on both sides had computer playing the songs from this movie.
It was "Uyirin Uyire" or "Ennai konjam matri" from the tamil movie "Kakka Kakka" during my PG years. I had moved to TamilNadu now and it had to be a tamil movie.
It was "Ghajini" (Tamil), when i joined my job. Almost all of my collegues in my training batch had a cell phone and songs from this movie. No wonder that songs represented this transition from college to job.
After almost three and half years, being in the same company and in the same place, things were pretty monotonous. Now coming to the United States was a change. Almost a week after i reached here, I stumbled upon this song in youtube searching for some other AR Rahman's songs, and that was it. It is this song for this transition.
I seriously do not know what or when the next transition is going to be and what song is going to represent it. I am waiting for it to unfold whenever it is supposed to. I am sure, people who read this also will start to map songs to their past and i swear it is going to bring back a lot of old memories.
As far as I am concerned, there are songs in my life, which indicates a transition. A physical transition leads to a mental transition. I kept moving through different places in India and each such transition had a different effect. It is just the fear of a new place and the kind of effort I need to put to adapt to the new place.
This often led to remembering the early days at the new place and I also somehow ended up in relating to a song. This song would mostly be from a new movie released during that time (of course there are exceptions).
I well remember the songs from "Kaho na pyar hai" from my first year at my UG college. As one passed through the hostel corridor, all rooms on both sides had computer playing the songs from this movie.
It was "Uyirin Uyire" or "Ennai konjam matri" from the tamil movie "Kakka Kakka" during my PG years. I had moved to TamilNadu now and it had to be a tamil movie.
It was "Ghajini" (Tamil), when i joined my job. Almost all of my collegues in my training batch had a cell phone and songs from this movie. No wonder that songs represented this transition from college to job.
After almost three and half years, being in the same company and in the same place, things were pretty monotonous. Now coming to the United States was a change. Almost a week after i reached here, I stumbled upon this song in youtube searching for some other AR Rahman's songs, and that was it. It is this song for this transition.
I seriously do not know what or when the next transition is going to be and what song is going to represent it. I am waiting for it to unfold whenever it is supposed to. I am sure, people who read this also will start to map songs to their past and i swear it is going to bring back a lot of old memories.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
My space..
The entire structure was crumbled. The majestic circular dome which rested on four strong pillars was lying on the sand. The broken pillars lay scattered around the dome. The dome tried its level best to stay majestic in spite of the salty sea water, trying to wash away the smooth and shining structure. Being near the sea in Tranquebar (or Taragambadi in Tamil), Tamilnadu, the entire structure seemed to be an old one built centuries ago and had seen many natural calamities. But 2004 was a different one. The sudden waves of tsunami bought the entire structure down in seconds.
Now it lay on the shore, washed by the sea daily. The pillar was not as smooth as the dome. Some supposed to be old form of Tamil was inscribed on it. It seemed to convey a message to the people, waiting to be discovered and protected. It was waiting to convey to the world, the life of the people who wrote on that pillar and those who built the magnificent structure.
Since the old times, many things have changed. The life and culture of people have changed a lot in both positive and negative way. Blogs are one of those pillars which reflects the life and times of “now”, with the advantage of being written by many people around the world. Just as the pillar rested on the sea shore, I sometimes wonder, where do these blogs sit? It should be spread across the world and some place which will redirect to it on request. What if one day another tsunami hits this place where the blog resides? Will things remain the same? How will people 200 hundred years later know about us and the life we lived?
Though the old inscriptions on the pillar and the new blogs both are written on sand (real sand and silicon), will the latter survive nature?
Now it lay on the shore, washed by the sea daily. The pillar was not as smooth as the dome. Some supposed to be old form of Tamil was inscribed on it. It seemed to convey a message to the people, waiting to be discovered and protected. It was waiting to convey to the world, the life of the people who wrote on that pillar and those who built the magnificent structure.
Since the old times, many things have changed. The life and culture of people have changed a lot in both positive and negative way. Blogs are one of those pillars which reflects the life and times of “now”, with the advantage of being written by many people around the world. Just as the pillar rested on the sea shore, I sometimes wonder, where do these blogs sit? It should be spread across the world and some place which will redirect to it on request. What if one day another tsunami hits this place where the blog resides? Will things remain the same? How will people 200 hundred years later know about us and the life we lived?
Though the old inscriptions on the pillar and the new blogs both are written on sand (real sand and silicon), will the latter survive nature?
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