Mozart of Madras

I am proud to be a fan of the Award-Winning Music Director, A.R. Rehman. Talented yet humble, Rehman and Sachin are the typical examples of how real skill behaves in public. What more, he spoke a few words which made my hair jump away from its follicle. First time, he spoke in Tamil, I was very happy to hear my mother tongue on the Oscar Stage, Second, He spoke about the choice of Love and Hate, and where Love has taken him. Wow… I am not sure how many of the millions of viewers across the globe watching that show live would have digested this message as I did, But I was thrilled.

On my way to drop my wife, she said… "You are humming that song Jai Ho.." Was I??? Oh yeah… okay… I asked her, "What's the meaning of Jai Ho?" She said its "something like victory, or Go win and come" kinds. Wow, I think Gulzar(The Lyricist) had predicted this long back.
People said, "We don’t have to be so happy, this is not an Indian Film, some one came from there used our story and he is getting all the money…" So what, we don’t just need money, do we? We needed some one to win an Oscar for India. I was hoping for long that Kamalhasan will win that first. But that possibility was always remote, considering the Academy's procedures. But I am even more happy to see Rehman win it, Now he will get more offers for Hollywood movies, his nominations would become every year affair, and he will win much more than we imagine. With the trend of music getting popular, more music directors would get opportunities

He has taken Indian music to a different level, we don’t have to wait for the concerts of Michael Jackson and Bryan Adams in India. USA and Europe will wait for Rehman to conduct his concert there. There will be a day, when my manager will tell me that he got the latest Rehman's Music CD before I did. Wow… would I still be downloading that of Torrentz? Nah, Shame!! But for now, I am Proud. Jai Ho...!!!

Valentine’s Day

Though it’s just another day in the calendar, Feb 14^th has gained a lot of importance in the recent past. Love is not new to this world, We can see the evidence of love from Adam & Eve(If they were true) or from the evolution of sexual reproduction. Mysterious thing love...Do we really need a day to celebrate love? May be we can do without it, but what harm can a little more love do to this world. If it is another day for the mankind to forget about their problems and live in happiness with their love, why not allow it?

Muthalik, A man (is he?) who has gained a lot of publicity for the wrong reasons, preaching the wrong culture to the youth and that too, forcibly. His followers are desperate psychos trying to let go the animal instincts in them to unleash with a stupid reason and purpose. Going to a Pub is “Freewill by law”, beating them for going is “Free-will against law”. The law should protect Freedom and freewill by law by acting on freewill against law. When law cannot stand up, Freewill and freedom will rise up to protect itself. Though not desirable, that is an eventuality. The government would do well to crush these miscreants at sight that would prevent a lot of embarrassment for the govt. Due to vote bank politics, BJP does not want to be seen as acting against “Hindu Culture Lovers” at the same time, does not want to be seen as encouraging them which would be un-“SECULAR”. Bull crap, we should have a political system which does not depend on vote bank politics. Democracy fails here. Making preventive arrests is the best thing they ever did. That doesn’t nullify the home

 minister’s comments.

Pink chaddi Campaign... a show of anger and frustration on an illegal act, in the most unprofessional way. Do you think it solves the problem? Mind you, I will be surprised if it doesn’t cause more. Why should we hurt someone’s ego in public? If Muthalik decides to be smart, he will create sympathy on him and his Sena as victimized for trying to protect a non-existent but most-believed culture. A wrong cannot be corrected by another wrong. It can bring momentary pleasure for the pink chaddi senders. But it will aggravate the anger against the free men. Send him love, send him roses, greeting cards, chocolates, pastries, sweets etc., etc., make him realise what we mean by love. Heaven sake doesn’t settle for a chaddi. I would have thought that as the act of spreading love. Why settle for spreading hatred.

Regarding Siva sena and Bajrang Dal creating problem for people spreading love today, it is obvious, they want their share of publicity. They are least interested in the Indian culture, they just need the publicity that is easy to get, they found their leader in Ram Sena.

If the day is for love, better spread that. If Muthalik wants, we can celebrate a day for spreading hatred. With the state govt’s support, they can name it as Muthalik’s day. Everyone can find their own muthaliks and gift them with Chaddis and beat them in public. How silly can we get? Stop it guys...

Got together - Some things never change, but some things do

Last weekend we had a long awaited Get-together of my Delliberates-Unplugged team. I’ve been planning to host them all at my place since November. But thanks to some of their Vacations and my exams, it got delayed by a couple of months, honestly, it’s worth a wait. Eddie and Quarter along with Viv and Queen were the first to arrive. Ass-ok was closely followed by me with the food. Zula and Keerthi came on Asif-bhai-Kairiyath-ah?’s tail. I took the curious few for a guided tour of the house which was promptly captured on a video by Ed. Tension Sharma(Dev) a subject of Vivek’s long distance spitting came along with Banali at 2:45.(Didn’t we miss Amar to send the login-logout report?) He was the most awaited person as some were having the ‘war of the intestines’. Food was waiting for almost 2 hours; it was so cold that the milkshake had become Ice-cream for the desert. My pulao and Queen’s last minute salad were the first to get over.
After some chatting, lunch and fight for the remote, we settled for a Karaoke Session. Keerthi chaired the session with his googling skills for lyrics. All who had the liking to sing were sharing their voice. Overall it was a mess, never the less, enjoyable. Keerthi was literally singing to the tunes of Zula who was captured swishing her finger. As the divide between the participants and audience grew, we called it a song and moved on to play Dumb-sherads. It was all fun as we played. The highlights were, Ashok losing a point when he was trying to show “IN” with his finger entering some tunnel, and Queen guessing the movie even before Keerthi signaled ‘one word movie’. As time was ticking fast, we had to end it there.
Panna was expected to settle scores(thanks to Vivek) was doing that on his bed. At 2 PM he said he will be here in 30 mins, but at 3 he was still snoring. Mrs. Subashini was not able to make it as Sanjeev was out of town, and Niyath was not healthy enough to come over. However tough my rules are, I am always lenient on leaves. Their leaves were granted, half-heartedly. Amar was on planned vacation flying. Better luck next time.
The title should come somewhere during this blog. Here it is, some things never change – Deliberates and Fun are always synonymous, but some things do change, in fact did, I hope it’s for good.
Sahana, Navitha and Sandy were proud and happy to host the get-together. We thank all who made our day unforgettable. When everyone was packing up, we decided to capture the group on camera. Once a few timed-pictures were clicked, we parted to live happily ever after. :-)

Top of the world

Yeah, it’s me… and I am starting a blog. Thanks to those who inspired me either through their own blogs or through their acts which is worth a mention in my blog. I am all pepped up to write a note every hour on my blog. But due to my workload at home, office and on the way, I might be able to write only one when I find time. I am convinced that even the readers may not have time to go through such a boring (though not intentional) blog quite often. Being considerate I am determined not to ask you “Did you read my blog?” when I call up the next time. Even you can avoid such a question by leaving a comment- SO, NO PRESSURE. I am still thinking what to write, only to realize that I have already written one, so simple?!?! Welcome to Sandy’s World Top.