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Sangeet Sarita: A time to listen

Sangeet Sarita: A time to listen

the best thing about music is, it is universal and secular. Simply said, it means you need no education or background,money, race or colour, religion or language to enjoy it across the world.I agree, it is real trite to further add and complicate by saying – one never understands music but has only to feel it – that is the stepping stone.All else follows, thereafter. Classical Indian music,…

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I am not a Marxist-Marx

I am not a Marxist-Marx

Since the birth of the October Russian Revolution of the last century, the powerful capitalist world has worked tirelessly to counter, resist or overthrow its ideology and practice.Despite the two Great Wars,the socialist ideology upon which another world was being created managed to survive.But almost seven decades into it the Soviet Union had collapsed and much of the socialist world including…

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गुरु शिष्य परंपरा ।

गुरु शिष्य परंपरा ।

Today is Guru Poornima -a day for respect and gratitude between the “Guru”and his “Shishya”.All of us have over time been in both these shoes.Only the periods may have been different. As for me I would like to be a shishya perhaps for my lived life.Notwithstanding,we do come across all kinds of pupils and instructors or students and teachers. And it is as the author says”across disciplines and…

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WhatsApp Chat with Zindabad!

Chat history is attached as “WhatsApp Chat with Zindabad!” file to this email.

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Do You Want to Join the Defence Services : Part 1 : 12 Unique Military Attributes

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Walk, Don't Run

Walk, Don’t Run

I have never tired out of this story ever.Having heard Ventures and the iconic “walk,don’t run” and known it to be quite the grapes to thirsty lips,yet each time I listen to it it is like getting wet in the first rains Shivering,yes.But,not out of the chill but the frisson of excitement and pure joy. It takes me back to a time when my friends and I were just fourteen or fifteen gathering up and…

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May,the Second 2021 : Ray,Mamata and I

May,the Second 2021 : Ray,Mamata and I

Born in the year 1955,my life’s journey had begun -part serendipitous.This was the year Pather Panchali was made when Ray had introduced Bengal and the Bengali to India and the world .I grew up to be a proud Bengali without knowing its grammar, script or literature in the neighbourhood State, then called as Orissa at a place called Cuttack.Politics was my middle name since my parents were…

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In the mysterious grotto of your person, layered,slit and sculpted deep, shrub-scattered is the flower in bloom down below. Ancient and pagan, The silent lamp of love throbs and ebbs,flickers and flashes –

Ceaselessly awake. Burning away, Beckoning me. While I stand by unbeknownst

Seeking entry into the garden-gate of ecstacy, frenzied. A whirlwind of ancient storms of yearning and intimacies,

fr…

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To Commentate : the truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth

To Commentate : the truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth

It may not be far fetched to assume based on an array of otherwise unrelated events and actions in the domestic cricketing world that in the so-called recent cleaning up of the BCCI on the basis of the Lodha Committee recommendations, its aftermath and coronation of Saurav Ganguly as its President with the return of the usual suspects it has become business as usual in a more favourable and…

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Doctor in Times of the Carona Virus

Dr Noburu Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama), trained in the Dutch medical techniques at Nagasaki, finds treating the slum-dwellers, full of fleas and lice, below his specialty and unremunerative.In fact he was promised to be appointed as the doctor for a powerful Shogun and not dumped to some worthless General Clinic. His senior resident Dr Tsugawa (Tatsuyoshi Ehara) gently chides him as he shows him around…

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More than Half the Sky

Of late, I am not sure of who they are, why they are so and how do they become so. And do they change the times we live in? I am conflicted.

Heroes do not make history alone.But, it is seen that very often men and women as individuals and sometimes in groups within the same society are able to see, feel and act in ways which are way ahead of the prevailing times, even before the large masses…

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Ganguly - the Road to Perdition or Coming of Age?

It was common knowledge that BCCI was fast becoming the new Alladin's cave of goodies where mountebanks and professional bounty hunters, management gurus,financial wizards,failed stock-brokers and legal disasters, disguised as cricketers, were making a bee-line for the quick buck or wait to run plenty scams.

A host of articles some connected andsome not got me thinking to revisit some of my earlier thoughts on these and related matters.Importantly,it would get me to scribble some more and maybe get better doing that. So here it goes as under :

Ashish Magotrahas balls to show, especially, when speaking lies and fakery is almost universal.In the sacking of Manjrekar, nay, completion of engagement of…

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while I was sleeping

while I was sleeping

“Comrade,What’s up?Stay safe,” my good friend Doc buzzed  flying out of Delhi .Friends and family kept calling equally concerned.I had no clue of these missives.Was bemused as I do not watch TV and remain closeted indoors – only to move as far as my Mayur Vihar Pan shop for an occasional puff. Business seemed ,the usual.The Twitteratti on my mobile was still quiet except for the faithful who were…

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Kejriwal- tactics or collaboration?

🔖One is so fed up with Congress that it’s ghosts still scare even the Ramsay brothers.The Left is so wasted they seem to not exist.What is after that are some regional leaders of substance and ardour and a withering opposition lost in a Mela.But,truth be told,in the national imagination Modi’s ubiquitous image has become an – avoidable must. His fans however,can take heart – for he has still some…

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Kejriwal a Meta Modi clone?

🔖One is so fed up with Congress that it’s ghosts still scare even the Ramsay brothers.The Left is so wasted they seem to not exist.What is after that are some regional leaders of substance and ardour and a withering opposition lost in a Mela.But,truth be told,in the national imagination Modi’s ubiquitous image has become an – avoidable must. His fans however,can take heart – for he has still some…

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A Bharat Ratna or not?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/23/weekend.adrianlevy?CMP=share_btn_wa

Horrororror!Horror! was the insane cry of a Col Kurtz in Apocalypse Now on seeing the inhuman carnage in Vietnam.That moment had remained frozen in the recesses of my memory, forever.Tragically,that sense of Hell seemed to spring yet again while going through this heart – wrenching narrative graphically told…

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Mahavir Singh (revolutionary) - Wikipedia

Mahavir Singh (revolutionary) – Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavir_Singh_(revolutionary)#/media/File%3AMahavir_Singh_freedom_fighter_Statue_.jpg