Music is divine...

The recent times have been bad for music lovers.One after the other,musical icons passed away.First Michael Jackson, then Carnatic doyenD.K.Pattammal and recently Gangubai Hangal.Each one of these talents and geniuses in their respective genres.And what distresses more is that they all were undoubtedly members of a dying tribe.Tribe? Geniuses? Sure! Prodigies in their life time? Sure! Famous ? Of course! But most importantly what strikes about musicians of their calibre is their passion when they perform.

No,not like the "out on your face" artificial display of passion, by a lot of today's "musicians", but a serene expression of bliss almost divine which makes us believe that these are indeed blessed souls.I have been held in raptures by the divine glow on Pandit Ravi shankar's face while playing the sitar,or the devotion evident on M.S.subbalakshmi's face when she sings a kriti. Seeing Lata mangeshkar perform in live concerts still gives me goose bumps.

Can we boast of any such musicians who could inspire such awe?Perhaps because, today music just serves as a ladder to fame and money and ceases to be a lifelong dedication , a love affair.This also explains the bliss of the faces of certain musicians when they perform.It is almost as if they had just that one moment to live.No wonder these musicians live on long after they are dead and gone.

Moneybags anyone????

RBI has decided to introduce 10 rupee coins soon. Industry has welcomed the decision saying that once this happens consumers will shell out 10 rupee coins without hesitation.( All in the mind....coins seem insignificant right?)
It happenened so when 5 rupee coins were introduced.People did not think twice before shelling out a extra five rupees for their purchases!

Smart thinking people I must say! But then what next?

Can we expect 20...50 ....100 rupee coins? Just imagine how it would be then? Paper money is just a modern invention.It took years for it to come to the form it has.Earlier ages ago, people were carrying metal money....gold coins, silver coins,broze coins...etc etc....I wonder will we soon be carrying moneybags?
Metal money to paper money...and now back to metal money.Interesting thought this is...

We may not be Mr.Bachchan ,but listen to us also...

We may not be Mr.Amitabh Bachchan, but we also need our civic woes to be listened to.It seems Mumbai's most famous resident wrote in his blog about the water clogging problem at his bungalow in Juhu and lo and behold, Mumbai municipal officials were at his doorstep explaining what went wrong and why the water clogging took place.

Municipal babu sahebs, we keep explaining to you guys what is wrong and you pretend to be deaf .Why so? Can we not have legitimate problems that deserve to be looked into?

There are residential localities with roads filled up with potholes, drains overflowing, not to mention that water clogging is a usual phenomenon in most of the areas in Bangalore whenever it rains heavily.Yet we common people are never blessed with a "darshan" by our municipal authorities in spite of our repeated entreaties. The day they react to our problems like they did to Big B's, our country will never be the same. Touch wood.