Daily

Nothing like a good Tull CD, a book on Steve Jobs, laptop on the lap...tracing data on companies on the net. Repetetive and mundane tasks tend to get easy with all these add ons :)
This is awesome weather to be here or to go on short week end outings around Bombay... Lovin it!

World Music

I have no idea why seasoned stage performers especially belonging to the South Indian "factory" of prodigies refuse to learn proper English, practice the introduction or better still have a professional compere take over the role...

A sweet repetoire of music got a little on my nerves thanks to the bad presentation by the main guy. The Brazilian pianist and Fazal were both amazing and looked like 2 shiny diamonds set with some okie doke stones...I guess a genetic quirk gives all the three brothers a naughty but obvious intelligence that is very endearing. A morning after a good music concert always feels good but in this weather it feels like a blessing.

An evening with a sweet friend who tries hard to scare me with her negativity but at the same time pushes me to be positive about my stupid issues is just so beautiful as well.

Thank you.

Mukta

I do think Mukta's posts make me feel more alive than just about anything else in my world today. Thank God for both, Mukta and my life. :)
The girl is poetic beyond belief and words just flow... Perfect.

The Engineer Brahmins

Another friend of my family donated large sums of money to ensure that the "Brahmin" way of life continues. I wonder why these engineers who make big money by forsaking all that the original Tamil Brahmin lived on in the ages past wants poor or orphaned young boys to continue that way of life. These guys themselves moved across the seven seas, built a fortune or worked some place else and then they come back home or better still just sit there and send money to keep the Vedas alive. Why should a child follow the old rituals just so you can claim that you have paid back to your roots? I wonder...Will any of them even teach some basic stuff to their own children?

They expect them to learn the Sanskrit scripture by rote with no thought given to explaining anything just so that the future continues to have a gurukkal in all the new temples that we build and a Brahmin to conduct his grand children's wedding in the true Tambram style...even if said grandson is marrying a Australian or maybe, God willing another Indian at best..certainly not much chance he would marry another Tam bram...

God, how will you quell this hypocrisy? I rather prefer all those uncles of the past who retire from a life well lived and well traveled, and make a conscious choice at 60 to learn what they did not learn earlier..that is a choice you make for yourself. Not just foisting it on some poor soul who expects that you give him food not for some selfish purpose but because it is your duty and his right to life.