Archive for March, 2010

The best thing happened to NYC perhaps is its musicians! Some are known, many are unknown..they sing in the bright and dark corners of subway stations, while trains and crowd bustle about. Genres surprisingly range from Blues to Bhajan, Classical to Techno! Whichever, they make you smile, they make you stop, they make you sway, they make you sing and of course they make you miss several of those trains!

Charles, a lone musician on his trumpet. Quiet an accidental find of Charles in 2005.

Tinpan, the blues band also part of MTA’s official Arts for Transit programme.

and a Bhajan troupe, who gifted me a book called ‘Moksha-Beyond Birth & Death’..

Published in Madhyamam weekly (March 22, 2010). Thank you so much Sajeesh!

Two uncredited publishing, left one in ‘Development issue- Sasthragathi, Nov 2009′, right one in ‘K N Raj issue -Malayalam Varika, 26th Jan 2010′. I would continue to request ‘attribution’ wherever necessary.

Here’s to the historic women’s bill passed in the upperhouse today! Tribute to one of my favourite characters ‘Pathumma and her goat‘ written in 1959 by Malayalam writer Basheer.

“Basheer’s sister Pathumma, who lived in a dilapidated shack a little distance away, would visit the house everyday with her daughter Khadeeja and with them would come Pathumma’s goat. This goat had absolute freedom in the house. It would eat up anything it could, from fallen leaves before someone came to sweep them, Chaambaykka fruits from the lower branches of the tree Basheer planted, trousers worn by Basheer’s nephew Abi, grass specially gathered for it, food set away for it, even food meant for human inhabitants of the house…to the author’s copy of newest editions of Basheer’s Baalyakaalasakhi, Shabdangal and Vishwavikhyaadamaaya Mookku, fresh out of press.”