The morning was just perfect today. Skies overcast with dense dark clouds, layers upon layers of heavy moisture laden ones coming in from the Southwest. It had rained through the night and there was a wonderful, energizing light breeze that got the mind, soul, spirits and body upbeat and gave me a dopamine surge. Choco…
I have always believed in the therapeutic power of music. It does to the stressed and troubled soul what drops of rain do to baked, parched and cracked earth. Raindrops not only slake the thirst of the earth but also leave behind Petrichor. Good music pacifies one’s soul and troubled mind, leaving an engram that…
The morning dawned languorously with me getting up after 6, courtesy Choco who kept on snoring and led me to believe it was a much earlier hour. The Jute paper Toygers who have contributed to maximum infiltration into India were soundly thrashed yet again, as is a habit with that useless team (imagine an upstart…
I remember watching this movie with Aruna in the Ambar-Oscar-Minor complex when the movie released. This was the first meaningful movie made by Mahesh Bhatt who was at the time monetizing his personal life. Actually films before and after the phase were pretty much the masala movies and nothing very much to write about. But…
I saw a large predator on a branch at my weekend home who posed for me..After seeing the look on the camera, I thought the bird was telling me something. I thought of this amazing song that has stayed in my heart for more than half a century..A movie which had memorable roles by the…
After getting lost in the picture of the sunset and writing a few words on it, I remembered all the beauteous sunsets and sunrises I’ve seen and tried to capture through my lens over the years. Must be at least many hundreds of these, if not more. These moments leave behind a calming influence on…
I woke up to relatively clear skies. We have been drenched in the recent past with (for Pune) unbelievable amounts of rain. If I say that we had received more than 40% ( More than two fifths) of the annual rainfall by the 8th of June, you’ll probably get a better perspective. After the drought…
I woke up in the morning and saw a video clip on a group started by a patient who’s based in Germany. A wonderful folk song that I must have heard more than 50 years ago. A story about the eternal love triangle. https://youtu.be/al6gWvB2Gp8?si=X6t3tjAIrgDAHk_L The song is called (Hang your head down) Tom Dooley and…
She is my favourite actress of all time, and would have been 88 today. She was indescribably beautiful with chiselled fine features, extremely expressive eyes and the grace and poise of a princess confident of her place in the universe..Born to a beauteous actress and an artist who produced films, she was christened Nutan. A…
I was introduced to the rich world of ghazals by my older uncle who in the late 60s and early 70s had a wonderful sound system with a spool tape recorder/player at its heart. I had first heard ghazals when visiting his home. In 1974 my cousin Raviprakash Gurjar came to stay with us for…