Some light moments from the game Indians are mad about ….. don’t know whether these actually happened, but thought these are worth sharing:
1) Boycott was facing a torrid over from Micheal Holding . After playing his first 5 deliveries somehow, he got out bowled the last ball. When Boycott entered the dressing room, one of his teammates remarked something about the supposedly best test opener of his times.
Pat came Boycott’s reply: “If it wasn’t for Boycott, England would have been 0/6 by the end of that over”.
2) “Man, it don’t matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero.” -Viv Richards to Sunil Gavaskar at Madras 1983.
Gavaskar had decided to relinquish his opening position and come in at no 4 for that test. But, Malcolm Marshall fired out Anshuman Gaekwad and Dilip Vengsarkar for ducks, setting the stage for Gavaskar to walk in at 0/2. And he thought there would be less pressure!
3) Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a superb outswinger, and Thomas said “It’s red, round and weighs about 5 ? ounces.”
Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground for a 6 and replies, “Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it ! !”
4) Fred Trueman bowling. The batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip, and right between Raman Subba Row’s legs. Fred doesn’t say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly – “I should’ve kept my legs together, Fred”.The reply is classic Trueman, “Not you son, Your mother should’ve ! ! “
5) Then there’s this wicketkeeper who quietly asked the new batsman: “So how’s your wife, and my kids ? ?” Guess who………Rod Marsh….to Ian Botham!!
6) New Zealand vs South Africa: Daryll Cullinan was batting, attempting a comeback from a complete bamboozling from Warne in earlier games. Cullinan played the first ball from Chris Harris very carefully back down the pitch, and keeper Parore yelled out “Well bowled Warnie !!”
7) Australia fighting for a win nearing the end of a Test Match, Fred Trueman at the crease. The Aus captain has plenty of close in fielders, whose shadows fall on the wicket. Fredie finds this objectionable. ‘Ere, if you lads don’t back off, I’ll appeal for bad light !!”
(Incident described in “From the Pavilion End” by Harold “Dickie” Bird)“Bomber” Wells, a spin bowler and great character, played for Glocuestershire and Nottinghamshire. He used to bat at No.11 since one couldn’t bat any lower. Of him, they used to paraphrase Compton’s famous words describing an equally inept runner; “When he shouts ‘YES’ for a run, it is merely the basis for further negotiations!”
Incidentally, Compton was no better. John Warr said, of Compton “He was the only person who would call you for a run and wish you luck at the same time.” Anyway, when Wells played for Gloucs, he had an equally horrendous runner as the No.10.
During a county match, horror of horrors…….both got injured. Both opted for runners when it was their turn to bat. Bomber played a ball on the off, called for a run, forgot he had a runner and ran himself. Ditto at the other end. In the melee, someone decided that a second run was on. Now we had all four running. Due to the confusion and constant shouts of “YES” “NO”, eventually, all of them ran to the same end.
Note: At this point in time, the entire ground is rolling on the floor laughing their behinds out.
One of the fielders – brave lad – stops laughing for a minute, picks the ball and throws down the wicket at the other end.
Umpire Alec Skelding looks very seriously at the four and calmly informs them “One of you buggers is out. I don’t know which. You decide and inform the bloody scorers !”
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Krishna and Mahabharatha - Intresting
A breathtaking piece of info : Courtesy My Friend Mr . Kulkarni ...
Krishna and Mahabharata : Historical realityBy Desh (Aug. 31, 2009)Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician from UK is making a movie on Krishna as a historic figure. Pandit has based his movie on dates and timelines coming out of scientific based research by credible evidence based on Archeology, Astronomy and Linguistics, apart from Oral evidence from Indian tradition.Mahabharat War started onNovember 22, 3067 BC. This comes out of astronomical evidence. And the astronomical juxtapositions are not arbitrary or those that could happen in any decade or such... but some of them have not happened since. They are THAT rare a phenomenon. Saturn at RohiniandMars at Jyesthawith two eclipses -a Lunar eclipse at KartikandSolar eclipse at Jyesth. (these are from Udyoga and Bhisma Parvan).(1)Amavasya occurs in Jyestha in 19 years(2) (1) PLUS Solar Eclipse in Jyesth occurs in 340 years.(3) (2) PLUS Saturn at Rohini occurs ONCE in 7000 years.So, that constellation in astronomy has NOT occured since Mahabharat. The date - exact one - when that would have happened is Nov 22, 3067 BC. Update: I found an article which is very well written, which I am afraid may go away from that site. I have reproduced it at the bottom.Not only that, but the latter events like destructiion of Dwarka (based on the astronomical events mentioned around that) occur at EXACTLY as the text says - 36 years later. Pandit has based his research on work of Dr Narhari Achar (a professor of physics at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, in the US). According toAchar, Krishna was born in3112 BC. However, another person has used dates and astronomical events to zero in on the dates of that time, Arun K Bansal. According to him,Krishna was born on July 21, 3228 BC anddied at 2 pm on February 18, 3102 BC. That is when Kali Yug is supposed to have started and Dwapar Yug came to an end.So, Bansal's dates are a few decades prior to Achar's dates.However, there are more people who side with Dr. Achar (refer to the article reproduced below).Here are a few dates that can be identified with respect to the dates by Dr.Achar:Lord Krishna, on His final peace mission, set out for Hastinapur on 26th September, 3067 B.C. when the moon was at the asterism Revati.Lord Krishna arrived Hastinapur on 28th September, 3067 B.C., when the moonwas at the asterism Bharani.The full moon and lunar eclipse at Krittika occurred on 29th September, 3067 B.C.The solar eclipse at Jyestha occurred on 14th October, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama set out for pilgrimage on 1st November, 3067 B.C.The War began on 22nd November, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama concluded His pilgrimage on 12th December, 3067 B.C.The winter solstice occurred on 13th January, 3066 B.C.Bhishma died on 17th January, 3066 B.C.The comet Mahaghora appeared at the asterism Pushya in October, 3066 B.C.Mahabharat dates and Historical EventsInterestingly, the decades when Dwapar Yug is supposed to have ended and Kali Yug supposed to have started as per these dates.. were also the years of some MAJOR climatic shift on earth - due most probably to major shifts in Solar Activity! Some of the MAJOR things that happened:Sahara region changed from a habitable land to a barren desert!Glaciers Expanded covering plants.Atmospheric temperatures fell drastically.This was also the time, when Harrapan Civilization or Sindhu-SaraswatiCivilization is supposed to have began.Some people believe that Mahabharat was a Nuclear War. Why? Because of some explanations that defy contemporary knowledge of weapons that people of THAT time could conceivably have created. Weapons with such impact could not have been conjured up just out of nowhere.. REPEATEDLY.. in various parts of the text. See below for one such description of its effects. It is not surprising that even in the modern world, Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Scientist jumped up after seeing the Atomic blast and cited a similar versefrom Gita (part of Mahabharat).Now, if you see the extreme climactic changes - creation of desert out of habitable land in Sahara and drastic fall in atmospheric temperature as if Solar Activity had changed - it may not be entirely unlikely, that thoseclimatic shifts may have mimicked a Nuclear Winter.Mahabharat is a fantastic epic and one which would have required MORE than just imagination to write. No writer has ever written something so completely OUT of whack with his times, mores and thinking... as aMahabharat within the context of History as taught in our school texts suggests. It seems so fantastic that even the idea seems absurd! That alone - the imagination of a writer 5000 years ago to write somethingthat (if linera historical progress is taken to be true) ONLY people of today could have seen/heard/experienced/imagined! Its not just wishful imagination - as parting of seas et al - but very exact descriptions of things that happen today and could happen tomorrow. The philosophy of Gita is hitherto unparalleled in the spiritual realm. NoSaint, prophet, Master, or mystic has covered so many topologies - Knowledge, Devotion, Action, - with so much mastery.What I am trying to say is that you cannot get something out of nowhere. You can only conjure up stuff that is there in your immediate consciousness. Fantasies and miracles in knowledge dont make sense to me!An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with all its splendour.It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashesthe entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable.Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hoursall foodstuffs were infected to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.Reference Links:1.'Lord Krishna existed. School texts are wrong'2.Krishna (b. July 21, 3228 BC)3.33rd century BC4.Pre-historic Nuclear War and ancient Flying Aircraft uncoveredHistoricity of MahabharatIn January 2001, Indian History Congress was holding its Annual Conference at the Alipur Campus of the University of Calcutta and at the concluding session of the said Conference the Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Amartya Sen, while addressing the delegates, said that Ramayana and Mahabharata do not have any historical value. These two epics are simply mythology and nothing but poets fancy. He also said that neither Rama nor Krishna was a historical personality and both of them were simply mythical. Gandhiji wrote two commentaries on Shrimadbhagavadgita, Anasaktiyoga and Gitabodha, and in the introduction of the former work, he wrote, Generally Mahabharata is taken to be a historical work. But in my opinion, it is notso. I cannot say that Ramayana and Mahabharata are historical works. They are simply religious works. If you are still inclined to treat them as historical works, then I should say that they are nothing but the history ofthe Self (Atma). They do not contain what happened thousands of years ago. On the contrary, they are the reflections of what is happening today in every soul. About Lord Krishna, he wrote, Krishna of Gita is the embodiment of pure and divine knowledge, but without having any physical existence. By this the Avatar Krishna is not denied at all, but only it is said that He is mythical. It is not difficult to understand that all such utterances of Sen, Gandhi and many other like minded Indians derive inspiration from the Western interpretation of Indian history. Most of the Western scholars firmly believe that our ancestors grossly neglected writing history and what we claim to be our history is nothing but mythology. So M. Winternitz in his History of Indian Literature writes, History is one weak spot in Indian literature. It is, in fact, non-existent. The total lack of historical sense is so characteristic that the whole course of Sanskrit literature is darkened by the defect. The renowned German scholar Max Muller, in his History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, writes, No wonder that a nation like India cared so little for history. With regard to history, the Hindus have done really nothing but romances from which some truth may occasionally be extracted, says another Western scholar Major Wilford. These scholars refuse to accept Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas as historical works as there are no mention of year and dates of the events described therein. But people of this country firmly believe that Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas are their history and not simply epics or poets fancy. So Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, the director of the Chennai based Saraswati River ResearchCentre, says that the historicity of the events described in Ramayana and Mahabharata is validated by two evidences: one is based on tradition and the other is based on jyotisha, or planetary configurations and other celestial events narrated along with mundane events described in those epics, which may be called sky epigraphs.So far tradition is concerned, people of this nation believe that Lord Rama was born on the day of Ramanavami and Lord Krishna was born on the day of Janmastami and so on. In fact, there is a long list of such traditional beliefs such as: Bhishma died on the Bhishmastami day, on the day of Vijaya Dashami, Lord Rama celebrated the day, with His army, as the day of victory after killing Ravana and defeating his army just on the previous day, on the day of Deepavali, Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile andthe people of Ayodhya celebrated the day and decorated their houses by lighting lamps and the tradition is still being continued; the War of Kurukshetra began on the day of Gita Jayanti and so on and so forth.It is really strange that the people of Western Garhwal, now in the state of Uttaranchal, observe every year the Duryodhana Festival. There also exists a temple dedicated to Duryodhana where people offer their puja and many believe that the city of Varanavat, where Duryodhana tried to burn the Pandavas alive, was situated in that locality. It is also really striking that people of this country offer water in memory of Bhishma during shraddha ceremony. The point to be highlighted here is that, had all these been poets fancy and mythical, the traditions could not have been continued for such a long time. The aspect of celestial epigraph, or planetary positions described in these epics, particularly in Mahabharata, undoubtedly shows that the said epics do mention the dates of events described therein, which the Western scholars failed miserably to understand. In Mahabharata alone there are 150 instances where worldly events are mentioned along with the planetary positions in the sky. And, in addition to that, other astronomical events such as occurrence of an eclipse, or appearance of a comet, or rare events like shower of meteorites have been mentioned. A few of such examples may be mentioned belowThe Udyoga Parva of Mahabharata narrates that, just before the War, Lord Krishna, in His final peace mission, went to Hastinapur in the month of Kartika. He set out on the day when moon was at the asterism Revati. On His way to Hastinapur, Krishna took rest for a day at a place called Brikasthala, and on that day the moon was at the asterism Bharani. The day on which Duryodhana turned down each and every effort of Lord Krishna to make peace and made the war inevitable, the moon was resting at the asterism Pushya. And the Lord left Hastinapura with Karna, on the day when the moon was yet to reach the asterism Uttara Phalguni. As mentioned above, Karna accompanied Him to some distance to see Him off and he then described to the Lord the positions of planets in the sky and expressed his apprehension that such a planetary configuration stood for very bad omen: such as large scale loss of life and drenching of blood. Vyasadeva narrated all these planetary positions in as many as sixteen verses as if someone was describing it after visualizing them in the sky. It is also well known that during the War, Lord Balarama went on a pilgrimage to holy places along the banks of the River Saraswati and Mahabharata describes the position of the moon during the entire course of pilgrimage. For example, He set out on the day when the moon was at the asterism Pushya and returned on the day when the moon was at the asterism Shravana.The Mahabharata also mentions the occurrence of a solar eclipse at the asterism Jyestha and a lunar eclipse at the asterism Krittika, just before the beginning of the War. It also mentions the appearance of a comet at the asterism Pushya, on the 8th day of the bright half of the month of Magha, when Bhishma died. On that day the moon was at the asterism Rohini and it was the day of Winter Solstice. The day on which Ghatotkacha, son of Bhima, died, the moon appeared at the horizon at 2.00 a.m. The epic also mentionsthe occurrence of a very rare astronomical event that took place prior to the War: three eclipses, two lunar and a solar, within a lunar month of 27 days There is also another continuing tradition in this country that says that the beginning of the present Kali Yuga, Kurukshetra War, death of Lord Krishna and coronation of Emperor Yudhishthira were contemporary events.Famous astronomer Aryabhatta in his celebrated work Aryabhatiyam had accepted the said tradition and used the word Bharatapurvam in the said work very often and scholars agree that he used the word to refer to such events that occurred before the Mahabharata War. In 1991, Dr. D. Abhayankar and Dr. Ballabh of the Osmania University calculated that the present Kali Yuga began on 7th February, 3104 B.C. But it is now well accepted by the both Eastern and the Western scholars that the present Kali Yuga began on the midnight of 17th and 18th February, 3102 B.C. And hence it can roughly be said that the Mahabharata War took place nearly 5000 years ago from now.Today, man has created a machine called computer which, though most idiotic, can do mathematical calculations at an incredible speed. According to a popular ad of a computer company, the calculations which Johannes Kepler took ten years to complete, can be done today within minutes, using a computer. It has therefore been possible for the scientists, with the help of this fantastic machine, to determine the dates of ancient events with unthinkable accuracy, using the planetary configurations given in the Mahabharata , as inputs. They have developed so many software for this purpose and to name a few are: (1) Planetarium, (2) Ecliptic, (3) Lode star and the(4) Panchang Software. In 2003, a two day seminar was held on 5th and 6th January, in Bangalore, on The Date of Mahabharata War: Based on Astronomical Data Using Planetarium Software, and a few of the eminent researchers who submitted papers were (1) Dr. S. Balakrishna of NASA, USA; (2) Dr. B. N. Narahari Achar, Department of Physics, Memphis University, USA; (3) Dr. R. N. Iyengar, Department of Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore; (4) Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, Saraswati River Research Centre, Chennai and so on. These scientists agree that there does not exist any contradiction between any two descriptions of planetary configurations given in the Mahabharata.Dr. S. Balakrishna has studied the eclipses, both solar and lunar, described in the Mahabharata and tried to find out the dates of those eclipses using the Lode Star Software. Generally 240 solar and 150 lunar eclipses occur in a century and during the period from 3300 B.C. to 700 B.C. nearly 6000 solar and 4000 lunar eclipses took place, though not all of them were visible from India, or to be more precise, fromKurukshetra. Out of them, 672 were eclipse pairs, or both solar and lunar eclipses within a lunar month. Dr.Balakrishna studied the eclipses those have been mentioned in the text of Mahabharata. In fact, there are mentions of solar eclipses at 8 places in Mahabharata, out of which three of them are very important. Firstly, the solar eclipse that is mentioned in the Sabha Parva. The second solar eclipse which is mentioned in the Udyoga Parva to which Karna tried to draw the attention of Lord Krishna when He was returning from Hastinapur. The third important solar eclipse has been mentioned in the Shalya Parva, that occurred along with two lunar eclipses within a month. Many believe that there was a total solar eclipse occurred on the 13th day of the War, which has been allegorically mentioned as covering the sun by Lord Krishna with is His Sudarshan Chakra.The epic Mahabharata has so many other aspects which common people do not know. Firstly, the epic as we see it today containing 100,000 verses was not the creation of Vedavyasa. He composed what was then known as the Jai, containing only 8,800 verses. Later on Rishi Vaishampayana enlarged it to contain 24,000 verses which was then known as the Bharata. Finally Sauti, the son of the suta (the chariot driver) Lomaharshana, gave it present form as we see now, containing 100,000 verses. It has been mentioned earlier that just prior to the Mahabharata War, a very rare event of three eclipses occurring within a lunar month took place: a lunar eclipse followed by a solar one and then another lunar eclipse. According to the text of Mahabharata, the solar eclipse occurred just 13 days after the first lunar eclipse. Dr. S. Balakrishna of NASA, USA, has searched all eclipse pairs, a lunar eclipse followed by a solar eclipse after 13 days, that took place from 3300 B.C. to 700 B.C., using the Lodestar pro-software. He found that nearly 672 eclipse pairs have occurred within the said period, out of which 27 pairs have been found to have less than 14 days time gap. And according to Dr. Balakrishna, the eclipse pair of 2559 is the best match with the description given in the text of Mahabharata. But according to Dr. Kalyanaraman, the eclipses occurred in 3067 B.C.- the lunar eclipse on 29th September at the asterism Krittika and the solar eclipse on 14th October at the asterism Jyestha. Researcher Dr. P. V. Holay examined 6 planetary configurations given in the Mahabharata and concluded that the War began on 13th November, 3143 B.C. But Dr. K. S. Raghavan and his coworker Dr. G. S. Sampath Iyengar, using the Planetarium software came to the conclusion that the Kurukshetra War began on 22nd day of November, 3067 B.C. (according to the present Gregorian calendar). Professor Dr. Narahari Achar of the University of Memphis, USA,also arrived at the same conclusion using the said Planetarium software. Dr.S. Kalyanaraman of the Saraswati River Research Centre, Chennai, found the estimates of Dr. K. S. Raghavan and Dr. Narahari Achar correct and, on that basis, calculated the dates of some other important events of Mahabharata.For example: Lord Krishna, on His final peace mission, set out for Hastinapur on 26th September, 3067 B.C. when the moon was at the asterism Revati. Lord Krishna arrived Hastinapur on 28th September, 3067 B.C., when the moon was at the asterism Bharani. The full moon and lunar eclipse at Krittika occurred on 29th September, 3067 B.C.The solar eclipse at Jyestha occurred on 14th October, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama set out for pilgrimage on 1st November, 3067 B.C.The War began on 22nd November, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama concluded His pilgrimage on 12th December, 3067 B.C.The winter solstice occurred on 13th January, 3066 B.C.Bhishma died on 17th January, 3066 B.C.The comet Mahaghora appeared at the asterism Pushya in October, 3066 B.C.Finally, it should be mentioned that the said seminar officially accepted that the Mahabharata War began, as mentioned above, on 22nd November, 3067 B.C. So it appears that the Mahabharata War took place, not in Dwapara Yuga but, in the 35th year of the present Kali Yuga. It is not unlikely because according to the text of Mahabharata, the War took place at the juncture of Dwapara and Kali Yuga.Last year, (2005 A.D.), astrologer Arun Kumar Bansal, using computer software, calculated date of birth of Lord Krishna and it was 21st July,3228 B.C. So it appears that during the Mahabharata War, age of Lord Krishna was 161 years. At the first sight, it may appear to be absurd. But it should be mentioned here that, according to Hindu scriptures, the normal life span of human beings is 400 years in Krita (or Satya), 300 years in Treta, 200 years in Dwapara and 100 years in Kali Yuga. In fact, during the Kurukshetra War, most of the military top brass of both Kauravas and Pandavas were more than 100 years old. To conclude, it should be mentioned here that the discovery of the ruins of the city of Dwaraka by the renowned archaeologist Dr. S. R. Rao, under the Arabian Sea, provides another strong evidence that Lord Krishna and the story of Mahabharata were a reality and not simply poets fancy.http://drishtikone.com/?q=blog/krishna-and-mahabharat-historical-reality
Krishna and Mahabharata : Historical realityBy Desh (Aug. 31, 2009)Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician from UK is making a movie on Krishna as a historic figure. Pandit has based his movie on dates and timelines coming out of scientific based research by credible evidence based on Archeology, Astronomy and Linguistics, apart from Oral evidence from Indian tradition.Mahabharat War started onNovember 22, 3067 BC. This comes out of astronomical evidence. And the astronomical juxtapositions are not arbitrary or those that could happen in any decade or such... but some of them have not happened since. They are THAT rare a phenomenon. Saturn at RohiniandMars at Jyesthawith two eclipses -a Lunar eclipse at KartikandSolar eclipse at Jyesth. (these are from Udyoga and Bhisma Parvan).(1)Amavasya occurs in Jyestha in 19 years(2) (1) PLUS Solar Eclipse in Jyesth occurs in 340 years.(3) (2) PLUS Saturn at Rohini occurs ONCE in 7000 years.So, that constellation in astronomy has NOT occured since Mahabharat. The date - exact one - when that would have happened is Nov 22, 3067 BC. Update: I found an article which is very well written, which I am afraid may go away from that site. I have reproduced it at the bottom.Not only that, but the latter events like destructiion of Dwarka (based on the astronomical events mentioned around that) occur at EXACTLY as the text says - 36 years later. Pandit has based his research on work of Dr Narhari Achar (a professor of physics at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, in the US). According toAchar, Krishna was born in3112 BC. However, another person has used dates and astronomical events to zero in on the dates of that time, Arun K Bansal. According to him,Krishna was born on July 21, 3228 BC anddied at 2 pm on February 18, 3102 BC. That is when Kali Yug is supposed to have started and Dwapar Yug came to an end.So, Bansal's dates are a few decades prior to Achar's dates.However, there are more people who side with Dr. Achar (refer to the article reproduced below).Here are a few dates that can be identified with respect to the dates by Dr.Achar:Lord Krishna, on His final peace mission, set out for Hastinapur on 26th September, 3067 B.C. when the moon was at the asterism Revati.Lord Krishna arrived Hastinapur on 28th September, 3067 B.C., when the moonwas at the asterism Bharani.The full moon and lunar eclipse at Krittika occurred on 29th September, 3067 B.C.The solar eclipse at Jyestha occurred on 14th October, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama set out for pilgrimage on 1st November, 3067 B.C.The War began on 22nd November, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama concluded His pilgrimage on 12th December, 3067 B.C.The winter solstice occurred on 13th January, 3066 B.C.Bhishma died on 17th January, 3066 B.C.The comet Mahaghora appeared at the asterism Pushya in October, 3066 B.C.Mahabharat dates and Historical EventsInterestingly, the decades when Dwapar Yug is supposed to have ended and Kali Yug supposed to have started as per these dates.. were also the years of some MAJOR climatic shift on earth - due most probably to major shifts in Solar Activity! Some of the MAJOR things that happened:Sahara region changed from a habitable land to a barren desert!Glaciers Expanded covering plants.Atmospheric temperatures fell drastically.This was also the time, when Harrapan Civilization or Sindhu-SaraswatiCivilization is supposed to have began.Some people believe that Mahabharat was a Nuclear War. Why? Because of some explanations that defy contemporary knowledge of weapons that people of THAT time could conceivably have created. Weapons with such impact could not have been conjured up just out of nowhere.. REPEATEDLY.. in various parts of the text. See below for one such description of its effects. It is not surprising that even in the modern world, Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Scientist jumped up after seeing the Atomic blast and cited a similar versefrom Gita (part of Mahabharat).Now, if you see the extreme climactic changes - creation of desert out of habitable land in Sahara and drastic fall in atmospheric temperature as if Solar Activity had changed - it may not be entirely unlikely, that thoseclimatic shifts may have mimicked a Nuclear Winter.Mahabharat is a fantastic epic and one which would have required MORE than just imagination to write. No writer has ever written something so completely OUT of whack with his times, mores and thinking... as aMahabharat within the context of History as taught in our school texts suggests. It seems so fantastic that even the idea seems absurd! That alone - the imagination of a writer 5000 years ago to write somethingthat (if linera historical progress is taken to be true) ONLY people of today could have seen/heard/experienced/imagined! Its not just wishful imagination - as parting of seas et al - but very exact descriptions of things that happen today and could happen tomorrow. The philosophy of Gita is hitherto unparalleled in the spiritual realm. NoSaint, prophet, Master, or mystic has covered so many topologies - Knowledge, Devotion, Action, - with so much mastery.What I am trying to say is that you cannot get something out of nowhere. You can only conjure up stuff that is there in your immediate consciousness. Fantasies and miracles in knowledge dont make sense to me!An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with all its splendour.It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashesthe entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable.Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hoursall foodstuffs were infected to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.Reference Links:1.'Lord Krishna existed. School texts are wrong'2.Krishna (b. July 21, 3228 BC)3.33rd century BC4.Pre-historic Nuclear War and ancient Flying Aircraft uncoveredHistoricity of MahabharatIn January 2001, Indian History Congress was holding its Annual Conference at the Alipur Campus of the University of Calcutta and at the concluding session of the said Conference the Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Amartya Sen, while addressing the delegates, said that Ramayana and Mahabharata do not have any historical value. These two epics are simply mythology and nothing but poets fancy. He also said that neither Rama nor Krishna was a historical personality and both of them were simply mythical. Gandhiji wrote two commentaries on Shrimadbhagavadgita, Anasaktiyoga and Gitabodha, and in the introduction of the former work, he wrote, Generally Mahabharata is taken to be a historical work. But in my opinion, it is notso. I cannot say that Ramayana and Mahabharata are historical works. They are simply religious works. If you are still inclined to treat them as historical works, then I should say that they are nothing but the history ofthe Self (Atma). They do not contain what happened thousands of years ago. On the contrary, they are the reflections of what is happening today in every soul. About Lord Krishna, he wrote, Krishna of Gita is the embodiment of pure and divine knowledge, but without having any physical existence. By this the Avatar Krishna is not denied at all, but only it is said that He is mythical. It is not difficult to understand that all such utterances of Sen, Gandhi and many other like minded Indians derive inspiration from the Western interpretation of Indian history. Most of the Western scholars firmly believe that our ancestors grossly neglected writing history and what we claim to be our history is nothing but mythology. So M. Winternitz in his History of Indian Literature writes, History is one weak spot in Indian literature. It is, in fact, non-existent. The total lack of historical sense is so characteristic that the whole course of Sanskrit literature is darkened by the defect. The renowned German scholar Max Muller, in his History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, writes, No wonder that a nation like India cared so little for history. With regard to history, the Hindus have done really nothing but romances from which some truth may occasionally be extracted, says another Western scholar Major Wilford. These scholars refuse to accept Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas as historical works as there are no mention of year and dates of the events described therein. But people of this country firmly believe that Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas are their history and not simply epics or poets fancy. So Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, the director of the Chennai based Saraswati River ResearchCentre, says that the historicity of the events described in Ramayana and Mahabharata is validated by two evidences: one is based on tradition and the other is based on jyotisha, or planetary configurations and other celestial events narrated along with mundane events described in those epics, which may be called sky epigraphs.So far tradition is concerned, people of this nation believe that Lord Rama was born on the day of Ramanavami and Lord Krishna was born on the day of Janmastami and so on. In fact, there is a long list of such traditional beliefs such as: Bhishma died on the Bhishmastami day, on the day of Vijaya Dashami, Lord Rama celebrated the day, with His army, as the day of victory after killing Ravana and defeating his army just on the previous day, on the day of Deepavali, Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile andthe people of Ayodhya celebrated the day and decorated their houses by lighting lamps and the tradition is still being continued; the War of Kurukshetra began on the day of Gita Jayanti and so on and so forth.It is really strange that the people of Western Garhwal, now in the state of Uttaranchal, observe every year the Duryodhana Festival. There also exists a temple dedicated to Duryodhana where people offer their puja and many believe that the city of Varanavat, where Duryodhana tried to burn the Pandavas alive, was situated in that locality. It is also really striking that people of this country offer water in memory of Bhishma during shraddha ceremony. The point to be highlighted here is that, had all these been poets fancy and mythical, the traditions could not have been continued for such a long time. The aspect of celestial epigraph, or planetary positions described in these epics, particularly in Mahabharata, undoubtedly shows that the said epics do mention the dates of events described therein, which the Western scholars failed miserably to understand. In Mahabharata alone there are 150 instances where worldly events are mentioned along with the planetary positions in the sky. And, in addition to that, other astronomical events such as occurrence of an eclipse, or appearance of a comet, or rare events like shower of meteorites have been mentioned. A few of such examples may be mentioned belowThe Udyoga Parva of Mahabharata narrates that, just before the War, Lord Krishna, in His final peace mission, went to Hastinapur in the month of Kartika. He set out on the day when moon was at the asterism Revati. On His way to Hastinapur, Krishna took rest for a day at a place called Brikasthala, and on that day the moon was at the asterism Bharani. The day on which Duryodhana turned down each and every effort of Lord Krishna to make peace and made the war inevitable, the moon was resting at the asterism Pushya. And the Lord left Hastinapura with Karna, on the day when the moon was yet to reach the asterism Uttara Phalguni. As mentioned above, Karna accompanied Him to some distance to see Him off and he then described to the Lord the positions of planets in the sky and expressed his apprehension that such a planetary configuration stood for very bad omen: such as large scale loss of life and drenching of blood. Vyasadeva narrated all these planetary positions in as many as sixteen verses as if someone was describing it after visualizing them in the sky. It is also well known that during the War, Lord Balarama went on a pilgrimage to holy places along the banks of the River Saraswati and Mahabharata describes the position of the moon during the entire course of pilgrimage. For example, He set out on the day when the moon was at the asterism Pushya and returned on the day when the moon was at the asterism Shravana.The Mahabharata also mentions the occurrence of a solar eclipse at the asterism Jyestha and a lunar eclipse at the asterism Krittika, just before the beginning of the War. It also mentions the appearance of a comet at the asterism Pushya, on the 8th day of the bright half of the month of Magha, when Bhishma died. On that day the moon was at the asterism Rohini and it was the day of Winter Solstice. The day on which Ghatotkacha, son of Bhima, died, the moon appeared at the horizon at 2.00 a.m. The epic also mentionsthe occurrence of a very rare astronomical event that took place prior to the War: three eclipses, two lunar and a solar, within a lunar month of 27 days There is also another continuing tradition in this country that says that the beginning of the present Kali Yuga, Kurukshetra War, death of Lord Krishna and coronation of Emperor Yudhishthira were contemporary events.Famous astronomer Aryabhatta in his celebrated work Aryabhatiyam had accepted the said tradition and used the word Bharatapurvam in the said work very often and scholars agree that he used the word to refer to such events that occurred before the Mahabharata War. In 1991, Dr. D. Abhayankar and Dr. Ballabh of the Osmania University calculated that the present Kali Yuga began on 7th February, 3104 B.C. But it is now well accepted by the both Eastern and the Western scholars that the present Kali Yuga began on the midnight of 17th and 18th February, 3102 B.C. And hence it can roughly be said that the Mahabharata War took place nearly 5000 years ago from now.Today, man has created a machine called computer which, though most idiotic, can do mathematical calculations at an incredible speed. According to a popular ad of a computer company, the calculations which Johannes Kepler took ten years to complete, can be done today within minutes, using a computer. It has therefore been possible for the scientists, with the help of this fantastic machine, to determine the dates of ancient events with unthinkable accuracy, using the planetary configurations given in the Mahabharata , as inputs. They have developed so many software for this purpose and to name a few are: (1) Planetarium, (2) Ecliptic, (3) Lode star and the(4) Panchang Software. In 2003, a two day seminar was held on 5th and 6th January, in Bangalore, on The Date of Mahabharata War: Based on Astronomical Data Using Planetarium Software, and a few of the eminent researchers who submitted papers were (1) Dr. S. Balakrishna of NASA, USA; (2) Dr. B. N. Narahari Achar, Department of Physics, Memphis University, USA; (3) Dr. R. N. Iyengar, Department of Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore; (4) Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, Saraswati River Research Centre, Chennai and so on. These scientists agree that there does not exist any contradiction between any two descriptions of planetary configurations given in the Mahabharata.Dr. S. Balakrishna has studied the eclipses, both solar and lunar, described in the Mahabharata and tried to find out the dates of those eclipses using the Lode Star Software. Generally 240 solar and 150 lunar eclipses occur in a century and during the period from 3300 B.C. to 700 B.C. nearly 6000 solar and 4000 lunar eclipses took place, though not all of them were visible from India, or to be more precise, fromKurukshetra. Out of them, 672 were eclipse pairs, or both solar and lunar eclipses within a lunar month. Dr.Balakrishna studied the eclipses those have been mentioned in the text of Mahabharata. In fact, there are mentions of solar eclipses at 8 places in Mahabharata, out of which three of them are very important. Firstly, the solar eclipse that is mentioned in the Sabha Parva. The second solar eclipse which is mentioned in the Udyoga Parva to which Karna tried to draw the attention of Lord Krishna when He was returning from Hastinapur. The third important solar eclipse has been mentioned in the Shalya Parva, that occurred along with two lunar eclipses within a month. Many believe that there was a total solar eclipse occurred on the 13th day of the War, which has been allegorically mentioned as covering the sun by Lord Krishna with is His Sudarshan Chakra.The epic Mahabharata has so many other aspects which common people do not know. Firstly, the epic as we see it today containing 100,000 verses was not the creation of Vedavyasa. He composed what was then known as the Jai, containing only 8,800 verses. Later on Rishi Vaishampayana enlarged it to contain 24,000 verses which was then known as the Bharata. Finally Sauti, the son of the suta (the chariot driver) Lomaharshana, gave it present form as we see now, containing 100,000 verses. It has been mentioned earlier that just prior to the Mahabharata War, a very rare event of three eclipses occurring within a lunar month took place: a lunar eclipse followed by a solar one and then another lunar eclipse. According to the text of Mahabharata, the solar eclipse occurred just 13 days after the first lunar eclipse. Dr. S. Balakrishna of NASA, USA, has searched all eclipse pairs, a lunar eclipse followed by a solar eclipse after 13 days, that took place from 3300 B.C. to 700 B.C., using the Lodestar pro-software. He found that nearly 672 eclipse pairs have occurred within the said period, out of which 27 pairs have been found to have less than 14 days time gap. And according to Dr. Balakrishna, the eclipse pair of 2559 is the best match with the description given in the text of Mahabharata. But according to Dr. Kalyanaraman, the eclipses occurred in 3067 B.C.- the lunar eclipse on 29th September at the asterism Krittika and the solar eclipse on 14th October at the asterism Jyestha. Researcher Dr. P. V. Holay examined 6 planetary configurations given in the Mahabharata and concluded that the War began on 13th November, 3143 B.C. But Dr. K. S. Raghavan and his coworker Dr. G. S. Sampath Iyengar, using the Planetarium software came to the conclusion that the Kurukshetra War began on 22nd day of November, 3067 B.C. (according to the present Gregorian calendar). Professor Dr. Narahari Achar of the University of Memphis, USA,also arrived at the same conclusion using the said Planetarium software. Dr.S. Kalyanaraman of the Saraswati River Research Centre, Chennai, found the estimates of Dr. K. S. Raghavan and Dr. Narahari Achar correct and, on that basis, calculated the dates of some other important events of Mahabharata.For example: Lord Krishna, on His final peace mission, set out for Hastinapur on 26th September, 3067 B.C. when the moon was at the asterism Revati. Lord Krishna arrived Hastinapur on 28th September, 3067 B.C., when the moon was at the asterism Bharani. The full moon and lunar eclipse at Krittika occurred on 29th September, 3067 B.C.The solar eclipse at Jyestha occurred on 14th October, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama set out for pilgrimage on 1st November, 3067 B.C.The War began on 22nd November, 3067 B.C.Lord Balarama concluded His pilgrimage on 12th December, 3067 B.C.The winter solstice occurred on 13th January, 3066 B.C.Bhishma died on 17th January, 3066 B.C.The comet Mahaghora appeared at the asterism Pushya in October, 3066 B.C.Finally, it should be mentioned that the said seminar officially accepted that the Mahabharata War began, as mentioned above, on 22nd November, 3067 B.C. So it appears that the Mahabharata War took place, not in Dwapara Yuga but, in the 35th year of the present Kali Yuga. It is not unlikely because according to the text of Mahabharata, the War took place at the juncture of Dwapara and Kali Yuga.Last year, (2005 A.D.), astrologer Arun Kumar Bansal, using computer software, calculated date of birth of Lord Krishna and it was 21st July,3228 B.C. So it appears that during the Mahabharata War, age of Lord Krishna was 161 years. At the first sight, it may appear to be absurd. But it should be mentioned here that, according to Hindu scriptures, the normal life span of human beings is 400 years in Krita (or Satya), 300 years in Treta, 200 years in Dwapara and 100 years in Kali Yuga. In fact, during the Kurukshetra War, most of the military top brass of both Kauravas and Pandavas were more than 100 years old. To conclude, it should be mentioned here that the discovery of the ruins of the city of Dwaraka by the renowned archaeologist Dr. S. R. Rao, under the Arabian Sea, provides another strong evidence that Lord Krishna and the story of Mahabharata were a reality and not simply poets fancy.http://drishtikone.com/?q=blog/krishna-and-mahabharat-historical-reality
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Captain as software engineer
Just received this from one of mmy colleagues and couldnt resist posting this as this is about india's greatest superstar , captain vijaykanth . Just read on and the english caption given makes it all the more funny and enjoyable..
Side effects of Chennai English
You listen to Chennai-waasis (especially the youth of Chennai) speak English and you will invariably find at least one of the following three, if not all, in what is spoken:
Sentence starts with the word “Man”
Sentence ends with the word “no” or “right” (In fact “right” is common to people from other parts of the country too)
Use of “I can’t able to”
Now that I am a Chennai-waasi myself, the words “Man” and “no” have started finding their place regularly in what I speak.
Here is what happened yesterday in the coffee shop at my office. One of my colleagues went and gave the following order: “1 Tea. No sugar. 1 Coffee”. Here is what the guy at the counter understood: “1 Tea No . Sugar. 1 Coffee”. It wouldn’t be a surprise to know that my colleague got tea with sugar in it while what he wanted was tea without sugar. The word “no” was just redundant.
Lesson learnt: If one wants to use the word “no”, he/she must treat it like an “escape character”. An ideal way to place the order would probably have been the following: “Man. 1 Tea no. No Sugar no. 1 Coffee no. You got it right no“.
courtesy : one of the numerous forwards from my friends..
Sentence starts with the word “Man”
Sentence ends with the word “no” or “right” (In fact “right” is common to people from other parts of the country too)
Use of “I can’t able to”
Now that I am a Chennai-waasi myself, the words “Man” and “no” have started finding their place regularly in what I speak.
Here is what happened yesterday in the coffee shop at my office. One of my colleagues went and gave the following order: “1 Tea. No sugar. 1 Coffee”. Here is what the guy at the counter understood: “1 Tea No . Sugar. 1 Coffee”. It wouldn’t be a surprise to know that my colleague got tea with sugar in it while what he wanted was tea without sugar. The word “no” was just redundant.
Lesson learnt: If one wants to use the word “no”, he/she must treat it like an “escape character”. An ideal way to place the order would probably have been the following: “Man. 1 Tea no. No Sugar no. 1 Coffee no. You got it right no“.
courtesy : one of the numerous forwards from my friends..
Hindi cricket commentary - unbeatable
If you ever feel depressed in life and think life could not have been worser, just hear Hindi cricket commentary (even if it is the highlights of an age old match telecast for the nth time on DD). You might end up laughing your heart out.
Take for instance a cricket match between Sri Lanka and Ireland. Ireland had appealed for a run out and third umpire was called into action. TV replays were showing M. Jayawardene cross over safely before the ball hit the wicket and the bails got dislodged. The Hindi commentator (a former Indian cricketer) tells something to this effect as his conclusion from the action replay: “aisa lag raha hai ki gend lagne ke bahut der baad bails aaraam se gir rahe hain (it appears as though the bails are getting dislodged slowly, a long time after the ball hit the wickets)”
Take for instance a cricket match between Sri Lanka and Ireland. Ireland had appealed for a run out and third umpire was called into action. TV replays were showing M. Jayawardene cross over safely before the ball hit the wicket and the bails got dislodged. The Hindi commentator (a former Indian cricketer) tells something to this effect as his conclusion from the action replay: “aisa lag raha hai ki gend lagne ke bahut der baad bails aaraam se gir rahe hain (it appears as though the bails are getting dislodged slowly, a long time after the ball hit the wickets)”
Bridge of contention
Here is a humorous forward whichh i received today..
Lord Ram surveyed the Ram Setu and said “Hanuman, how diligently and strenuously you and your vanar sena had built this bridge several centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of the climatic and geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed an amazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even before they could stick the posters on its pillars.”
Hanuman with all humility spoke “Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of your grace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was ever used. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now.”
Ram spoke “Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot of money will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more money on construction.”
Hanuman humbly bowed down and said, “Why not we go down and present our case”
Ram said, “Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask us to submit age proof and we don’t have either a birth certificate or school-leaving certificate. I studied in a gurukulam and did not bother for certificates, my apprenticeship under the great sages was nice but they didnt give me any experiance certificates either. Even my archery skills did not get me any medals but only a wife. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in bullock carts and so we don’t have a driving license either. As far as the address proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself under litigation for over half a century, if I go in a traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize me, and the cops make get me in an encounter or put me behind bars under some anti terrorism act, maybe Arjun Singh may take me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer a seat at IIT under the reserved category. Also, a God cannot walk in dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make even the devotees suspicious. So it is dilemma so to say.”
“I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge.”
“My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce the layout plan, the project details, including financial outlay and how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is accepted without documentary evidence in India. You and vibishana are two of the eight immortals in this world, how can you prove you are still alive. You may cough but unless a doctor certifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present himself personally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that complicated.”
“Lord, I can’t understand these historians. Over the years you have given darshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and still they disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The only option, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government records straight once for all.”
Lord smiled “It isn’t that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he may look like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mama Mareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was in the forest and he said that he won’t take a chance of stepping on earth as long as Salman Khan is around.”
Lord Ram surveyed the Ram Setu and said “Hanuman, how diligently and strenuously you and your vanar sena had built this bridge several centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of the climatic and geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed an amazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even before they could stick the posters on its pillars.”
Hanuman with all humility spoke “Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of your grace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was ever used. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now.”
Ram spoke “Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot of money will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more money on construction.”
Hanuman humbly bowed down and said, “Why not we go down and present our case”
Ram said, “Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask us to submit age proof and we don’t have either a birth certificate or school-leaving certificate. I studied in a gurukulam and did not bother for certificates, my apprenticeship under the great sages was nice but they didnt give me any experiance certificates either. Even my archery skills did not get me any medals but only a wife. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in bullock carts and so we don’t have a driving license either. As far as the address proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself under litigation for over half a century, if I go in a traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize me, and the cops make get me in an encounter or put me behind bars under some anti terrorism act, maybe Arjun Singh may take me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer a seat at IIT under the reserved category. Also, a God cannot walk in dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make even the devotees suspicious. So it is dilemma so to say.”
“I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge.”
“My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce the layout plan, the project details, including financial outlay and how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is accepted without documentary evidence in India. You and vibishana are two of the eight immortals in this world, how can you prove you are still alive. You may cough but unless a doctor certifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present himself personally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that complicated.”
“Lord, I can’t understand these historians. Over the years you have given darshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and still they disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The only option, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government records straight once for all.”
Lord smiled “It isn’t that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he may look like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mama Mareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was in the forest and he said that he won’t take a chance of stepping on earth as long as Salman Khan is around.”
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
THE MOST PRECIOUS PAIR OF HANDS PERHAPS ??
What can one say when fingers produce such divine music ?? Here are some true vintage photos of lalgudi sir with some great musicians..
With K.V.Narayanaswamy and palani subramania pillai at taj mahal...
With semmangudi srinivasa iyer and trichy sankaran
With the world famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
With K.V.Narayanaswamy and palani subramania pillai at taj mahal...
With semmangudi srinivasa iyer and trichy sankaran
With the world famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Last week when I met him , he was impatient "Why do you keep referring to my accompanying.Have you not heard my Solos?", he demanded.I had replied" Yes , but that is like a master chef cooking in his own kitchen.While accompanying , you are cooking in somebody else's kitchen.And that matters a lot to me "Then , I noticed that he had grown warm to my explanation :) We listened to a Doreswamy Iyengar- lalgudi duet together for half an hour.
Listen to some fabulous accompaniment .. Lalgudi accompanying nookala chinna satyanarayana in a concert..
Full concert , sometime later .
The master and his disciple
An absolutely outstanding thani avarthanam in misra jhampai thAlam featuring Palani subramania pillai and his illustrious disciple , a 13 or 14 year old boy called Trichy Sankaran . You just cannot help but get absolutely speechless and amazed by the virtuosity and the impeccable maturity of Sankaran sir at that age to understand what his teacher is playing and most importantly reproduce that effortlessly and at times even doing one step better.
The vocalist id viswAn Sri . S. Ramanthan..Enjoy , as the master and his student having a go at each other ..Just in case if you have trouble identifying who is playing , palani would be the one to start the exchanges in the thani , followed by sankaran.
http://rapidshare.com/files/115268847/Laya_vinyasam-Misra_Jampai.mp3
Arvind..
The vocalist id viswAn Sri . S. Ramanthan..Enjoy , as the master and his student having a go at each other ..Just in case if you have trouble identifying who is playing , palani would be the one to start the exchanges in the thani , followed by sankaran.
http://rapidshare.com/files/115268847/Laya_vinyasam-Misra_Jampai.mp3
Arvind..
Monday, May 25, 2009
My unforgettable years
This post is about the golden years in my life(1999 dec-2007 november) , my golden reminiscences of the period where carnatic music and mrudangam played a crucial role in shaping my life and how my guru "Sri.Umayalpuram.K. Sivaraman" sir(hence uks sir for simplicity) made an everlasting impression in my day to day activities ( not only
in art, but also in life). I can never forget the first concert of uks sir which i attended somewhere in 1996 in the famous "ayodhya mandapam" at west mambalam at chennai. He was playing for T.N.Krishnan's violin solo that day and though i was not very much intrested in carnatic music that time , i went to the concert as my mother dragged me from the playground to the concert. Though i was not very much amused by my mom's act , there was something in
that mrudangam of uks sir which spurred me to listen to more and more of him.
Egged on by this inner urge to learn the art form more seriously , i started practising daily and by GOD's grace after beginning to understand the finer nuances of the art , i started attending uks sir's concerts from 99 dec season till 2007 when i passed out of my engg and landed at philips for a job.Those 7 years i would never get
back as the time was limitless and i savoured each and every moment of it.Be it going around around with uks sir for concerts , his puns on and off the concert platform , his wittiness etc.. etc..During that period , studies became my extra-curricular activity..lol...such was the impact of uks sir , dat at one point of time i decided to give up my studies and take up mrudangam as a profession , till i heard the golden words from uks sir himself "
Music should never come at the cost of academics.." I realised this as these words came from a man who himself is
a law graduate...
Some of my most memorable moments with uks sir were when i had some wonderful oppurtunities to go around with him for his concerts around the city , especially during december season. Those wonderful old stories which he used to tell , the tinge of sarcasm about mischief makers in the music world , those wonderful incidents involving the yesteryear musicians to which he was a witness , are all wonderful wonderful moments unforgettable memories which will remain etched to my soul... One such incident went like this .. uks sir was scheduled to play for sri.M.Chandrasekhar's violin solo that day and the concert went on as scheduled..After a scintillating Thodi , uks sir suddenly held the mike in his hand and said " Ippdi polo va solo va sapadrele???" (chandrasekhar sir must have had a apolo without offering uks sir...")
Though this is just a beginning of many more posts to come in the next few days , i still have lots of things to share it with my beloved friends like my experiences during my arangetram , my favourite artistes , some unforgettable concerts which i have attended in chennai's glorius sabhas etc.. etc...keep coming back to this buddies , need your comments and support...
Arvind....
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