Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

Pancham, Today is that day of the year when most of us stop for a while and close our eyes and remember you. Your contribution to music has been stupendous. People like us got introduced to Jazz after you effortlessly mixed it with Hindi film music. Jazz pieces get created at the spur of the moment. Just the way you did with your music. Start with a germ of an idea and nurture like a child it till it becomes something significant. The use of Sax, Bass guitar, Trumpet, Brass, Horns, Cymbals, Trombone and yet keeping the melody intact. Music mixing was something that you did so effortlessly. The way you used Rabindra Sangeet (Rangilo Rangilo) on flute as a start to Kuchh Na Kaho from 1942-A Love Story and then as the violins join in the melody suddenly we enter Waltz! Next we almost get a Jugalbandi of the Violins in the background with the vocals. The violins briefly go into symphony before returning back in to familiar Hindi film music area. It’s amazing! Such experi...

Today is 12th Jan 2014. I’m risking expressing a contra view as I see the all familiar signs of the AAP movement falling into the pitfalls of politics and losing its way.  Yesterday the electronic media was full of news concerning Arvind Kejriwal’s roof top speech to the people of Delhi. He was addressing the scores of people who came to meet him with their grievances. The country is engulfed in an AAP wave and the AAP leaders too seem to be relishing every moment. This is what scares me. Some years ago one VP Singh rode the wave on anti corruption plank and became the Prime Minister. He infact told in one of his sabha’s that he has in his pocket a paper containing the bank account number in which the Bofors bribes were deposited and which points to Rajiv Gandhi. And that it would take only 2 weeks to nail the guilty. He won the election and then let all of us down by not giving results in Bofors and imposing upon us the Mandal Commission recommendations. Till that time most of ...