Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

  This song from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam won composor Ismail Darbar the Filmfare RD Burman award in 199. The film music also won the National award. This song penned by Mehboob Kotwal, and sung by KK (Krishnakumar Kunnath). Dominique Cerejo has also been credited for the song, but we don’t get to hear her at all!  On MTV Unplugged KK had shared that there had been some technical glitch when recording this song. Ismail Darbar told him to sleep in the studio itself with the promise to wake him when the technical issues were sorted. Sure enough he woke up KK at 4 in the morning and then the final recording was done! The composition is haunting. It starts classically in Double Bass and Cello (like Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam). It flows into dramatic crescendos only to be followed by eerie silences, as the melody twists and turns in every direction, further heightened by the soaring vocals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyot_r2iEZs The introduction – Bejaan dil ko बेजा...

First They Came - By Martin Niemöller Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Adolf Hitler's rise to power. But when, after he came to power, Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler.  In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II.  This short poem (or confession) written post war in 1946,  is about the cowardice of German intellectuals and certain clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself—following the Nazis ' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations...