Category Archives: Music

Dad completes 62 ; may the singing and travels continue.

Dad completes 62 today
Two years ago when I shared this with you, I had prayed for his good health and for his songs to continue. Life has been kind, the last couple of years have just zoomed past – lot’s of travel, fun and singing has kept us all engaged.
Please continue to send you… Read more »

Sixtieth for Dad!

Walking in home after school – and later, after work – I would often be greeted to a lovely voice, more often than not singing a Hindi film oldie… I would sometimes think of it as emanating from the radio, only to realize it was dad indulging in his favorite pass-time.
Dad sang at family… Read more »

Music of Silence

I haven’t really listened to too many of Osho’s talks but this one I connect with closely. It’s from the album Five Fingers. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do:
“You see my five fingers(pause)but somebody can see the five gaps between my fingers(long pause)but ordinarily you will not the gaps you will see… Read more »

Mark Knopfler is Screenplaying!

I discovered Screenplaying (Mark Knopfler) in 1996, via a music recommendation in India Today (?). I usually don’t buy music because a magazine asked me to do so, but something about that little review prompted me to go out and do so with this one. Screenplaying went on to become my all time favourite (Mark… Read more »

Anoushka Shankar!

Listening to Pt. Ravi Shankar play, as I work on my computer, I am reminded of a performance that I attented recently at Sirifort – Pt. Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka in concert.
I hadn’t heard Anoushka perform earlier and had so far written her off as a much hyped, pretty face, in news because… Read more »