Profound thoughts have crossed me at different times, because of different influences. It has been a while since I have found in myself the creative zest for the persistent ideation required for poetry, followed by a concerted effort to record the essential points of these ideas into verse. Part of the reason is that with [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Sublimations’
October 13, 2008
Fragments of a Bittersweet Past
Confessions, confessions. A train of thought just got opened up in my mind now because of this song, and I couldn’t refrain from writing about it. I remembered old, musty days that were locked up in the cupboard upstairs between my ears, which seemed to have popped out now, because I raked up the old [...]
October 9, 2008
Knowledge, Equanimity and Impermanence
When I consider why I used to be obsessed with trivia, I am stunned as to why I am no longer interested in them. Perhaps it is the nature of any evolving mental mechanism to eschew facts for hard evidence of something which is typical, which is patterned, which is sequential and predictable. With the [...]
August 20, 2008
Rediscovering Simhendramadhyamam
There has been no occasion when Simhendramadhyamam has not reminded me of my mother. The raga is altogether emotional, deep, grim and poignant and comes close to Sindhu Bhairavi in being effusive and mysterious, atmospheric. I am reminded, when I use so many adjectives for ragas, of a Frank Zappa quote, “Talking about music is [...]
August 19, 2008
The Fate of Journalism in India
I am back from a 2 week vacation in India. It was a very important and interesting vacation which I hope to introspect and write more about. One of the things I did but for traveling and reading was watching TV, which I hadn’t done in ages. And all I watched (for the most part) [...]
