Am back:):):)

I am back...well,well...I didnt disappear..actually was actively present in the Blogworld, but was doing more of reading,travelling,soul searching and THINKING. And did I mention the worldy routine of Office,projects and classes!!!
My each day is myriad world of thoughts..they are pieces of a Kaleidoscope..changing colours throughout the day...most of the times suprising myself even!
So always need to take a break in between to sort them out in different folders so that they do not mingle before I can put them in prints..
And the break of last two weeks I guess I have stacks of those folders now..
And for me it is a very right time now.To talk about my recent travelling,some new exciting movies and books I have come across,some new music I have been listening to..but ya music will have to wait,else now I'll be going on and on about the Thumris and ghazals I have been listening currently and I am too small a speck to talk about them..
Hmm...coming back to the Blogworld, I have been also reading about Twittering..It did impress me..but I feel I am more of the descriptive writing kinds,cant shorten my feelings and thoughts that much,so for now Blogging is a more inviting prospect.Want to experiment,exploit and exhaust myself more in this area..I have bigger goals but for now let me perfect myself in this first.
Had an exciting evening all by myself today..watched "Dirty Dancing" after ages..and just felt like was watching the movie for the first time and fell in love with it again..It always gives the same goosebumps each time you watch..and felt really sad for Patrick Swayze...God bless him and give him and his family the courage to face the difficult time and heal him fast!!!
Complimented the movie with a Ghirardelli dark chocolate & coke..I know..i know..lots of calories..but c'mon this week is "Pampering Myself"week..oh,didn't I explain what it is..ok.ok..I have been pampering myself doing stuff what I love to so that I can relax myself from the oh-so-grand-hectic-trip I had last week!!!
That means primarily(in the order)-
1)Watching movies
2)Listening my kinda music & some new genres of music(ones which I am not familiar to)
3)Reading,reading & lots of reading
4)Writing..for now its just the blog & diary
5)Sleeping
Coming back to my great evening,O then heard some great music too,downloaded some of my favourite songs to my Ipod,wished my parents on their 26th Anniversary(wish them all the love and joys of the life!!!)and writing now...phew!!! long list.....
Now I am sleepy..off to some new dreams...have to relax coz have some great stuff to write tomorrow...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:):):)

Pather Panchali - Song of the Road

I was in Class 8 when I had first read Bibhutibhushan Bandhopadhyay's "Song of the Road".A thick book! A translation! Back then I couldn't much read books in my Mother Tongue..But that translation was vivid enough to create the powerful images,powerful characters,the fraility of nineteenth-century poverty-stricken village in Bengal.One of the simplest and engaging story of all time.The pace,the characters,the narration so fluid..you are lost in the world of Durga & Apu.
I feel by the time a Bengali kid gains his senses,he knows of the two institutions- Rabindrabath Tagore & Satyajit Ray.We eat,drink,sleep,talk,argue their work.We are as passionate about them as we are of our Motherland.And with those gained senses the kid realises the masterwork "Pather Panchali".I remember my parents seeing it on the National Tv when I was a kid of 3-4 (i swear, i remember!!!) and the image that stayed with me was of the Sarbojaya's cottage in the storm and the rain dripping from the thatched roof...
And then till I watched it, I grew up on its stories,its achievements..how Ray made his first mark in the map of World Cinemas.I watched the movie first time in my Class X vaccations,and watched back to back the Trilogy- Apur sansar and Aparijito.
Though each one a class on its own,Pather Panchali is a magic.A story which though set in the rural Bengal had the power enough to touch chords with the audience worldwide. A movie made with enough struggles and financial crunches,its an image that any person who has seen it once can't forget.Like most of its audience,my favourite scene is the one in which Apu and Durga run in the fields of white Kash flowers when they see a train for the first time.A sad tale which never rests on its sadness and ends up on an hopeful note. It was the power of Ray's narration that spell bounded the world in its simplicity. Else for instance,how a person living in the riches of say,United States,feel for the frail characters in a rugged,rural,poverty-stricken Bengal..Its the beauty of Pather Panchali that it still remains a favourite with audience worldwide since 53 years of realease.
When I am having a day with my mood in an off-key there are certain images which rejuvenates me...Pather Panchali is one of those...
And as Sandip Ray,his son says of this landmark film,
"The film,as the name suggests,talks about the rhythm of life that turns victorious even in face of poverty,misery and death.Perhaps this is the reason the film has been able to stand the test of time."
And as the great Akira Kurosawa said of Ray's work,"To have not seen the films of Ray is to have lived in the world without ever having seen the moon and the sun."

2009- the answer it can be!!!

A new year has walked in...nice feeling!!!What historic changes from 31st Dec to 4th Jan to lead to hyper-partying,fountains of champagne & wine,flow of food and wishes and gifts??? Categorically speaking,nothing!!! As a friend believes and refuses to get excited,(obviously unalike the hyper-me)saying that its just the start of the English Calendar.Maybe right...Each year after the extreme partying,I too feel the same...but in the jangling and jerking of the high nerves,and following the footsteps of family,friends and like,always leads to a non-existent 1st of Jan morning..(this year I made it better,I didn't sleep 31st night!!!)
But what the fading away 2008 left behind in its last days-
1)Israel's attack on Gaza strip..Its today 9 days to the war!!!(As always wait and watch!!!)
2)A fire in a nightclub at Bangkok left dead and injured in hundreds at the strike of midnight on 31st Dec.
3)Blasts in Assam on 31st.(Did it raise any brows???oh,we are used to it!!!)
4)India-Pakistan hostility grows.But the innocents who lost their lives or their dear ones still waits the reply and justice and an assurance that it won't happen again in the political crossfire!!!(Just wait and watch...)
5)Five senior members from various teams I know at my mighty Investment Bank got fired..the economic crunch continues!!!
Disturbing...frightening...frustrating...it is spreading its claws fast around the world....
2009 has to be a beginning somewhere..to be an answer to the year 2008...Can we stop the wars?Can the rockets stop hitting civilian apartments and killing 5 year olds playing on their apartment roof,unaware of the aggressive world?Can the Indian government stop worrying of the upcoming elections,saving their grace and world image..and commit their souls to the fear-stricken India that it wont happen again tomorrow,that again when the terrorists knock our doors,we are ready to chase them and not take a step back???Can we all work with the fear of not losing our jobs in the times of financial turmoil?

"I am the new year.I am the unspoiled page in your book of time.....
All that you sought and didn't find is hidden in me,waiting for you to search it
but with more determination..."(Bible Illustrator)