“In this world, I am powerless. The melodies engulf my person and dispel all feeling of earthly existence. It is here that I discover a new being in me. With rhythm to my feet, I walk in a trance in the gardens of this heaven.” Indian classical music, as I can best express it, is [...]
Continue reading …We watched the news on the television, read it in the newspapers, heard the adults whisper among themselves. The twin towers have fallen they said. Someone mentioned Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. This is what it was to us kids, ten years back in a small hill town in the Himalayas – a piece [...]
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