A Poem Dedicated

मई यह कविता अपनी नानाजी के लिए समर्पित करती हूँ।
मई अपनी बचपन में बहुत सारी कविताओं के बारे में अपनी नानाजी से बातचीत किया करती थी।
उन अनमोल स्रुष्टियों में यह अति सुंदर और हमेशा याद दिलानेवाली कविता है।
smilie says:
हे भगवान्, कभी कभी मन चिंता में डूब जाती है यह सोचके की, तुम दयालु हो की नही?
मेरे नानाजी जैसे उन्मत्ता प्रेमियों को भी तुम बहुत सताये हो। क्या येही है तुम्हारी विधि?

Here the poetess prays aloud to the almighty.The poetess describes that she does not know how to perform rituals. she is neither rich enough to give garlands to the god nor can sing sweet songs for him. She doesn't have anything to give in charity.She says oh god! accept my true devotion. All that I have is love for you and true devotion.

This is a wonderful poem written by subadra kumari chouhan. This is an all time favorite for me.This one is my grandpas favourite too. I remember he was seraching for this poem for a long time. When I first read it in school, I discussed with him about this. He wrote the poem legibly on a big paper and stuck it on a cardboard and hung in his room.Also he copied it to his diary and the diary was with him always with lot many things that he wrote in it. I saw the diary in his cupboard even in his death bed.

Miss you Grandpa.

Raffle tickets draw

Cardinals are going to play super bowl. People here are cheering them in all possible ways.
My work place is not an exception either. We got a mail that the dress code is relaxed till feb 1st. We are free enough to show up on jerseys or anything supporting cardinals and can hang posters in our cubes.

There was a barbeque lunch arranged today for celebrating the upcoming super bowl. There was this lottery event where they were selling raffle tickets. Prize money was declared for winners and few non-cash gifts for some. We have been getting emails for last few days….
All of a sudden, half an hour before the draw time, I planned to purchase a raffle ticket.
To my surprise, I won a cardinals pennant . :))

Note: For those of you who don't know about cardinals , here you go:

The Arizona Cardinals, founded in 1898 and a charter member of the National Football League, hold the distinction of being the oldest continuously run professional American football, club in the US.

Read wiki for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals

Einstein Says...

“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”

Verses From BhagawadGita

कर्मन्येवाधिकरस्थे मा फलेषु कधाचन

मा करमा फल हेठुर्भु माथे संग्स्त्व कर्मणि

In English:

karmanye vadhikarasthe maa phaleshu kadhachana

maa karma phala hethurbhu mathe sangstva karmani

In English translation:

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action। Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. - Lord Krishna says

Today, I read a status message in gtalk which precisely meant what was told in Gita by Lord Krishna. My mom has cheered me many times saying கடமையை செய் பலனை எதுர்பாக்கதே.

When we work with this attitude, it really helps us to reach horizons.

Airtel Super Singer - a music show

Airtel Super singer is a reality show hosted by Vijay TV (a popular tamil channel of Star network). A singing talent hunt for people of various age groups is conducted and every year a best singer is chosen and awarded “Super Singer” title.

I have been watching super singer 2008 from the beginning. The show is compered by the popular singer ‘Chinmayi’. When I say Chinmayi and if my memory servers right, around 8 years back I have had an opportunity to see Chinmayi singing in ‘Sarang’( A popular cultural event of IIT Madaras). It was when I saw the famous Srinivas even.

Coming back to Super singer….Currently after tough scrutiny in several rounds, top 7 singers have been selected by veterans like srinivas, sujatha, unni Krishnan, Anuradha Sriram.

All the 7 selected so far, have given stunning performances in various rounds. It also makes me very happy that one of the top 7 performers works for my organization.
Few months back, we traveled together almost daily. But haven’t had a chance to say a hello.

Renu, Ranjini, Ravi, Rohith, Prasanna, Vijay & Ajeesh are the contestants.

Out of these 7 contestants, Vijay and Ajeesh have very different voices. Some people like Renu, Ranjini have very beautiful voices by birth and I would say they are gifted.
But I have always felt that Vijay & Ajeesh differ in some ways from the others and deserve good things. In each episode I have observed how dedicated they are.

In the last episode, these two singers received the best singer of the episode title by the legends Chitra & Mano.
Ajeesh sang ‘kalyana then nila’ song with chitra who has received national award several times and the state government awards from all the states in southern zone.

Vijay sang ‘ayirathil naan oruvan’ with Mano from the film Iruvar. It is one of my favorite songs and I enjoyed listening to that song. In its original version, Mano has sung the song with full of energy, voice modulations to simulate the famous singer of 60’s, the one & only TMS.

According to me: dedication, passion for singing and continuous effort to be one among the top few people matters, more than winning the title. That’s what Ajeesh & Vijay had mentioned how they felt when they received the keyboard from Chitra & Mano for the best singer of the episode title. That showed how much passionate they were about singing and all that they focused was to give their best.

I was surprised to hear a rocking performance from Vijay in one of the previous episodes. I even wrote an article but did not post it then.……

My favorite Mahalakshmi Iyer rechristened him as Vijay ‘Adams’ and the striking performance was the fitting finale of the episode.
Man! His voice was just like Bryan Adams…. I felt I was listening to the original version of summer of 69….His attitude was too good. That’s what the judges had mentioned too.
The way he was tapping his toes when he sang “Those were the best days of my life” was too good..
No words to appreciate it…Simply superb!

For those who are interested to see him singing summer of 69, click on the below link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCEGhrXGLI&feature=related

Enjoy listening!

A few words about Mano :

Mano is one of those singers who had a significant contribution to the film industry. There are few voices which are very famous among everyone and also they are remembered in many occasions. There are many contributions from the singer which are really enjoyable. For a long time he was treated as no more than a successful SPB clone. It was when he sang songs like shenbagame , mukkala, ayirathil naan oruvan which gave him a well deserved break.

-From a wanna be popular singer :))