Hindustan Times
This week my halo slipped a bit. I lost my temper with someone quite unnecessarily and snarled at them. I went back to say sorry and sincerely repented my little outburst. But then I thought of someone quite the opposite, who is actually celebrated for having his foot in his mouth. Here’s His picture, done in the 18th century Tanjore glass painting style. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Renuka Narayanan on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Filed under Religion, She-baba · Tagged amar chitra katha, baby krishna, bala mukunda, gita govinda, Hinduism, Lord Krishna, tanjore paintings
Sometimes virtue is really its own reward.
I finally got around to cleaning up two ready-to-burst desk draws in office and found a precious lost book. It used to live in my bag for years, so I’m thrilled to get it back. It’s an anthology of verse and prose for private circulation made in 1992 by Soli Sorabjee and the late Rosalind Wilson, Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Renuka Narayanan on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Filed under She-baba · Tagged 'Humorous, Alice inthe wonderland, anthology, Lewis Carroll, silence, Soli Sorabjee, Tennyson's poem
I met the newly-minted Padmashri, Carnatic singer Aruna Sairam, on Wednesday for the sole purpose of deconstructing the abhang, which she is noted for. It’s ‘a-bhang’, literally ‘the unbreakable’ in Sanskrit, Marathi and Hindi, meaning the Word of God. The abhang is the semi-classical devotional song form of the Bhakti saints of Maharashtra, using classical ragas but with its own happy mix-and-meld freedom. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Renuka Narayanan on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Filed under She-baba · Tagged Carnatic singer Aruna Sairam, Sant Tukaram
