Feelings

    I had a dream once. In that dream I saw all the organs and parts of the body fighting and arguing with each other as to who is the greatest of them all.  The bones said I am very required by the body as I give shape  and form to it otherwise the body would have been a ball of flesh !  The muscles said I give flesh to the body because of which the body looks elegant.  The skin said if I  weren't there  how  would the body cover your ugly frame and shape !  The mouth said i grind the food with teeth and saliva so that the body gets food. Then the stomach added I digest the food and give energy to the body otherwise how would you live?    The excretory organs replied no no , I remove the waste from the body or else how could the body be clean to work well ,the kidneys too echoed yes if the body isn't out of impurities the body wouldn't be alive even for a minute . The eyes mentioned , don't you forget me , if am not there...

  Hey all !! a musical hello to everyone!! What's that first thing that's comes to your mind when you listen "music", when I say so . Todays trends in musical world have changed considerably. Thanks to the digital world, everything is available on  a click.   Be it Bollywood, Indian , country music, folk music,   hindustani, ghazals, devotional, abhang, natyageet, bhavgeet , and so on , you have a plethora of them . As a student of Hindusthani music, I keep wondering how much can I really digest( obviously its too much to digest and one genre itself suffices for one whole life time to be true and practical). This learning does'nt really stop. And keeps continued life long or as they say  its a quest of the soul for years together and then in its future incarnations  if you believe. Or music is like an ocean the more you dive into it the deeper it seems. Such an interesting discussion, is'nt it.     It could leave you clueless if you don...

 Before I begin writing  today's  think piece ,   want to wish all readers a happy new year 2023 . Hope you have all begun the year with a bang  and may have an endless bucket list of "to do" things for the family , for career, for home, for hobbies and much more. For me musically , there's so much to do  as in riyaaz (the more the better) , everybody knows their limitations, and that music is a vast  ocean. It has enormous spectrum of opportunities and one should know where  he/she stands and what could be the next step. Today  I am just trying to share my thoughts on  how  I am trying to cope with my limitations as in voice type or quality..  We see a lot of young and energetic , promising artistes on reality  shows who are so amazing at their craft , I must say just to say "amazing" would be an understatement . So what about someone like me whose pitch or scale is low ,there is riyaaz  for everything but still...

 Music is all around , to feel it I  just try to let go of all other thoughts when I sing or listen .It's  I wonder in the thundering clouds just before rains.  Rain drops too bring down music to mother earth , and lo behold  there is greenery everywhere. Isn't it amazing I tell myself. I see it in the fluttering of leaves, when there is a cool breeze.   The breeze also feels like music when I am sitting silently on a rock gazing at  the rising sun.. I sense music when the birds are chirping in the morning or at tea time ,when I just want to do nothing but observe the colourful creatures that nature has in store for us.  It creates some kind of a musical wave  in the heart .Heart starts   pumping energitally , and I again feel the Music in the rhythm of the body the nature God gave us .  It is music for a mother when her baby cries or its music for a baby too when the baby hears mothers voice.  I love expressing mysel...

 Change is inevitable. It's very difficult to change yourself ,your habits, your thoughts . It can't happen overnight , after all you are made up of your thoughts which is reflected in your work. Accept that I need to change, for growth, for my wellbeing. Why do you change you change to improve, to learn, to quit the bad qualities in you, to bring in positivity, to bring peace in your mind, to be one with nature, to think I can. Tell yourself yes it is possible, with little effort everyday. Get up early in the morning, make a time table, follow discipline, you may find it burdensome, but tell yourself you got to do it, come what may.  You may compare yourself with others but this is the most dangerous thing you are doing, or you are simply trying to pity yourselffor the situation you are in and trying to avoid hard work. Come out of the shell, make like minded friends,  laugh, learn from others, appreciate, try and inculcate. Its not necessary to copy others, learn also t...

 Its raining, its pouring i said to myself looking out of the window. How am i supposed gofor work today . Its already mid October, weather nowadays has totally changed, yesternight it rained like cats and dogs, how long is this going to continue who knows...  Can u say its October now??!Children at school wish to sing "rain tain go away come again another day little johny wants to play".. I wonder how Diwali is going to be  after i am back from my weekend outing with family. Or even how my outing is going to be for that matter..Rains are good for some time, too much is bad.  Today had to ask my hubby to drop me to work thanks to the unattended unrepaired patches of road ..One or two gaalis for municipality  is for sure. Roads are so much clogged with water  u cant even make out where is the khadda, and by  chance you lose control,   you can't  miss that mighty fall messing u up  and getting hurt too. I was about to  say i like...