Anoushka shankar live show

Hari prashad Chaurasiya, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Anoushka Shankar performed at Swami Haridas-Tansen sangeet nritya mahotsav.
This was a 4 day program and first of these classic shows of this year.

For someone who appreciate this genre of music and who loves sitting at a place and enjoying the soothing rhythm it would be a great weekend and was definitely for me

Today the auditorium was over-packed with maximum number of music lover as compared to the other days actually because it is a Sunday.
The host for the evening was Sadhna Shrivastav
This show goes back to being an annual event for 17 years and it started by the efforts of Vidhushi Uma Sharma.

The first performance was by Grammy winner Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. He played Rag Shyam kalyan. He is the student of Mrs. Ravi Shankar.

Then he played Meeting By The River for which he got the Grammy and you could see Mrs. Ravi Shankar gleaming with pride

Anouskha Shankar has been playing guitar since the age of 9 and was trained under her father Maestro Ravi Shankar $$$

Afresh

10 day through since we started this new year 2016. By this time everyone has almost failed at their new year resolutions. If u have not then you are lying or you have some one breathing down your neck to make sure you continue that resolution you made in the end hours of 2015.

I do not believe in this concept of resolutions because it just give you a chance to fail at something in the very beginning of a new year. 

In fact welcoming new year 2016 was quite weird for me because according to me new year began with the onset of academic year.No one will ever be happy about the date changing and being left with only 20 to 25 day before your dreadful exams begin but this year the academic new year and the calendar new year happened to have the same beginning

So this year I decided to leave a few things behind with 2015 and accept a few for 2016

• Subjects that made you miserable.                                                                         Seriously if you have a major to which you have to procrastinate and you absolutely hate then just leave it and give your life a new start.
• Let go of people some people in your life do not put in as  much effort in knowing you or being with you as you deserve. They rarely have damns to give to any good or bad about you but you still think that they are important. My dear believe me they are not, if they do not care about you or have the time to appreciate how awesome you are then they need to be left off with the old date
• Be thankful just spare a moment from your life and appreciate what all you have a roof above your head, a full belly and a few people to whom you are the world. if you have these things then you are the luckiest human on this earth. for that moment forget about what all you do not have just be grateful for all you have.
• Do that thing that you wanted to. maybe it is that dish you have pinned on your pintrest or that new restaurant you wanted to try out or binge watch that tv show you wanted to or read that book you bought but never got around it. Just do it for yourself.
• Save for something you really want to have. 
• Travel. 

Brain war.

It's always the war within the brains
But
The heart is always at blame
It's your brain who want to be crazy
It's your brain that stops you from doing so
The brain wants to fall in love without caring about the world
The brain is the one who is scared to let its guard down
But we blame the heart to be mad to fall in love
and appreciate the brain to think the best for you
It's an illusion of the brain which makes us believe that the heart is to blame
But the it is the brain playing its game
The heart doesn't make decisions
It is a mere slave of our brains
It's always the brain which is at war with itself and we still blame our fool heart

Will she or she will

Will she be always alone
Or she will find a hand to hold
Will she have someone to wake up to
Will she be considered the world by someone
Will she be somebody's sun
Would she get a good night kiss from someone for rest of her life
Or will she be a old dog lady till she dies
Will she be thrown off her feet when someone hugs her
Will she cook the favourites of someone just to see that person smile
Or will she walk alone on the path of life
Will she have someone to fight with
Will she have someone to say sorry to
Will she have someone for whom she would fight the entire world
Or she would end up in this world all alone.
Will she find her love of life
Or will she be too alone till the end of her time

She

She was young
She was pretty
She would smile and be bubbly
She loved her life
She loved her work

Until

she was uprooted from all the joy to complete melancholy
She was objectified
She was checked out
She was made to feel insecure
She was made to feel weak
She was made to feel vulnerable
She was broken down
She was raped
By those hedious monsters of society

She but was she
She was strong
She was capable to overcome those insecurities
She built herself up again piece by piece
And joint herself to a new she
Who was not as bubbly or smiling, but still had a beating heart and would breathe

From Believing To Trusting

Believing: to trust something without certainty.

When we first meet a person we believe what they say, we have no absolute certainty about their words.
When we get a new idea or when we start a new task we believe in ourselves to be able to complete it even here we are not sure.
It takes time to convert the belief into trust. And between these two things lies hope.
We hope that what we believe to be true so that the belief can be transformed into trust.
We also fear what we believe is not false because that can be saddening.
We gain trust in ourselves we are humans and we have a tendency to doubt and question and we question ourselves the most.
We question our belief, we question our hope, we question our boldness and then we fear for the consequences.
And once we have done all that we sit and wait for the outcome and if the outcome is in our favour then the belief turns into
Trust.
And that's the sweetest thing of all to be able to trust someone, something and to trust yourself above all.

But it can be the other way round, what we believe in can be faux, and the outcome; well not so pleasant as we expect it to be and that is saddening. If this happens we stop trusting anyone and we reach back to square one. This time more experienced, more cautious.

But does that help or our hearts rules out our brains ??

Bhakti Sangeet 2015

Bhakti Sangeet is annually organised by Sahitya Kala Parishad department of art,culture and languages, Government of Delhi

It was a three day program filled with music and rhythm with numerous popular artist
Performance on the first day were by Norra Sisters,Dhruv Sangari,Anup Jalota
On the second day Meeta Pandit,Shubha Mugdal,Iqbal Ahmed khan enlightened the evening with their presence
on the third day Arshad Ali khan,Sumitra Guha,Kabir cafe, Master Salem were there to tie all the people present in a bond of art and music.

I was there too listen to Kabir cafe play,I had seen them on The Dewarists and they were really good,so i was looking forward for them to perform.

The band has 5 amazing musician Neeraj Arya is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitar and man behind the idea of this neo-fusion of taking words of saint Kabir and putting them in-front of this EDM loving generation.

Mukund and his violin have an unbreakable connection
Raman Iyer's mandolin was like an extended body part.
Poubuanpou Britto did magic with his bass guitar.
Viren did none less than spellbinding everyone with the beat of the drums.

They played Zara Halke Gaddi Hakko, Fakkiri (one of my favorites) which had a very interesting line 'kya chinega tu garibi se' which means no one can snatch anything away from a poor soul.

There performance was  followed by Master Saleem.Who is a well known Bollywood artist

Overall, it was an evening well-spent with great music and music lovers.