tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76488277103771322812024-02-08T07:48:24.115-08:00Leaves & SticksThis is a compilation of what I have been writing and uploading. Do feel free to comment.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-22464799693204843562020-08-14T02:56:00.001-07:002021-02-05T02:13:50.563-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's a lonely path<br />
Where I do not see even leaves<br />
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I walk, with not a soul besides me<br />
They all left me, in a misty time which was not joyful<br />
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My angels, they rest and watch over me<br />
Allowing my solitary tears to just fall<br />
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In a dreamy haze, I see Him<br />
A promise that is now never to be<br />
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He smiles from far but does not come near<br />
He is in pain, yet cannot ever be mine<br />
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He caresses my Soul, softly so</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I get a drift of a musty fragrance</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We swirl in endless dreams</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">With only passion holding us senseless</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A void,a chasm, a wind adrift with time</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Making us captives, like birds trapped in gilded cages</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">My tears fall, on a dusty rose bed</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Causing the tender buds to wilt</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I hang my head in sorrow</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Waiting for time to stand still</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In my dreams, I explore</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Worlds of passion</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Only to awaken</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">To emptiness</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kathak is a dance form
that traces back to the Bhakti movement. It celebrates the life of Lord Krishna
through animated story telling. An ancient practice, refined further through
the Mughal era, Kathak involves the notes of traditional music: thumris, todas
and ghazals. Taking this dance form to an awakened level of spirituality, with
the epic brilliance of abhinaya, swirling in her own parallel universe, young danseuse
Shivani Varma chats with Nandishi Shriram as she brings to life, a poetic
transliteration of the Sacred Text, Srimad Bhagwad Gita. In these dark &
uncertain times, using certain important shlokas from the scriptures, With her
specific style of emoting with eye movements, mudras, hand & footwork, the
dancer talks about how she has engaged audiences across the globe. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her ethereal
beauty has come alive in the temples of Hampi, Khajuraho & Konarak, as she
spins her magic with nimble adaas.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having performed before international audiences in countries
like the USA, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Serbia, Latvia, Singapore, Italy,
Morocco, Nepal and Bhutan, Shivani has founded “Samarpan”, a cultural NGO that
works to resonate Indian culture richness before evolved global audiences.
Rooted in tradition, yet associated with the fashion world, she has worked
closely with couturiers like Muzaffar & Meera Ali, Anju Modi, J.J. Valaya
as their young muse, using Kathak as her idiom in all its technical and emotive
stances.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With a host of awards under her glittering feathered cap,
the danseuse has contributed a lot to the field of classical dance. In May
2017, she was awarded for her singular contribution, for the cause of harmony
by the India Harmony Foundation. A recipient of the ‘NavKiran award’ in 2013,
Shivani has had the honour of performing for her country at both the Opening
and Closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games, held in Delhi in 2010. In an
in-depth interview with The Daily Guardian, Shivani relates her experiences
with Kathak.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A. Quoting my Guru, <i>Pandit
Birju Maharaj Ji</i>, kathak means anand, utsah & umang. It helps connect
me to my soul. The devotion I feel when I am in an ecstatic rhythm is
inexplicable. My regard towards my Gurus, <i>Maharaj Ji</i> & Shovana Didi is
unsurpassed. Their guidance, gentle prodding towards taking my performances to
expert levels, has helped me realize my chosen profession and my true calling.
With the feeling of Godliness around me, I feel propelled to reach for the
Infinite, the going away from the illusory world of <i>moh:maya, </i>into
Nothingness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Strangely enough, I never
did want to become a dancer, not a professional one for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I started learning early
on, with my mother encouraging me from ground zero. As I was growing up, I had
many teachers, many mentors. They all were my angels, guiding me even if I was
straying off my chosen path. It seems like synchro-destiny, opportunities
falling in my lap, and me being drawn towards dance. I am where I am today, all
thanks to various people who guided me.<span style="color: #222222;"> My Gurus
are <i>Pandit</i> <i>Birju Maharaj ji</i> and <i>Shovana Narayan ji</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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evolved into an onstage drama. How did you transition into ballets?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I have formulated ballets
with subjects like Mahatama Gandhi-Champaran Se Bapu, Devaki Ma, the city of
Delhi and many others. I feel that the urban educated young generation needs to
start developing a taste for the classical performing arts. It is totally
imperative that culture need to be steeped into the essence of the young blood
of today. It’s only about how the story is related, the literary texts, and the
lyrical rhythmic song that goes with it. The finer nuances come in the adaayein(expressions),
and the way the story is communicated. All my presentations are accessible to
all genres of audiences. <span style="color: #222222;">I have taken my shows
abroad but never felt the need to start my own dance troupe. I like to
collaborate with different artistes, and this helps my creative expression. Kathak
is such a versatile dance form, so natural in its expressions, it can easily be
adapted to most genres.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q. What is your
association with <i>Muzaffar Ali</i> and <i>Pandit Birju Maharaj</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">I would not
have even thought of being a performing artist if it wasn't for <i>Muzaffar Ali
Saab</i>. I was on my way to a legal career, working in a High Court Judge's
office at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">I met <i>Muzaffar
Saab</i> at a restaurant opening and that’s where it all began. He gave me the
opportunity to perform in Jahan-e-Khusrau, the Sufiana festival held at
Humayun’s tomb annually. Over the years, I have performed in their productions.
Our association is now <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">of respect,
trust and friendship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">With <i>Maharaj
ji</i> my first memory is of him taking my interview for admission to the
Kathak Kendra when I was a child. The next time I met him face to face was in
2010 for another audition, this time to be selected to participate in the
Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. As rehearsals were on daily for months, I
had the time of my life! It is difficult to even stand in front of such an illustrious
Guru. He has finally connected me to the reason I dance. I feel a sense of
fulfillment in his presence that I have never felt before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q. What do
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">The way
dance is presented, with a sensitive grace, and with technique, is key. I am in
favour of artists experimenting with the grammar and vocabulary of movement as one
can see the identity, thinking and creativity of the dancer. If done right, this
form of presentation has the scope of introducing a fresh approach to keen
audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you are in a vivid rhythm?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I feel as if I am in a
dark room where nothing is visible to the eye and still I know where everything
is. Every sense is heightened. There is ecstasy. But I am so in the moment that
it's the absence of feeling. I think I am still evolving in my journey as a
dancer and most such moments are on stage and its sheer magic! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;">I love
travelling. If it hadn’t been for this virus, I would have been holidaying on
the coasts of Amalfi, wearing my summery cotton dresses. Or relaxing in the
Maldives, in our private water villa, gorging on oysters at breakfast, sipping
a cool bubbly. On lazy days, I like my regular comfort food, Daal Makhni or
Kadhi Chawal. When my husband Vedanta & I step out for dinner, I like
dressing up in Indian attire, mostly a saree. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This curios creator
and his history are firmly intertwined together. He always dips into his rich
past to get inspired. At a subliminal levelhis heart ensures that his legacy,
his family’s rich history never gets eroded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead it remains alive, tweaking itself in a tiny way to fit the current
flow of refinement. UMANG HUTHEESING, from the Hutheesing family is linked to
both the Nehrus and the Tagores through marriage. He relives his past in this
article with Nandishi Shriram.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Early 18th century, charted the course of India’s most
prestigious families hailing from Ahmedabad, the Hutheesings. Marital alliances
with the Nehru & Tagore family, collaborations spanning the globe, with
fortunes jingling in the coffers, the powerful family has led the historic lineage
in Gujarat. Their stupendous rise in the business world had much to do with
Lockwood de Forest and Louis Tiffany, a renowned interior design firm from New
York. The family was aligned closely with De Forest with whom they created
decorated designs in wood for the Osborne House (Queen Victoria’s home). </div>
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In the early 18th century when decorative art for home
interiors was vital, De Forest discovered the genius of Maganbhai Hutheesing,
scion of the Hutheesing empire, and forged a partnership with him. Maganbhai
was a member of the family of merchants who built the famous Jain Temple in
Ahmedabad in 1848, one of the key historic constructions of this World Heritage
City. (The statue of Lord Mahavira still stands safely in the temple that is
still managed by the family trust. The temple fed 6 lakh impoverished people
for two years during the famine that ravaged India in the mid 18th century.) With
Lockwood, the Hutheesings started crafting intricate carvings out of wood.
Masterpieces that were to decorate some on the most iconic homes in the US. It
was with De Forest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Tiffany that they
added to the beauty of the west wing of the White House.</div>
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The merchants those days also traded in opiates as did the
Hutheesings. Shet Hutheesing KesariSinh, the patriarch of the family delivered
the opiates in his own ship, the Mottichund Amichund vessel, all the way to
Canton. Businessmen from the West got lucrative by trading Indian Opium with
China. The British Government based in India, smelt the money and wanted all
this abundant loot to themselves, and thenceforth a state monopoly was imposed
in 1878, curbing the revenue generation for the Indian Merchants. </div>
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The American partnership lasted for 32 years. Right up till America
went into the Civil war (1862-1865) and the art business was suddenly off the
shelf. Not deterred,textiles were introduced as an art form. The family then
added cotton to their design repertoire. Becoming mega giants in the trade, the
family brought in the finest textiles, antique decorative clothing, and rich
heritage handlooms and this helped turn Ahmedabad into a hub for heritage art.
The family fortune was vast, even before the British Raj. In fact it was the
Hutheesing family that invited Le Corbusier to design the famed Mill campus in Ahmedabad.
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The heir apparent of the Hutheesing empire and art
connoisseur, Umang Hutheesing has kept alive the family legacy. Preserving the
historic roots of Gujarat, Umang is a design genius, with his trademark style
of Aabas, an antique style of clothing, worn by Indian royalty. A maker of true
luxury, Umang is helping restore the fine craft of Patola, an ikat woven sari,
worn only by the Royals or aristocracy. The warp and weft of this traditional
handloom sari is decided by the colors and patterns.</div>
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Says Umang, “Our family owes its origins to Osia, near
Jaisalmer. A legendary family who were the Nagar Shet of Ahmedabad, we, the
Hutheesings have led an indulgent life. Over the years our family has helped
curate a vast collection of royal costumes. Which still holds as a legacy for
the future. Our style of preserving old costumes is unique to our legacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The artisans have been trained in royal
poshak-khaanas, and from our temples. We have skilled artisans working with us,
from the states: Bengal, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh & Kashmir.
Working with each masterpiece, whether it’s an embellished angarkhaa, or a wieldy
lehenga, the embroideries are handled with delicate mastery, using motifs from
the medieval times.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE HUTHEESING DESIGN
COMPANY REVIVED:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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From conservationist to creator, Umang, “I started designing
royal costumes ten years back.” With an inherent aesthetic sense, and rich
ancestral roots, putting together a luxurious garment for royalty is second
skin to Umang. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always sporting pure
khadi kurtas, Umang is all about adding flavor to Indian culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a revivalist, he is keen on keeping alive
the traditional cuts of the nobles. His label, Umang Hutheesing, only designs
clothing for royal families with limited edition pieces, keeping the
originality of the garment intact, with no repeats. </div>
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Taking exhibitions across the world, Umang’s label has seen
immense success. Hutheesing Design Company hosted an exhibition of antique
textile art in Paris, the year 2010, with the exemplary patrons, the ex French
president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Brunei. The firm was authorized in1882
to rework the East Wing of The White House, home to many American Presidents. A
looming, majestic building, the White House has elements of Indian design. HDC
has once more laid their regal imprint on the White House, by designing the
textured silk panels at Roosevelt House. “The eternal Tree of Life, with 50
stars of the American flag, displays within itself the Metaphysical meaning of
Life. The design in itself helps unify the Indo-American everlasting bond!”
Says Hutheesing.</div>
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Taking his design company forward, Umang relates how the
Hutheesing Haveli was revamped using his artistic senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hutheesing Haveli has played host to
political leaders, aristocrats, monarchs and the Prime Minister of India,
Narendra Modi Ji. Built in the mid 18<sup>th</sup> century, the Haveli is haven
of solace to the family.</div>
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In recent times, the haveli had recently started losing the
essence. Walls falling apart, damp creeping in, the haveli needed rework. Ten
years back, the reconstruction began. Craftsmen from various states in India
came together to put back the lost gory of an edifice, home to the Hutheesing
clan. The Haveli was restored with much passion, bringing alive a museum that
exhibited various cycles of Life. A little about the abode where the
Hutheesings reside.</div>
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The reception, Kamal Kund Chowk, was where mehfils were
held, with glimpses of Mughal Courts. Surya darbar, resplendent in colors of
the Fire God, is awash with an energy palpable and pulsing. The Navgraha room
is stunningly ancient, in the wall art depicting the nine cosmic deities and
many statuettes of the powers that be. Every room has a story behind it. And
history, generous doses of it.</div>
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For as said in the beginning, for Umang it is always
‘yesterday once more.’</div>
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defines the term ‘vintage’, taking us back at least a 100 years into time. The
birth year of the modern vehicle was 1886 when the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen" title="Benz Patent-Motorwagen"><span style="color: black;">Benz Patent-Motorwagen</span></a>
was introduced.<span style="background: white;"> In the early 20’s, the car,
something not visible in a world of horse driven carriages, was a refreshing novelty
for the wonderstruck moneybags. With an American revolution endorsed by Chevy
& Ford, these babe magnets heralded the descent of the posh & splashy
set of wheels like never seen before. </span>The ageless all-time favorites
with their out of reach listed prices indicated that only the upper class flush
with money could afford to buy these vintages beauties. Taking these badass
wheels for a spin was decidedly the ultimate in uber exhibitionism, for the
alpha male.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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automobile mass production was hailed as the progressive new normal, gone were
the days of looking for a coach or bogie for local conveyance. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Becoming
universally recognized then as the acceptable mode for transport, automated cars
helped people to traverse easily, to homes, marketplaces and ports of call. <span style="background: white;">Many commercial economies got escalated by the motorcar
industry, with eager enthusiasts sitting tight, waiting for the next automaton
beauty to be launched.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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maverick, a glimpse of the graceful life, <span style="color: black;">Tarun
Thakral established the Heritage Transport Museum Trust in 2006, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">with the objective of maintaining<span style="background: white;"> a
standard of excellence. With ample financial aid from the government of India
and donations from corpus funds, the Museum was launched in the year 2013. </span>The
intricacies involved in enthusiastic acquisition along with preserving the transport
collections is an art mastered by the Museum, while <span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">helping restore some of the most valued modes of transport on the global
landscape. </span><span style="background: white;">The museum </span>has
showcased varying assemblages of add-on collectibles, like rare original
lithographs by Thomas Daniel & Solvyns, a Flemish artist who had visited
India in 1797.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="background: white; color: #c0504d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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spellbinding chronicles revolving around antiquated machine control technology,
heavy transport carriages, streetcars, aeronautics and seafaring vessels,
exposing the culturati and the car geek to a bevy of memorabilia associated
with transport. <span style="color: black;">One of the prized classics is a wood
bodied tram from 1940 and a rail bus..!!<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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wheel, with the high scale spectrum of </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">recreational,
societal & culturally enriching facilities accessible within an easy reach
of a light walk, gifting the automaton connoisseur a full day at hand.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An art installation transferred out of metal parts of
Ford automobiles, reconstructed and bedecked out into an embellished Ganesha,
has had visitors captivated.<span style="background: white; color: #c0504d;"> </span><span style="background: white;">One of the Museum’s collection of priceless antiques,
is a railway saloon from the 30s, used by the Maharaja of Jodhpur, given to the
railways and was one of the first coaches to be used as the Jodhpur Saloon when
Palace of Wheels was inaugurated.<span style="color: #c0504d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The museum, a collector’s fantasy, is spread out over 3
acres, with four air conditioned floors, 100,000 square feet of exhibition
space<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>, a library and reference centre, a mini auditorium,
a museum souvenir shop, seminar rooms and a refreshment area. An hour’s drive
away from Delhi NCR, at Taoru-Gurgaon, the Museum has had an astounding number
of visitors-7 Lakhs and above, comprising of school children, university
students, domestic & foreign tourists, families from Delhi, Gurgaon &
adjoining areas, members of various automobile clubs, architects, designers,
researchers, film groups etc. With a handful of prestigious awards like The
2016 National Tourism Award, the 2016 & 2018 Traveler's Choice Award,
International PATWA award, the 2017 ITCTA award, the museum is a resourceful
& creative capacity holding a legacy for transport inspired artistry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The collections have been curated & administered by
Heritage Transport Trust’s Tarun Thakral, <span style="color: black;">lending his
personal collection to the museum, pro bono, primarily to take ahead his
passion. Taking time out from his daily hectic life as the Executive Director,
Le</span> Meridien Hotel, New Delhi, Tarun chats with the Daily Guardian about
his fervent passion for collecting vintage, classic, rare and much sought after
automobiles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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museum?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was travelling a lot and was fascinated
by the museums across the globe, specifically the Berlin Transport Museum,
London Transport Museum, the Glasgow Museum. The exhibits were rather
impressive, with uber chic designs and innovative spatial décor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India has a lot of exclusive museums:
the Rail Museum, which is quite diminutive. Hindustan Aeronautics in Bengaluru
has a museum assigned to aircrafts and aviation. The only other transport
museum was the Pranlal Bhogilal Collection in Ahmedabad, and its mainstay pivot
was cars. I wanted to create something totally different and contemporary, competing
with the world’s finest and nothing less. Pondering upon the fact that India
did not have any museum specific to transport, I decided to go in head first,
thereby manifesting my dream. The journey from start to finish has been
marvelous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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passion of car collecting, what has been the driving force behind this
singularly exciting passion?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After completing my Masters in Hotel Management in Paris
in the early 90s, I got back to India and got busy with my job at Hotel Le
Meridien, Delhi. On one of my <i>masti</i> trips to Churu, Rajasthan, I came
across my first ever antique car….a 1932 Chevrolet convertible, kept in a state
of total disrepair. It was love at first sight and I bought the car for Rs.
5,000, which was quite a princely sum at the time. The next couple of years
were spent restoring it, with the mechanics working on ever single part, to
make it drive worthy. The car was a remnant of the Partition, with only a
gleaming badge of the owner’s name. For me, bringing the car back to life,
fuelled my passion and over the last 30 years, I have been collecting classics,
with extensive research going in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see the nouveau riche aspiring to covet vintage automobiles, as must-have
prized assets, in their already burgeoning repositories?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; line-height: 115%;">In my eyes, there are two types of
collectors. The newly rich that are aspirational, trying to keep up with the
Joneses, spending a fortune just to possess a vintage classic automobile,
without knowing the real value. And then there is the genuine collector, spending
years to find that antique motor car which could hold pride of place in his
home. Collecting antique automobiles is an interest exclusive only to those who
are passionate about cars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have been catalogued as iconic, exceptional, classic & listed as vintage
machines, in your private collection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Collection:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1934
Buick Series 90 Limousine<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt;">A rear wheel drive
automobile sold by Buick, the limo is a part of Buick's 90 model series. It’s
the only Buick that has been recognized by the Classic Car Club in America.
These were the optimum luxury beauties manufactured by Buick, from the years
1931 through to 1942. These glistening vintage classics were furnished with
swanky details, making them superior to other cars in their league.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1932 Chevrolet Phaeton<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Introduced in the year 1932, at a time when America was
suffering from the Great Depression, the Confederate was at the highest ranking
position for car sales. Only 419 cars of this series were manufactured in that
year. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The car has been in the museum for many years and has been kept in
a moisture-controlled space.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The '55 Chevrolet was launched in 1954, for the
1955 model year. One of the most desirable Chevys, the </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bel Air Convertible appears in
the high class models’ categories of automobiles, much in demand and sought
after by automaton enthusiasts and speedsters, with its </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">two-door hardtop.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Ford Skyliner Retractable dazzled </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">American
citizens with its flamboyant styling and stunning engineering design, back in
the 50s. With its attributes of being the only verifiable hardtop coupé
convertible, the </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1957
Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner was </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">t</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he second </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">retractable hardtop</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> car in automobile history to be mass produced
ever</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, attracting attention worldwide, with its highly
up-scaled pricing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
vintage classic</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a top of the line </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">rust-free soft top with all the original parts, and a unique
design distinctive with its updated front-end styling from the American Car
Company, Ford. Launched in the year 1938, </span><span style="background: white; color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">this deluxe
model has been well restored and is beautifully maintained, with minimal wear
and tear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vintage motor cars, veer towards organizing and orchestrating auctions?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have worked closely with Osian’s
Neville Tuli, the connoisseur of art. Their car auction was held at Le
Meridien, interestingly. I was assisting them while they were orchestrating the
auction, but I totally stayed clear of buying and selling. I was focusing
mainly <span style="color: #202122;">on the aesthetics, documentation and history</span>
of automobiles, while <span style="color: #202122;">setting new standards for design.
Then, </span>AsthaGuru, the Indian auction house based out of Mumbai, was very
keen to learn about how I built my collection. Over the years, I have taken
part in international auctions in the United Kingdom and the US, to trace and
buy collectibles, tokens and souvenirs related to Indian transport. I have a
large collection of old posters, lithographs, which are adorning the walls of
the museum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. Are any of the cars at the Museum
ever hired out to for movies, advertisements, events?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On principle, we don’t send our valuable
cars or any other item out. Recently, Mohanlal & Sons, the clothing
company, had done a shoot with the models using the cars as a backdrop. When we
built the museum, we created conference spaces, so that multi-national
companies could hire our museum for their training off-sites, specially as we
have a lot of outdoor spaces and gardens available. We have even had weddings
held in the lawns. Our only condition being that the hosts must encourage the
guests to visit the museum, in batches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. Do describe a day at the museum. What
can a layperson like me find that is different and considered offbeat &
cutting edge?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The museum is designed in such a way
that the visitor can look in from any angle, with its multiple glass atriums.
The galleries have an open design module, with many art installations for the
culturati to enjoy, for example, Natraj Sharma, an artist from Baroda, has done
a thematic installation called ‘Air Show’, with multiple aircrafts made in
copper and encased in a grid. This installation has been sent to Paris, Tokyo
and New York. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then we have a miniature truck designed
by Pooja Iranna, and it’s made purely out of staple pins. Few of our
installations have been commissioned by the museum and few are on loan. For two
years we had the installation administered by PV Santosh, based on Victoria
Terminus, Mumbai. For children, we have designed pedal cars for them to spin
around in the outdoor areas. The non-ticketing space at the entrance has a
souvenir shop and a lovely cafeteria where all kinds of snacks are available
such as burgers, pasta, cool beverages and sodas. So, all in all, your day at
the museum is guaranteed to be spent well and fruitfully so. We hope to reopen
in few months, with a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>given that the
virus quells down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. Is the hotel industry disappointed
with the government’s issuance to keep hotels closed? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are open only for in-bound quarantine
guests from overseas. Our restaurants and cafés are closed until we are
informed otherwise by the Delhi Government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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viewing is a sport most city slickers look forward to. Going to the movies is
like a mini vacation. Nandishi Shriram chats with Sanjeev Bijli, Joint Managing
Director, PVR Cinemas to discuss the road ahead for multiplexes.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The big screen cinematic experience is a real
thrill. The treat of lying back on a plush, padded recliner, enjoying a
Japanese Bento Box, served up by an attentive steward is irrepplaceable! Gone
are the days of crawling into a nondescript, dark and dank smelling theater,
wolfing down a greasy alu tikki burger with onion and tomato along with pumpkin
ketchup…!! Only to watch Mithun doing his greasy swagger & running around
trees with a buxom Ranjeeta….!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like Andhadhun at PVR Luxe, you are assured a few hours of pulsating
excitement. The credits roll in and the movie begins. The film script has very
dark & grey undercurrents, with hints of the paranormal. The audience is on
edge, watching Tabu smashing the glass table in an underground basement, ready
to kill her prey, Ayyushman Khurana. Only the whirring sound of the air
conditioning can be heard, and an earth shattering scream rips across the
theater. Hackles rise, as Tabu whips out a knife. The high voltage, acutely
engineered sound system accentuates the smell of danger. An exciting 2 hours
later, you leave the theater relieved & happy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are missing this high that PVR is known for. <span style="background: white; color: #202122;">With an impressive tableaux of 800 screens, across 170
locations,</span><span style="background: white; color: black;"> PVR sets the tone
of modern day cinema viewing. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PVR hosts a mighty score of films, hand picked by the
in-house curatorial team. Whether it’s the latest Bollywood blockbuster, or a Marvel
Comics </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Superhero film, or the latest
cutting edge, Hollywood crime thriller, the week’s calendar is busy on the
board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
Critic’s ratings are stars 4.2 and above. The consensus for film selection is
directly in tandem with audience satisfaction, guaranteed and sealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are we going to be denied this pleasure and for how
long. The writer in me and an avid movie buff wants to probe and ask Sanjeev
Bijli, what got the brothers Ajay & Sanjeev to build the brand PVR. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It all began in the 90s with Priya Cinema that was a
family asset portfolio. Scenario then was of single screen cinemas, old,
dilapidated, infested by rats, with movies like Ganga Jamuna Saraswati
playing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had just finished my under
grad at Manchester where I first experienced watching films at a multiplex
theater and saw an opportunity there. My elder brother Ajay Bijli and I decided
to get into a joint venture with The Village Road Show, an entertainment
company based in Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I moved to
Tasmania for three months where I got trained in the entire gamut of multiple
screen cinema management, the scheduling of the films, the decor, the staff
management, branding. I even learnt to work the popcorn machine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the antiquated cinema hall experience to this slick multiplex thrill?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not really. The ancient theaters were dying
institutions. Seats were uncomfortable, canteens were badly run, the theaters
themselves were ramshackle. Whereas the Multiplex promised to bring in a new
avatar of cinema, well run, slick. Our first screens were at Anupam that opened
in 1997. The first day itself we were over whelmed with the response. God was
kind. It’s not as if the multiplex cinemas had not already launched in the UK
and the US. In a matter of time, they would have come to India as well. We just
happen to be the first one to bring it to India. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As luck would have it, even the movies started
getting better. There was a revival of Hindi cinema. We as youngsters looked
down upon hindi films. Suddenly it became fashionable to watch Shah Rukh Khan
do his jig on the silver screen with A R Rahman rendering music for films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We run all films on revenue share and have a
complete programming team sit out of Mumbai<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and work closely with the producers to decide how many shows to select,
how many screens. And that is how programming and scheduling of movies works. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We follow a
few principles. For instance a movie like Padmaavat will herald 3000 shows</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">while a smaller movie much lesser. We know
the pulse of the people and try and give the viewers enough choice to watch a
movie that is bound to be a hit. It’s like carpet warming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. Many impatient film-makers are releasing their
movies on NetFlix and Amazon Prime Video. What is your take on that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This period is unprecedented. We are living in
historic times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the partition was
not that bad because the enemy is invisible. There is so much talk of business
and the economy collapsing. My take on that is the world has lost 300,000. What
can be worse? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">If producers have sold their film to an OTT
platform, they must have had a massive compulsion. Otherwise actors, directors,
producers do want to see their movies on the silver screen. We cannot stop
them, it’s their livelihood and we are all in a pickle. Besides as Ajay says
you cant compare a retired player to an active one. We will be back in the
reckoning. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So many
people are living in cramped, living spaces. They want to get out. I am sick of
my couch. That is the first thing I will change once the lockdown ends!</span></div>
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originals? Do you think this will affect movie theaters?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is nothing new. Last year three online films were
nominated. In Hollywood there is a very strong opposition by directors like Steven
Spielberg and Cristopher Nolan. India is divided. I see it as yet another
platform to watch films. Cinemas have survived many technological invasions. We
will continue to co-exist. Movies like Avengers, Suryavansham can only be seen
on the large screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. Will the audience return to a centrally air
-conditioned cinema hall?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think we all have to be smart enough to
differentiate facts from myths. This fear mongering, paranoia does not help the
economy. It is the worst pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
will you believe: The scientists or a whatsapp from your neighbor. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By now we all know the rules: Wear an N95mask, wash your
hands often, maintain social distancing, look after your elders, shower once
you get home & you will be safe from the virus. Globally so many surveys
have proved that cinema is one of the few places where you are safer with a
mask on, looking straight in front at the screen. The transmission is not as
much as when you are face to face in close quarters to someone at a beach or at
a party drinking, smoking without your mask on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. What are the measures you will take to keep your
audience Covid safe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are hoping that the cinemas come alive by end
June.The Lockdown 4 is almost over. Only malls, hotels and restaurants remain
closed. We are members of Global Cinema Federation and we are hoping to
relaunch by end June and gear up for the release of Tenet by July 17<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have submitted all the safety and
precaution protocols to the Ministry of Home Affairs and await their
instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q. How will you ensure the audience is Covid safe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a whole protocol in place. We are looking
at cashless transactions. The masses must download<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the PVR app to book their ticket and meals-beverages
online. They should download the Aarogya Setu app for their own safety. Thermal
temperature screening will be undertaken at the entry point. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cleaning-sanitizing of the halls will be ramped up
to 3 times more. We have brought in a new UV Laser technology that kills
bacteria and virus. Doctor driven physical check ups of our employees be weekly.
Sneeze shields will be worn by all the staff. Hand sanitizers that are pedal
based will be deployed everywhere. There will be two set of hygiene protocol maintained
at the cinemas: one at the entrance and one before you enter the auditorium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q Would you take the cinema experience into the
drive in concept, with outdoor F&B?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We were all set to launch one in Mumbai’s BKC. Only
15% work was left for the construction ot end. We will get back to that but
otherwise this is not the time for innovation but consolidation of our original
businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Take care, don’t believe in myths, believe in facts,
be safe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are ready to bounce back and have taken the
safest and best steps to welcome you back to the world of experiences, PVR. Let
the good times roll.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A heady combination of sensualist
and gourmand adventurism, Rocky Singh is a veritable bundle of good cheer and
he believes in living life immensely well. Co-hosting the NDTV Good Times Food
Travel Show “Highway On My Plate with his partner, Mayur Sharma, the foodie
anchor is already burning the midnight oil with his third book on the greatest
passion of all Indians: Food. The show meanwhile has completed a record 230
episodes shot during travels of over <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">200,000
kms on the highways of India.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rocky in his professional avatar
has worked with British Airways and KLM. Though nowadays it is sports like
river rafting, trekking, scuba diving, hockey, soccer & golf that keep him
busy. That is when he in playing hubby to the gorgeous missus Rupali, a fashion
designer. The couple call living in Delhi ‘an exacting pleasure’, with 2 beautiful
kids, a complete family in tow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to 20 years and Rocky relives a strange occurrence with the occult, one that
turned his interest in the paranormal pretty deep. Researching high & low
for evidence of life beyond the living real world, he and Mayur decided to star
& direct in the TV series: India’s Most Haunted, changing the way the
spirit world was projected, with a series of freaky, fear induced stories. The
show went on to be one of a kind, with shoots in cursed houses & eerie
locales. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">From
unreal fear to real bravado, the duo went on to capture the might and
resilience of the armed forces on the show Jai Hind. Many a laughs were garnered
while watching insane antics of the actors walking dripping wet on a foot wide
plank, crawling upside down along a rope and then dropping into a tank of
water, 50 feet below. It was then that they got into their first love, food
with their hugely successful show Highway On My Plate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Taking
it many leagues up, Rocky & Mayur are now going viral making videos of
cleverly devised lists of marvelous food pit stops going across India, under
the tag <i>India’s Best Restaurants</i> on their YouTube channel Rockyandmayur<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span> The duo have travelled to locations
suggested by their fans, traversing the trucking routes providing state wise
food guides by mapping the dhabas, diners and cafés, sampling dishes that are
mouth watering and delectable and giving more meat to the avid foodaholic to
digest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rocky
relives his obsession with Bengali cuisine, as he & Mayur sample delicacies
like mochar ghanto (banana flower cooked with mustard), Daab Chinguri, Maccher
Jhol in Kolkata’s New Market. Lining their hungry bellies with alu poshto,
begun bhaaja, bhaapa maachh, juicy mutton kaathi rolls at Nizam’s, luchi alu,
jhaal moori, puchkas, the food lovers have experienced ecstasy in gourmand
heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Having
devoured freshly cooked Nolen Gurer Sondesh, a milky sweet meat delight, says Rocky…’I
would give my eye teeth to be in Kolkata just now eating all the authentic Bong
food.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chatting
with The Daily Guardian on his favorite topic: food and street side sustenance,
Rocky answers some questions for our readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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How did you discover new places where you could go eat? Did this depend on long
queues and crowds, as in how popular are they and the food turnover?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Initially
we would plan a route, let’s say Delhi to Manali & break it up into 200 km of
driving per day. On that stretch we would get all the journalists writing about
food to send us a list of the best eating joints that have been written about
for decades. And this was mainly street & regional food, not 5 stars as
those were un-affordable to the common man. As time went on, we started
gathering data from bloggers & locals. Like en-route to Chandigarh, Gulshan
Dhaba in Murthal is the best for breakfast with their freshly cooked paranthas &
garam garam chai. The whole mission was about the journey of bringing the glory
of Indian food to our viewers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In the dining out experience, would you consider desi ghee as a secret
ingredient to enhance the taste of food? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Desi
ghee has been a very active Indian ingredient for centuries, highly healthy and
is used to intensify the flavor of the food, provided you know how to use it
correctly. Making a dosa with ghee can completely alter the taste, or even
dousing idlis with gunpowder and ghee, as opposed to using regular cooking oil.
Add a dollop of smoking hot ghee with garam masala tadka to the cooked mutton
curry and trust me, this will make your mutton finger licking good. Desi ghee
is a very powerful ingredient and is a super food. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Have you ever had any encounter with a world famous personality? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">We
keep meeting people from different walks of life. We were shooting at Raan of
Kutch for the Raan Utsav, a carnival of music and dance. It was a full moon
night and with a full lunar eclipse to follow. The Prime Minister Modi Ji who
was then the Chief Minister of Gujarat had come to inaugurate the festival. He
recognized us as he had watched the show and it was a pleasure interacting with
him. We have had several actors on our show. Few of the most memorable ones are
Ajay Devgan, Alia Bhatt, Arshad Warsi. Ajay has a very pleasant personality. We
have shot with him, eaten with him, shared many jokes, he has a fabulous sense
of humor and is very jocular. This was just before his film Golmaal got
released. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What got you and Mayur to conceptualize HOMP and its title?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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show was started by NDTV Good Times. They were looking for actors to anchor it.
The director, Abhinandan Sekhri called us and as we were very familiar with
most of the food pit stops in the India trucking routes, we got the deal of
anchoring a food and travel show that went on to become India’s most popular
cult show on food. The title was apt and described the show very well. We have
had at least 7 shows, on food and travel, across India now, on 4 different
channels. One particular show is on the rarest foods, smelliest foods, most
expensive foods, spiciest foods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our show, we target spots that not many people might know about. My list of
secret spots:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pongal, podi dosa and snacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Uluvacharu & pickles. Gongura Mamsam-mutton, Royala Iguru-prawns, Chapala
Pulusu-fish curry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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choicest of foods in the whole of India is the Tundey Kabab at the world famous
Tundey Kababi at Chowk, in Lucknow The kababs are juicy and made traditional
style. I also love Kerala cuisine, and my favorite eating joint is in Hotel
Grand, in Kochi, Karimeen Pollichathu, and my chosen dish is Pearl Spot fish with
many spices wrapped and cooked in a banana leaf. Just outside Bhuvaneshwar,
Odisha is a place called Chilika Dhaba and the best thing to eat there is the
masala prawn, for Rs. 70, you can get 10 large prawns, fresh out of Chilika lake
right next door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Your 5 travel and eating related tips for your fans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carry your own drinking water, avoid drinking water anywhere outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Never make your travel about the destination only, as the journey itself is
important. Stop on the way to take in sights of historic monuments, sunsets, landscapes.
These all go down as memories to treasure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When you are in a particular region, you must sample the fare of that place.
Eating pizzas in let’s say Rajasthan is blasphemy. The authenticity of regional
fare is supreme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you are looking to eat well, then ask around from your local cabbie, concierge,
travel desk, and of course the locals. You cannot really go wrong. These guys
always know which are the best eateries to go to. There are also bloggers
covering cities & towns and a quick search will yield great results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Our channel rockyandmayur on you tube will give you all the information on 9
cities in India for the best restaurants, diners and shacks you could visit. Rest
of the food related data you can get in our books, which highlights every
restaurant we have eaten at, like a food wiki giving the phone numbers,
directions, what you should eat etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Do you enjoy cooking?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">In
the mid 90s, I opened my own restaurant called Café Spice, specializing in
Punjabi and Mughlai food. This was in Dilshad Garden, East Delhi. I had a
passion for great cooking and I ran the restaurant for 7 months, indulging in
my ongoing interest. I enjoy cooking street style Thai food as I trained in
Thailand with street vendors, mastering the art of making great Thai food from
scratch, using fresh ingredients. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Chironji Lal, a soft spoken yet assertive cameo in the
light comedy, ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’, had the charming Parvin Dabas essaying many
shades in the film with co stars Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Navin Nishchal &
Ranvir Sheory. The film did moderately well but it helped this suave Delhi-ite
get a footing in Bollywood, where angels fear to tread and rank outsiders stand
a thin chance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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cinema, Parvin worked in a multitude of roles before directing his first film
Sahi Dhande Galat Bande, Innately inspired by Anna Hazare, the movie met with
critical acclaim and a slew of awards: </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">a Bronze Palm Award at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_International_Film_Festival" title="Mexico International Film Festival"><span style="color: black;">Mexico
International Film Festival</span></a><sup> </sup>and a Silver Remi Award at
the Houston International Film Festival & a selection for the Indian Panorama
section of the International Film Festival of India, Goa. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">A host of reviews called this pocket dynamite
film thought provoking & exciting, with the ever jocular & feisty
Anupam Kher & the heavyset maternal Kiran Juneja ‘killing it’ in their
roles….. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Parvin</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> Dabas knew he was the ‘sahi banda’ for
directing films.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">That is when this fitness freak is not scuba
diving or cycling through mountains. Or photographing marine life under the
sea. Or simply staying home with his strikingly beautiful wife Preeti Jhangiani
& their two sons. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had been involved in
theater from my younger days in Modern School, Vasant Vihar. After graduating
from Hans Raj College, I had a rethink as I was playing the lead roles in plays
and subsequently I applied to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York
and HB Studios, studying drama. After an extensive stint of 3 years, I got back
to New Delhi and started my own drama group called ‘Urban Theatre Society’
where we did a handful of plays. Moving on from theater, I went to Mumbai and after
few years of shooting for ad films, I auditioned for Sunny Deol’s film..”Dillagi’.
That was my debut into the world of celluloid where I played the main negative
role, acting with stars like Urmila Matondkar. The film did not do well at the
box office. Nonetheless, my next one was ‘Monsoon Wedding’, directed by Mira
Nair. The film was my real launch pad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Q. As a reserved & mild mannered person, was it
difficult to get in front of the camera? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Terrified with acting
onstage in school, I took courage and went on to play the lead role in Samrat Ashok.
I was very introverted, and this role helped me break my shyness. I love
getting into the character and exploring the depths of the role I am playing.
This helps me peel off my mask and reveal my hidden persona. Acting makes my
inner thought process get definitive. It’s a hard process and a lot of work
goes into understanding every character, also knowing what the audiences want.
Every film maps different courses with diverse scripts, storylines, directors,
casts & crews. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you have acted in?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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such as Mirror Games, Darjeeling, Ragini MMS, Monsoon Wedding. Also, in the
recent web series, Hostages. Playing the principal character for the silver
screen changes the dynamics for my outlook and personality, as a key character.
It does not fundamentally mean that I get the most screen-time, albeit if I am
playing the lead, it usually depends on how I decide to engage the audience,
and on the acting method I may use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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has been the </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">best movie you have worked in till date?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">I loved acting in ‘Monsoon Wedding’ as the bridegroom in a
typically Punjabi wedding scenario. Being on the sets with noteworthy actors
such as Naseeruddin Shah & Lillete Dubey, it was a huge learning experience
for me and of course being directed by the celebrated Ms. Mira Nair. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">I have many memories attached to this film & I hold this
experience very close to my heart. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">It was slated as the coolest rom
com of that time.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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covid?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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working again, it’s one of the few industries which are recession proof. With
the OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Video, there is a large amount of work
available for the actors & technicians, plus people are always hungry for
entertainment. It will take some time for the cinema theaters to open, but I
don’t think the lockdown will affect the film industry in such a big way. Films
are already releasing on OTT platforms. Shootings have already begun, across
the country, with bigger films being produced in pre-emptive preparations for
the theaters to open up. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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become really big in India. There is a huge following for this particular brand
of sport. I have a driving passion for combat sports,which is why I try to
promote this through my media contests. When I was young, I practiced kickboxing
and Taekwondo. I have also started a website called Sportsindia.com. And an arm
wrestling company called Pro-Panja.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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temperate climates like Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Egypt.
The sea was cold though in South Africa and we did cage and open water diving
with tiger sharks. Scuba is a passion for me as I go in pretty deep and
photograph the marine world in its undersea serenity. It’s an expensive sport
and if you are claustrophobic, I would not advise it. After every film shoot, I
take off for my diving holidays to ease up. This adventure sport gives me
actual satisfaction and comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I get drawn to people who can make a difference in others’
lives, those who instantly light up worlds, where there may be darkness &
negativity. This particular type of humanity knows how to create magic where
there is none: these are people magnets, selfless game changers: a rarity in a
fast changing world. I get attracted to the soul speak in a person’s eyes, the
window to their inner being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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challenges you think the next generation will face?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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be it smart phones, ipads etc. Today’s young generations seem to have no
worries as such, it’s all about fun. They are so connected to the globe & their
scope of learning is vast, with the Internet providing access to literally
anything. Working hard to achieve results: using your hands, seems to be a
thing of the past. Back in the day, we had it much tougher. The way of the
world is headed towards virtual reality. The young gen have it easy…Combating
this will be the biggest challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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wife Preeti, who is such a wonderful woman, a total home maker, looking after
my family. My kids are still growing up, they are good kids. I make them earn
their time out from studies and sports. I am thankful for all that I have.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lunch with one person alive or dead, who would it be?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Cancerian. She was intensely humane, helping people out, and so detached from
her royal status. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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play was immeasurable. I wish he hadn’t gone away so soon. One of the finest
actors Indian cinema has had. And I look up to Waheeda Rahman. She has to be
singularly the most brilliant actresses ever. I have watched every single film
of hers, specially Pyaasa. She is beautiful, and timeless.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Psychedelic swirls, beholding vibrant palettes devoid of
cursive detail, Nida Mahmood, the beatnik flower girl, penultimate with her sustainable
apparel, home décor & mood board brand. Pulsating edginess in world fashion,
taking experiential economy to a high end twist, Nida is an original. High on
Chai, Sadak Chhaap, Maachis, Bioscope & </span><span style="color: #282b30; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Great Indian Bohemian Tamasha, her collections identify with Indian kitsch.
Pieces from her Maachis series found place in London’s Victoria & Albert
Museum for their India art exhibits. With a first ever showing, ‘Champaa Gali’
from India at Eiffel Tower, Paris, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">she was awarded for the Most </span><span style="color: #282b30; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Creative Design Collection. Free spirited, with travel as
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Kajol, Priyanka, Alia, Parineeti, etc, the design lady </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">focuses on simple silhouettes and technical aspects. Recently she
created an art installation for Absolut, with Kubrick inspired images super
imposed from the catwalk & the tailor’s studio. Taking her brand’s flavor
for the artfully quirky to a spicy balti-curry like innovation, the Hush Mob audio
visual art collective projection series has generated montages for trance
induced music lovers. Recreating stories for futures yet to be seen, Nida
speaks with the Daily Guardian on her specific genre of creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Q. What gives you the ultimate high when conceptualizing a
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<span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I get my high from creating something totally from scratch, that
which is out of the ordinary, and only my perspective for the world to view. I
so love the fact that we work with ideas that are not really tangible or
visible, if you get the drift. My Sapna Cinema collection got inspired by
Dreamscapes, and Technicolor dreams. The Adventure of Captain Must! Qalander was
my imaginary retrofuturistic flying motorized ant travelling through time &
space on his time machine, VDO Gaga. This collection was so metafictional and
surrealistic, it broke many conformist boundaries in the design dimensional spheres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I had just launched my new line called Goodluck Irani Café when
the team from Godrej got in touch with me to design decals for their white
goods and interior décor accessories. Godrej fits into the refreshing &
cool space that India is in, currently. I recognize this brand from my growing
up days as it helps me connect with everyday life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kitsch is ‘India’ in its people, crows & cows, its nooks
& crannies, and idiosyncracies.It defines anti-fashion, in a cohesive world
with diverse ideas to co-exist, with art & design to work as a
collaborative medium. I have a special love for it, and with some others in my
fraternity that have helped change the definition of Kitsch. It is now the
hottest rage for fashion & home décor styling. It has found recognition.
Unconventional and alternative fashion is now bang up to date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Davidson must have been hugely challenging. Do tell us your experience with
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<span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It was a very novel concept for me as I had to explore the world
of biking, which I had zero idea about. From start to finish, Harley the
colossus motorbike, a Godzilla on the roads, had me going retro funky painting
the murals, designing bike apparel using my mind space, with all its collateral
experience with psychedelic. HD the brand is distinctive in its individualistic
glory. I had a fantastic time working with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Q. What inspired you to start your sustainable clothing design
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of the largest contributing pollutants of the environment & our ecological
system. Look at what is happening in the world at the hands of careless humans.
It is important to be aware of excessive consumerism and the repercussions that
are creating havoc on our planet. This has pushed me towards proactively
learning about sustainability in fashion and to bring in practices that help
reducing the carbon footprint. For years I have been working on handlooms &
Indian crafts & along the way I have instituted my brand ‘Madam Marigold’.
My principles retain the ideology that fashion must be responsible where there
is no wastage or uncontrolled buying. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As an eco-activist and a responsible
member of the fashion fraternity, I am sensitive to defining ethical
development in the design processes.</span><span style="color: #282b30; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as much as possible. We make our dyes from natural materials like onion peels,
flower petals, cinnamon, turmeric, tree barks and fruits. The leftover waste
from the dye making process is composted back into the soil. Having seen
natural practices at our farm, this came easy to me. Creating natural manure:
compost, knowing its importance for plants’ health, working hands-on in our
mango orchards enabled me to enjoy gardening. It’s such a joy to provide green
solutions with my home grown terrariums & potted plants. The green shift
reflects in my very being and I feel very strongly about saving the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Milind Soman designing an active wear leisure line for Deivee, simply with the
intention of getting women to get out of their homes to run. Running, as we
know, is a vital part of Milind’s life, and by default he has committed himself
to alluring people towards fitness. We came up with the idea of making the
“running sari” so that women who don’t feel comfortable wearing fitted lycra
leggings and body hugging sporty tops can also find motivation of getting out
of their homes and exercising. I had a great time working with him. He is a
very creative man and I loved his energy. On a fun note, every time he would
come to my office, my team would be too star struck to even be aware of
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<b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A culture aficionado, a lover of good food and
someone who is at the heart of Delhi’s best parties NANDISHI SHRIRAM catches up
with SHREYAA SHAH, an incredible chef & successful caterer to couturier
dos, art shows and intimate dinners.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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is a therapeutic art, & Shreyaa Shah knows that well. Petite, pretty and a
great cook too; she is an interesting mix of Garhwali & Nepali roots. A
Master Chef, trained in the world famous Cordon Bleu School, Thailand, Shreyaa with
her miracle hands, rustles up magic in the nether world of pots, pans &
utensils: the kitchen. Always keeping good food and good health together.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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a fitness trainer, learnt that while people were onto fitness, they knew very
little about healthy cooking. Shah decided to change that, and Voila! </span></i><i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Shreyaa’s Kitchen</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> was
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Delhi
was caught in the Shah storm and there she was, cooking up Pan Asian, European
and American food, catering on order for Delhi’s well-heeled circles. She
innovated by introducing light</span> <span lang="EN-GB">palatable food, easy on
the gut & low on calorific value.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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food is at the heart of her business and Shreyaa shares her culinary secrets, giving
cooking classes to an eclectic mix of people. She also trains household.
domestic staff on cooking international style cuisine. Catering stays on the
forefront of her daily life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For me, healthy eating
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quantities, using fresh organic produce, mainly more greens, yellows & reds.
I avoid gluten as it adds to belly fat. It’s all about how good the food
tastes, obliterating the level of toxins: extra fat, refined sugar etc. Fruits,
raw vegetables, fresh salads are great for digestion & the gut. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Mojo is: Think healthy, think wise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I would say yes. If
you are a frequent traveller to the western shores, then you know your wines,
and know the courses. The jet setter is highly tuned into etiquette of the
table, living room and more, as the exposure to the west is high. Though,
inside our homes and within our real life we are still rooted very deep in
Indian traditions. We live on our staple diet: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">daal, chaawal</i> & one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">subzi</i>.
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My easy feast is mini
egg sandwiches, a warm potato salad, and avocado on toast, a hummus dip served with
a minty cool ginger ale. Almost a picnic lunch! You just need few things at
hand: Whole-wheat peasant baguette, boiled eggs, boiled potatoes & mayo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sandwiches: Mash eggs; add a pinch of Dijon mustard, salt, parsley & a dash
of butter. Cream the eggs, cut the bread in diagonal slices, butter the bread
lightly, face up. Now paste the egg mixture and press another slice on. Use hummus
as a dip. We make really nice hummus, bottled and ready for home chefs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As a starter you could
mince the pulp of two avocados, add a dash of salt, mix kalamata olives and
cream on to bite sized mini toasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For the potato salad:
cut the potatoes into bite-sized chunks, drizzle warm olive oil, chop spring onions,
mint leaves and toss up with a light squeeze of lemon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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home catering venture. Restaurants need time, investment & a back up plan
for 7-8 years, at least, which is not such a bad thing. With Shreyaa’s Kitchen,
I have freedom to some extent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ordering take out. And of course, I will be listing my trademark recipes, and
tips on healthy eating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. In a saucepan on medium heat add
vegetable oil, red curry paste, cumin powder & stir for 2 to 3 minutes
until aroma develops.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then add the eggplants .Allow it to boil. For about 1 minute.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Add seasoning, kaffir lime
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s not easy to be a
Bangash. A tough mantle sits on your little head, right from childhood. A
pressure to perform takes over. And if Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Saab happens to
your father then, you are sure to be compared all life long. Yet Ayaan Ali
Bangash has carefully carved a distinct niche for himself. A crisp interview
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ayaan is a dapper, humble, respectful man of great lineage and
talent. In his delicate, nimble hands he has inherited the magical gift of
playing the Sarod from his father, Ustad Saab and through his legacy he relives
the strong musical tradition of the Bangash Gharaana. Rendering raagas & symphonies,
performing at concerts, he has brought to the world, a legacy of soul song. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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debut in the early 90s. Performing all over the world, winning many awards
& accolades, he won over many hearts. With his tender renditions of melodies,
his enigmatic stage presence and his innovation of the classic form, he has to
his credit an illustrious career spanning over the last 20 years. His style of
playing is intense, with a piercing clarity rendered in the Alaap, an
intricately woven traditional Gat, blended into a Morning Raaga. He and his
elder brother, Amaan Ali Bangash, have many a times formed a trio with their
father, the much-respected Ustad, </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Padma Vibhushan </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amjad Ali Khan Saab, creating
lyrical harmonies of love, faith & belief, true to essence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Going back
into time, the musician shares that his father Ustad </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amjad Ali
Khan Saab</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the
youngest of seven children, born to the Gwalior based maestro Ustad </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_Ali_Khan" title="Hafiz Ali Khan"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Haafiz Ali </span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Khan</span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> </span></a><span style="background: white;">& Rahat Jahaan. Haafiz Saab received training from
the Beenkar, Wazir Khan, a direct descendant of none other than Mian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansen" title="Tansen"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Tansen</span></a><span style="background: white;">, the magical musician, who was one of the 'Navratnas' at the court of
the Mughal Emperor, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar" title="Akbar"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Akbar</span></a><span style="background: white;">. In times of yore, schooling of the arts was done
with the Guru-Shishya Parampara, a Vedic tradition where knowledge is imparted
and a spiritual relationship is formed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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encyclopedia of learning, sitting at his father’s feet. Years of riyaaz have helped
him hone his skills on the Sarod. He is known to leave the audiences gasping, </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">soulfully enraptured as he
deftly renders raagas on his Sarod. Many a parallel universes are created as
the listener is transported into a meditative space. A stringed instrument, the
Sarod is one of the most important concert instruments in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Hindustani-music"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Hindustani music</span></a><span style="background: white;">.
In today’s times, Ayaan’s family upholds the lineage of Sarod players.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In recent
times, the trio performed at the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo.
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Millennium
Year 2000, Ayaan performed with his father at the Dalai Lama’s Sacred Music
Festival inauguration in New Delhi. The brothers Ayaan & Amaan have written
an ode to their father, titled ‘Abba-God’s Greatest Gift to us’. The book was
published in 2002, charting the impressive history of the Ustad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In their dual recording, the album Amalgam, the brothers
collaborated with Elmira Darvarova, the American Classical Violinist, to help
recreate world music. A brilliantly rendered work, Amalgam is a blend of Indian
& Western tradition. He shares a bit of his life here.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My conditioning from the time I entered the world was in a musical
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am privileged to inherit a legacy from my father. His excellence
in music is a tremendous inspiration. Polite, understated, kind is his persona.
My relationship with Abba is of a father & son, not of a Guru & Shishya.
His teachings to Amaan Bhai & me have helped us form our own philosophies,
he is our Mentor. Without him, I am anchor-less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q. Your
passion on stage while performing is evidently visible. What is your essential
emotion towards music?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Music is who I am and my nature reflects in my music. No
rehearsals. When Bhai & I play duets, we create symphonies through our
connection to God. It’s like praying. Head bowed in humility to the Maker, the
resonance of the strings work with my fingers, with my Sarod, my comfort
factor. Inexplicable is my friendship with my music, sleeping or awake, I am
tuning my limbic sensory mind into a heightened space. The sound of the Wind,
the silence of the Night, speaks to my Soul. I derive inspiration from the Godly
senses…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I remember music as an essential part of my life, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jabse hosh sambhala thha</i>. Maa & Abba
would encourage us to listen to the music of an entire range of artistes, from
the late 18<sup>th</sup> century to the mid 19<sup>th</sup> century. Prominent
artistes from my grandfather’s time, to Abba’s contemporaries. And we did tune
our ears to music of the West & Hindustani filmy music. K.L. Saigal, Hemant
Kumar, Lata-Asha ji, and the current music from Bollywood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Sarod is a very difficult instrument. A lifetime is not enough
to master or rather understand what the instrument wants to say. We press the
strings with the edge of our nails and not with the fingertip as in most
stringed instruments. There are no frets like in the Sitar or the guitar. You
are pretty much walking on the edge at all times. Hours and days of Riyaaz are
never enough. When we are travelling for concerts, we always give in our
resting hours to tune into the Sarod, which helps us ease into a calm space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q. What
does Music mean to you? How would you take your particular brand of music into
an ongoing world of existentialism?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To me, music is a constant evolution. You have to keep
incorporating your life's experiences, your journeys, your highs and lows into
your music: your way of expressing your Soul’s inner dilemmas & joys. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is no formula that defines the presentation of music, except
that the base must be solid, of Raagas, which have been in our musical roots
for centuries. Social media has its positive and negative effects. So much
digital content online is available that a young music student can get easily misled.
To take Indian Classical Music forward, I advise practice, hard work, and
riyaaz. Remastering, editing digital content, short cuts don’t work. To exist
as a keen lover of the finer arts, you need to be attentive to your studies of Shastriya
Sangeet. There isn’t an instant coffee culture that you can follow! The age-old
slow and steady mantra wins for the generations ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q. Do you
& your elder brother perform together? How does that work?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes, we do. Our performances together really are effective. Last
year, we performed many duet concerts. As a duo, we get inspiration from each
other. Amaan Bhai & I have only known music as our Pranaah: Life Breath.
Music is what we are, like water is to a vessel. Over the years, Bhai & I
have tried to take our Sarod playing to new heights, performing all over the
world. We have received so much love & adulation from music lovers all over
the world. Performing in nearly every city across the world, collaborating with
musicians of International repute, getting many awards, has helped us carve a
place under the Sun, with all humility, paying obeisance to the Almighty. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We feel
honoured to collaborate with Guitarist Sharon Isbin in our latest works, Strings
for Peace! It’s released on all digital platforms. When you hear the album, you
can feel the intricacy of every beat and rhythm and you will be transported to
a different consciousness. This collaboration is unique as we all have
extracted the best out of each other, in our message to the World, of Light
& Love.</span><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q. Which
are the Raagas for various seasons of the year? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A Raaga is made of a set of ascending and descending
notes within a certain discipline. It is much more than a scale, which
also refers to the set of notes. A raaga has distinctive features with
prominent notes, combinations of notes and timings of the day and season.
However, there is no logical explanation as to why a raaga is seasonal and why
certain raagas with the same combination of notes become a morning raaga or an
evening raaga. Thanks to YouTube, there is so much content available out
there. We are just a click away from thousands of hours of research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am revisiting many old recordings of many great
vocalists at this time and also reinventing my musical journey. It’s not time
bound. Indian Classical music has indeed a very spiritual and scientific
development and growth. This is a phenomenon that has existed from Vedic times.
The tradition of classical music dates back to the Samveda period. The earliest
version of classical music was the Vedic chants. Interestingly, the effect of
all the twelve notes on our body, mind and soul is very scientific. If we
sing out all the twelve notes with concentration, the human body receives all
its positive vibrations. In fact, the positive effect transcends even on plants
and animals. Various permutations and combinations give the scales a shape of a
raaga.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He comes to me, in love, as a star<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We cross over to realms only we can see<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-59910086959434142312016-01-23T07:19:00.001-08:002016-01-23T07:19:06.239-08:00Time, through Eternity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Time, through
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The warrior, the damsel, the one that only he can
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-64731664884617153562016-01-23T07:11:00.002-08:002016-01-23T07:11:25.376-08:00A fragrant breath<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A song that may have touched your Soul<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I awaken with a memory of a lonesome dream<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When you saw from me from afar<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You made me know, the magic of a pure love<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Where you may not see me ever again<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Remember the times we shared<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Of love that remained true<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For when I enter the Light<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For it a love, fragrant as a dream<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-32012502383273015512015-06-07T02:07:00.000-07:002015-06-07T02:10:36.637-07:00Rain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was a beautiful rain<br />
Where all my tears soaked up the Earth<br />
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I flew past clouds, full of rain<br />
I looked down upon the world at large<br />
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I saw a lonely soul<br />
Standing there, with no one around her<br />
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She was told by many<br />
That they will always love her<br />
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Yet they walked away<br />
When she needed them the most<br />
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She stood, looking lost<br />
At the world at large<br />
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No one saw her pain<br />
Felt her loneliness<br />
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They thought her selfish and uncaring<br />
When she was right there by everyone she had ever loved<br />
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Giving her heart and soul into every special one<br />
That crossed her way<br />
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Her heart was once more broken into pieces<br />
As he walked away from her<br />
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Leaving her, bereft and wondering<br />
If this life was worth living<br />
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Yet she got over her grief<br />
Moved silently in pain that was getting numb<br />
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For no one really loved her<br />
Except herself and her soul<br />
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Wandering from place to place<br />
But never finding peace<br />
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For she knew not<br />
That peace was to be found within<br />
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I look down upon that Soul today<br />
Lost not, at peace at last<br />
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No more rain for her<br />
No more tears that soak up the Earth<br />
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For she smiles as she moves ahead<br />
From destination to goal<br />
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Knowing that Life must be lived<br />
With happiness and not with tears<br />
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She finds herself finally<br />
In a world that never really cared<br />
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Alone is not she<br />
For with her is Love<br />
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That comes from Within<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-78048688330116437832015-05-09T07:23:00.000-07:002015-05-09T07:23:05.170-07:00The Gorkha Earthquake 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">April 25<sup>th</sup>, 2015 was the worst day in the history of Nepal.
No one knew what was going to hit them. At 11.56 am, 25<sup>th</sup> April,
an earthquake of the magnitude of 7.8 mw on the Ritcher scale shook the very
core of Nepal, leaving many injured, dead, homeless, missing. The Gorkha
Earthquake killed more than 7,000 people and injured twice as many. Numbers are
still on the rise. The epicentre lay in Barpak village of Gorkha district.</span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It was the most powerful disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934
Nepal–Bihar earthquake. Some casualties have also been reported in the
adjoining areas of India, China, and Bangladesh. The earthquake triggered an
avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 19, making it the deadliest day on
the mountain in history. Mountaineers trekking there have gone missing It
triggered another huge avalanche in Langtang valley, where 250 are now
missing..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed rendering people homeless
with entire villages flattened, across many districts of the country.
Centuries-old buildings were destroyed at UNESCO World Heritage sites in the
Kathmandu Valley, including some at the Kathmandu Durbar Square, the Patan
Durbar Square and the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. Geophysicists and other experts
had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a deadly earthquake,
particularly because of its geology, urbanization, and
architecture. Continued aftershocks have occurred throughout Nepal, with
one shock reaching a magnitude of 6.7 on 26 April at 12:54:08 NST. The country
is at continued risk of landslides as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Meanwhile, in New Delhi, at a house in the esteemed Lutyens’ zone, works
quietly a group of dedicated individuals in aiding the Nepal quake hit to come
to terms with the tragedy that has struck them and their dearly beloved. This
dedicated group is the Hope For Nepal Foundation, which was set up on
August 23rd 2010 by Praggyashree Raje Gaekwad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The Hope for Nepal Foundation’s Delhi branch is based out of Priyadarshini Raje
Scindia’s home, where tonnes of relief material are pouring in every single
day, by the hour, by the minute. A team of dedicated people, Shivani
Rajyalakshmi Singh, Priyadarshini Raje Scindia, Pragyat Singh, Nima Martins Sherpa
and many others work in the gruelling scorching Sun every single day,
forgetting to eat, let alone drink water, to sift supplies, the perishables and
the non-perishables, the immediate and the not so immediate in need, ensuring
that all relief supplies that arrive are sent in good condition, by road and by
air. Jet Airways has been requested to keep slots for the Foundation and has
been airlifting the supplies whenever a slot is available. A distribution team at the other
end, in Kathmandu, has been deployed to receive and ably distribute the relief
supplies. Monetary aid has been coming in to Hope For Nepal Foundation to help
in rehabilitating the poor and needy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Friends of HFNF have rallied around, sending tents, essential supplies
like dry ration, instant food, biscuits, medicines, water, warm clothes,
blankets, medicines, injections, tarpaulins, water and even thin tin roofs. The
founder of the group. Praggyashree Raje Gaekwad, herself a doctor is in Nepal with
the help of her able group of Nepalese kinsmen are distributing the relief
supplies. Trucks of goods are being loaded every other day, with people
deployed at the Indo-Nepal border to receive the goods so that no pilferage
occurs. Mobile hospitals have been set up, soup kitchens with the HFNF’s
kinsmen and staff help the needy and devastated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">HFNF has been dedicated to helping at the grassroots of Nepal for the
last 5 years. The outreach of help is now spilling over to villages that have
been wiped out by the earthquake. HFNF is primarily dedicated to helping Sankhu
village which is now a ghost town as 90% of the village has been totally
flattened out by the earthquake. Shelter tents, sleeping bags, blankets,
tarpaulins, torches, water, instant food, first aid kits, medicines have been
provided by the Foundation. Search buses have been deployed for the missing and
displaced. Ambulances are on standby to rush the injured to nearby
hospitals. HFNF dedicates itself to moving from one devastated village to
another, working to ensure that these villages get resuscitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It’s heartening to see the people of Nepal, fighting against all odds to
give back to their own country, in the land of the Buddha, the land of calm and
peace. Groups in India have been helping too in every possible way, creating
help whatsapp groups, volunteer groups etc. Doon School Old Boys' Association,
Midlands Langar Sewa and many other groups have been rallying forth to help the
Nepal Quake affected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Families have gone missing, houses have been reduced to rubble and
villages have been wiped out. Heritage sites have been reduced to
nothing. There are places high up in the mountains where people are
totally stranded with no one being able to reach them, not even helicopters.
The Indian Army, the Nepalese Army and the Nepal citizens are trying their
utmost best to help the land that we all have loved dearly, having visited it
at least once in our lives. Volunteers, doctors, others are in the midst of
this massive devastation, helping the injured, the homeless, the starving.
Numbers are on the rise as many are lying dead under
rubble. Onset of disease is setting in. Monetary aid is pouring in from various countries but as a
land that has a huge deficit, it will take at least 2-3 years for Nepal to be
rehabilitated and back to its former glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In this time of crisis, we as a Nation, must come together and pledge to
help Nepal, a country that is dear to all. We must have heart as the Sun that
has been shining for us, must shine once again for our Nepal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">A moving poem written by Shivani Rajya Lakshmi Singh:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">"While you sleep peacefully on a comfortable bed, my people are
awake waiting for the slightest ruffle in the bush.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While you sit with a belly full of food, my people lie restless and hungry.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While you enjoy a luxurious bath, my people are thirsty.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While you host gala dinners, my people wait for electricity.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
While you travel to exotic lands, my people are trapped under rubble.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While you wake up in an air conditioned room, my people seek shelter from the
rain.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
While you sit around and speculate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
My country bleeds..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">For donations, please draw a cheque in favour of:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Hope For Nepal Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">And send to: 27 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Written by Nandishi Shriram. Email: nandishi.shriram@gmail.com</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-71334387047713529652015-01-20T04:01:00.000-08:002015-01-20T04:01:00.848-08:00Void<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the vast Ocean of existence, I swim with just you<br />
Reaching out to a bottomless pit, I gasp<br />
There will be no tomorrow for us<br />
Only a yesterday that we dreamt<br />
You held my hand and made me smile<br />
There was promise hidden there<br />
I found love when I was aching so<br />
You filled my void, lovingly so<br />
Today I am empty, filled with only nothing<br />
I remember you fondly and bless you so<br />
My shining star and a courageous hero<br />
You will always occupy my heart where pain now resides<br />
I will miss you, your beauty, your depth<br />
For where I am right now, I only see empty landscapes<br />
Where a smile one resided, love once lived<br />
I do hope and pray that we get back to where we once were<br />
As soulmates, children of the skies, lovers, friends<br />
Until then, I wish you goodbye and hope that you will miss me<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-63405921325532071322014-01-29T19:32:00.001-08:002014-01-29T19:32:40.789-08:00Eternal Pain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the fading light, you come to me, with a lonely heart that needs just Love<br />
I smile, I will be always Yours, just for this moment in Eternal Time<br />
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For we will walk a restful Wind, with Love in our hearts, Pain in our Souls<br />
My Love, you can never be mine, yet we Love, today, tomorrow & forever<br />
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In a timely wind that caresses my aching soul, you turn back and let me go<br />
I walk on, smiling, because I know, you may not forget me, yet we draw apart<br />
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Resting, loving, whispering, laughing, crying<br />
I look at You, in a sweet slumber<br />
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Dreaming of tomorrows that may never ever be<br />
Hoping that we be together, but cannot ever be<br />
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Love me and let me Go o wandering Traveller<br />
I will be yours, some day, some time, another Eternity<br />
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Walk with me, on this turbulent Wind, where only Blood can be seen<br />
Of tears left undried, pain that sears your very heart, a knife that bleeds my Soul<br />
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Let me Go, forever and ever O Friend<br />
In the Morrow, you will meet me<br />
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Another face, another Time</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-32519691693442945132013-10-14T18:48:00.000-07:002016-01-23T07:16:25.790-08:00A gentle song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s not everyday that I hear your gentle song</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For its only your pain that I have felt, for centuries</span></em><br />
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<o:p><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></em></o:p><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You came to me in my dreams, a young boy</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I held your hand and we went by the river</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A breaking light, a lady with a red glow</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who was she, my friend, the lady with many arms & little lights?</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blessing us as we walked by the river side</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A crystalline river, a holy place</span></em></div>
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</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You came to me as a blessing</span></em><br />
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</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sent from the heavens above</span></em><br />
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</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A pure, clear aura</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You came and held my aching heart</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With your playful smile, you made me laugh & cry</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I do say I care, I will always do, till the day eternity
stops</span></em></div>
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</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s a silvery shackled bond that you cannot escape</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You have pledged that you will always be by my side</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A shining star, a silvery light, you shine for me</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A raging anger, a redness emanates</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For you, you have it all in you</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To see, to perceive</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet a beauty that rises, from your very depths</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Permits me, a wandering soul, to give you time & space</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There will be no one who would take your place</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No one that I will ever love, the way I love you, a divine bond</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From a pure, divine source, a love that cannot be understood</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time, and all eternity has witnessed the meeting of two
souls</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Parted from another life as child, mother, soulmates</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To come back in this life and relive our karma</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<o:p><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></em></o:p><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To Nirvaana that I seek, I beseech you, do not part with me
this time</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For then we will have to be reborn once more, and many such
lifetimes will be seen</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By the universes that run parallel.</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come walk with me, this wind that I tread, O Pious stranger</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We tread a golden wind, of times yet to be seen</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of yawning chasms of timeless eternities that you will never
know</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wait, weeping solitary tears, For you to come back from
where you have gone.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come embrace this tree, that rests in a green garden
that I walk upon</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A diamante circle, a Silvery Moon looks askance at me</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where will you be, when I seek, just seek a soul?</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s just time, only time. The beloved is what we seek.</span></em></div>
<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-82038101671863796622013-02-05T00:23:00.000-08:002013-02-05T00:24:29.428-08:00A Mystic River<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A mystic river runs through my aching head</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My soul cries out loud</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For what is this silvery river</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That causes me pain, yet again...</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its the sorrows of many lives lived apart</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Knowing we can never be together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this cosmic reality of pure love</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We yet could not be together</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I ache to hold you in my fragile arms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wanting only love</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet you bestow me with tears</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stained with the blood of sorrows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And hurt well lived</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I live with memories of your unrequited love</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I flow in my river of pain</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of hearts that could never be one</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of souls separated through destined fate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I long for your smile, your eyes resting on my tears stained
cheeks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet you never come</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You love me, yet you say you cannot be mine</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I live in the depth of my swirling heart</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of turbulent emotions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I swim in the oceans of existence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Knowing you can never be mine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet I love you so</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So let me go, flying to my abode</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of lonely calm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where only my soul resides</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And my pained heart</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I rest in my wilful sorrows</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hoping that some day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some day you will say you are mine...</span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-16193350764788070502012-09-29T00:12:00.002-07:002012-09-29T00:12:29.279-07:00A screeching bird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>A screeching bird rests on my soft pillow<br />She sleeps a nightmare of unrest<br /><br />Onto which we have tortured, clamped, held her wings<br />It is just a wallowing bird<br />Yet we treat it so<br /><br />For where do the pain and hurt go<br />Of pasts long forgotten<br /><br />Where can the loved ones go?<br />If the hells that are long lost<br />If not in a yawning chasm<br />Remember me once more o beloved<br /><br />When I kiss you goodbye<br />I wave to you in a fading twilight<br />That gathers me in its rambunctious folds<br /><br />Move into a Light that envelopes you<br />For only that Light can be seen that is of a further nature<br /><br />If that bird does get freed, then allow it to be a free spirit<br />Into yonder it flies, into yonder<br />Into a restful sleep<br /><br />It is a bird of metaphoric symbols<br />Of life, lost and found so<br /><br />Forgive it its follies<br />For it is now at rest<br />In a twilight that only some can see<br /><br />For we have yet to accomplish the morrow<br />Of many, many lives<br /><br />Of many sins, of many deeds untold<br /><br />Let there be no more screeching of the birds, of tempests forgotten<br />Of sorrows that now lie still<br /><br />Goodbye O friend of many years<br />As you rest in a deep slumber<br /><br />We will meet in the yonder of forgotten pasts<br />Of things left unsaid</em></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-49965486817811323122012-09-29T00:08:00.002-07:002012-09-29T00:08:26.939-07:00The Liliting Moon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The leaves smother the lilting moon<br />
As my wandering eye gazes upon this frothy cloud<br />
I see the imperial vision of the diamante circle<br />
Slithering softly behind the mirage of the frothy cloud <br />
My yearning heart skips a beat<br />
As I imagine Him embracing me <br />
Glistening golden beads of sweat<br />
Arise from my bosom of heated flesh <br />
The moon starts working its molten magic<br />
As I surrender my moist rose with a gasp<br />
Fluttering rose petals, dewy cheeks<br />
Melting kisses, whispered love <br />
As I rise and fall in crescendo<br />
I imagine He has been here<br />
Caressing away my tears<br />
I whisper to the Moon <br />
To let him see me, heaving thus.... <br />
A voice beckons from beyond, a whispery voice...<br />
Of love that has long been buried<br />
I rise from my slumber, like a maiden forlorn<br />
I comb my wet hair, wipe my moist cheeks...<br />
I ready myself for Him<br />
And as I prepare in my rituals of love, <br />
I see a vision upon the cloudy light<br />
It is Him, he has come, a thundering man of might.. <br />
I now lay back with a benign smile, <br />
Awaiting his footsteps, tenderly so... <br />
I feel his vicious might, as we embrace in the eternal folds of time<br />
I blush, for it is Him and not just a supreme manifest<br />
He carries me away into the Shaft, the Eternal Light<br />
Where we become one, never to part... <br />
The Moon once more slithers from behind the Invisible Veil<br />
I blush, yet there is no one besides me<br />
The folds are tender, as moist as rose<br />
Yet there is no one, no one besides me<br />
Just a dusty, dry rose.....</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-22311016420553335882012-09-28T23:45:00.003-07:002012-09-28T23:46:07.592-07:00The Void<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The delicate weft of the green....<br />
The bird rising in the stormy tempestuous of the green glass...<br />
And at the euphoric tempestuous green glass<br />
Rambling an infinitive flowing water....<br />
<br />
But the green, the delicate, the silky weft of the infinitive flowing water..<br />
<br />
The delicate weft of the green glass<br />
And the bird, a rising bird...in the delicate weft<br />
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In the infinitive...a bird....and a delicate green....</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-46790077617610464232012-08-22T04:46:00.007-07:002012-08-22T04:46:42.662-07:00Why did we exist?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why did we exist, in a world that never understood love?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A planet that moved in directions that we could not decide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I cry, I cry for you because you loved me and let go of me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I exist, in a void that stretches into reams of time, not knowing when it will end</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Beckoning to you, I move into a surrealistic cloud, whispering words heard long ago in a melody</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I sang, love filled paeans for you, to be unheard by many but you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whispering words of love held in floating petals of rose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a moonlit night, in a lush garden with a mystical air, I walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I walk a path softly, whispering to you to come to me and hold me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a dream that we are weaving</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Heavy with promise...whispering, swirling, weaving songs of sand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clutched in my bosom is a rose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That wilts with my warmth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A rose dyed with the ink of crying blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which weeps for me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sweltering, in a heat that is not hell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I live, whispering odes of love, hoping that you hear me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Moving shafts of light pierce my vision</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When you enter my world</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I cannot see you because I am still swirling in a dream </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where we existed beyond magical spells</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cast over me, spells that keep me entrapped with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I whisper, a soft dream of feathery angels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nightingales wallow in pity for my aching heart that has not sung for centuries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I still exist, in a warp that I call time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am soft and silken, kept beautiful and lovely only for a magical moment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then I move on, swirling in my fantastic world that I have created</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Full of magic, promise, burgeoning and ripe fruit</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spilling over with honey and nectar</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I step in a swan like walk</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Knowing that you would watch me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Caressed by your watchful eyes</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the dream unfolds, we see a striking vision of spellbinding lights</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As we see her, the picture unfolds...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She moves on, with loving dreams</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We all see her, just a woman, but with a synergy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She is a dream that we envy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A dream kept pure for the one who would love only</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We let her live in a magical fantasy world</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kept soft as a dusky rose</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fragrant with the scent of a dream, of promising magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of beauty that few can surpass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She knows, that it is he who will love her only</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For she is a promise of lush ripe fruit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kept beautiful just for him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She lives, captive in a night</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-50105509858324943472012-08-22T04:46:00.004-07:002012-08-22T04:46:12.130-07:00Where is the sky?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where is the sky?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That submerges me with rain when I need some solace...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What are the clouds there for if not for cocooning me in my achingness?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who are we if not beings made just for love?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a world that races by, I stop and tell the passerby</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To sense what I feel, in painful agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is just...it is just a living fantasy when we love...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For without it, we cease to exist</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Walk with me my silent lover</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hold my hand when I fall into depths of whirling cries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tear me apart, into shattering pieces</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rush me into searing hollows, of volcanic lust</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of lust that cannot be anything but....</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is love that drives me insane for you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Insane and screaming in agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I awaken, rushing to meet you in my awakening fire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of flames that should not be doused for then....</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then I become a dervish of wantonness</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I become a mad screaming half crazed bitch</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who has heat all over her, written in searing hot irons that burn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mad am I, when you plunge into me, darkness, light and much much more</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I enjoy this passion that has driven me to wilderness for years to come</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will be now a stark naked woman, just for you</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For it is you that I see, only you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When my passion culminates and a seed is born</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You stir into me fire, molten....volcanic</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fire that leaves ashes of brimming lust</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we created our child, she became this Neanderthal being</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That walked this earth for time to come</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In her stopping stance, I see a world that she carries on her heaving shoulders</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her bosom has been created for a fierce warrior just to love, in a barren land</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In our wanton lust, we forgot to douse our fire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So when we create this being, she becomes this objectified lush</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who walks this earth in a prowl of desire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A being that will destroy all sanity, remove control from the men</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who is this monstress we created?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We created a being that came from two bodies, two minds, two hearts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet in our passion, we forgot to think...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We forgot that we were creating</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So today when we have a being that is only on a prowl of lust</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We cannot blame any but ourselves</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is done, a deed that we cannot take back</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So next time, in our lustful agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We must remember when creating</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To think, to think that the being that culminates from our seed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Has only us responsible for his descent to our earth</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We must remember that a love that we have should be the only thing that we can think of</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And to be pure when creating, to give our seed a thought</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Remember to walk a cloud of love</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For it is love because of which we exist</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only love.....only love.....only love</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7648827710377132281.post-57959312479025239762012-08-22T04:46:00.001-07:002012-08-22T04:47:14.949-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where is the sky?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That submerges me with rain when I need some solace...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What are the clouds there for if not for cocooning me in my achingness?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who are we if not beings made just for love?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a world that races by, I stop and tell the passerby</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To sense what I feel, in painful agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is just...it is just a living fantasy when we love...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For without it, we cease to exist</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Walk with me my silent lover</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hold my hand when I fall into depths of whirling cries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tear me apart, into shattering pieces</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rush me into searing hollows, of volcanic lust</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of lust that cannot be anything but....</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is love that drives me insane for you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Insane and screaming in agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I awaken, rushing to meet you in my awakening fire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of flames that should not be doused for then....</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then I become a dervish of wantonness</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I become a mad screaming half crazed bitch</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who has heat all over her, written in searing hot irons that burn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mad am I, when you plunge into me, darkness, light and much much more</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I enjoy this passion that has driven me to wilderness for years to come</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will be now a stark naked woman, just for you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For it is you that I see, only you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When my passion culminates and a seed is born</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You stir into me fire, molten....volcanic</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fire that leaves ashes of brimming lust</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we created our child, she became this Neanderthal being</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That walked this earth for time to come</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In her stopping stance, I see a world that she carries on her heaving shoulders</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her bosom has been created for a fierce warrior just to love, in a barren land</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In our wanton lust, we forgot to douse our fire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So when we create this being, she becomes this objectified lush</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who walks this earth in a prowl of desire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A being that will destroy all sanity, remove control from the men</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who is this monstress we created?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We created a being that came from two bodies, two minds, two hearts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet in our passion, we forgot to think...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We forgot that we were creating</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So today when we have a being that is only on a prowl of lust</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We cannot blame any but ourselves</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is done, a deed that we cannot take back</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So next time, in our lustful agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We must remember when creating</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To think, to think that the being that culminates from our seed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Has only us responsible for his descent to our earth</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We must remember that a love that we have should be the only thing that we can think of</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And to be pure when creating, to give our seed a thought</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Remember to walk a cloud of love</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For it is love because of which we exist</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only love.....only love.....only love</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /></div>
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