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Dashavatar - The Most popular artform
My Dad played the guitar. I ¤ MUSIC . My Mum is a retired Math teacher. I ¤ MATH. But what do Music and Math have in common? Probably the first lesson in Math that any of us learnt was in Kindergarten. And it went like this. “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe.” If you went to school and studied in Hindi medium after 1988, they probably taught you “Ek Do Teen”, the song from Tezaab, which catapulted Madhuri Dixit to stardom in Bollywood. And if you are a girl, you possibly learnt the steps of the dance as well. Hopefully, the boys did not learn numbers from another popular movie, Ram Lakhan, which released in 1989, which quoted “One Two ka Four, Four Two ka one.” The continuing experience of learning Math with music came with multiplication tables. I don’t think any of us could learn our tables by heart, without singing through it. “Two Ones are Two, Two Twos are Four… and so on.” So we have learnt Math with music? Let’s look at the other side. We probably heard a count of numbers “One, Two, Three, Four” before you started to sing. And for those who hated Math, the question would be, “Why do you bring the numbers to Music class. I thought all we did here was sing.” But then Julie Andrews (in the Sound of Music) and Michael Jackson told us that “Learning Music was as easy as learning ABC – and 123” (Ask a kindergartener how easy that is…they’ll possibly cry). All music has is 7 notes that go “Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti… and then repeat all over again and mix them up a bit and you have a song.” Simple, isn’t it. In Hindi it goes “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da Ni…” Ever wondered how only the second note is the same. The mix of the notes makes up a Melody or Sur. And now comes the difficult part, the game of numbers. Music has another important constituent…its called Taal or Rhythm… and it’s out to get you. While most of the time you count to four, some songs require to count to three, and they call it a Waltz. Other songs count to two, and its called a Swing. Where do all these names come from. If you ever began to learn music theory, the second thing you learn is to count (like you never knew this before). And there are new terms you have to learn – semibreve, minim, crotchet. And that’s just the beginning. Then come the quavers and semiquavers and the demisemiquavers and the hemidemisemiquavers (Did I just write a nineteen letter word?) - which is a half, quarter, one- eighth and one-sixteenth respectively (how do you count that?) Anyway the numbers in the music gives you the rhythm or more simply time. And that’s what makes music dance-able. So if you want to be a good musician, please pay good attention to the Math lessons. And if you’re good at Math, you can be a good musician – if you have strong fingers (for the piano or guitar) or lungs (to blow the wind instruments). Play on.
In indian mythology the ten incarnations of lord Vishnu is collectively known as Dashavatar. To preserve the universe from destruction Vishnu took ten different forms (Avatar) from time to time. They are : 1. Matsya (Fish) 2. Katchha (Turtle) 3. Varaha (Boar) 4. Narsimha(half man half Lion) 5. Waman (A brahman boy) 6. Purshuram 7. Rama 8. Krishna 9. Budhha 10. Kalanki In Sindhudurg Dashavatar is Most popular artform. Dance ritual dramas are held in most of the temples during festive occassions. Intresting characters in these dramas are Apsaras (Heavenly maidens) The role of women are also played by the men. There are nine original Dashavatar performing groups in sindhudurg and Walawalkar group is believed to be the the first. Credit also goes to pioneer Mr. Shymnaikji kale who introduced Dashavatar in Sindhudurg in 11TH centuary, same Dashavatar is today known as Adivere Dashavatar in which ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu are presented one after the other on the stage. A form called Aatdashavatar is also highly appriciated by the locals. It is presented in two parts. Parts onebegins with Ganeshstavan, Saraswatistavan, Brahmin priests entry and killing of sankasura (Purvarang) while while part two is a proper play and includes mythological stories. (Uttarang 0r leelantya). The first incarnations Matsya Avatar is presented to the audience in the theatre. The myth begins with Lord Brahma who is busy in penance. the demon named shanrasura siezes this opportunity to steal his Vedas & shastras ( the holy Books). Lord Vishnu who is witness to this incident then promises Bramha of bringing back his vedas. Vishnu wanders in search shankarasura and when he finds him, fierce battle takes place between them. shankarasura runs from the battlefield and hides under water in a conchshell. As Vedas remained drowned in water, if was necessary to bring them up. To retrieve them Vishnu descends into the water in the form of fish that is lower part of body like thet of fish and upper part like that of a man (A matsya Avatar) in a Bottle under the Watere Vshnu finaly defeats shakasur who surrenders and explains the motive behind stealing of vedas. That he did so with an intention to pass philosophical knowledge of Vedas from elite people to down trodden society (Bahojan Samaj) Visnu apprecieted shankarsuras courage and gave him a vow that in the tree worlds (Trailokya) before woshipping Vishnu people will worship his conchshell. Vishnu then restored the Vedas to Brahma. By Umesh Kolamkar
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The Indian pomposity We need to be loud, very loud. Whether it is weddings, religious festivals, our movies, our media, our celebrities, our politicians, we have an obliging duty to scream out loud that it is the Indian in us, and nothing more. From the Indian media coverage given to the earthquake in Nepal, you could have been forgiven to think that Indians were the only rescue teams allowed in Nepal. For the Indian-Americans making waves in politics or spelling bee competitions, we are there to let them know that they are Indians first and Americans later.
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From the ear-splitting music to the over the top grandeur at weddings or even religious festivals, there is an urgent propensity to show off even if it disturbs the sanity of the neighbourhood. We have media celebrities like Arnab Goswami who has made ‘being loud’ a cult trait of its own. There is a pomposity in the writing of the established Indian writers which defeats the intent of their otherwise, well construed and purposeful novels. The politicians do not require such grandiose introductions for they make their mark every time either through controversy or ‘foot in mouth’ remarks. Female foeticide is another matter which we unabashedly have no qualms about due to which it has become rampant and an inhuman face of our nation. Despite this and all, as a country, we have failed our people in matching their pomposity. That is why our infrastructure lags far behind that of other countries. If the recent developments in our city like the Metro take 10 years to complete, then we have a serious problem. The lack of transparency and accountability, bureaucratic delays, struggle to secure land rights, and unpredictable regulations have all contributed to this mess. The response of our government to farmer suicides across the country reeks of apathy in the sense that beyond declaring relief packages and financial assistance, they have failed to recognize the need for a review of agricultural policy to accommodate farmers’ interests.
We have some of the most beautiful tourist locales in the world, and yet because of the callous attitude of our government, lack of facilities, and the vagrants, touts, and garbage that inundate our landscape, Indian tourism is but a speck of the potential it can realize.
So why is there a lack of such pomposity in our bureaucracy when we gratify ourselves in everything else? Compare this to Singapore, a much smaller country, but whose frenzied claim to pomposity in a similar vein is in their cleanliness, or to China whose investments in gargantuan projects in the shortest time frame to modernize its infrastructure make India more muted than loud. So what would we prefer, saluting a loud culture and hailing India as we are, or provoking our administration for a progressive, advanced, cleaner, sanitized India.
Vernon D’Souza Born in the 60s, stuck in the music of the 70s, Ask me to sway, never to dance, Movies and plays, they will always be my budding pals, Michelle Pfeiffer will forever remain my sunshine gal. Creative dreamer, who’s studied a lot, knows a little, writes a bit, and talks a whole lot lesser. Love to watch cricket and Phil Mickelson when he’s on fire.