Khwaja Mere Khwaja

I have been listening to this song continuously since the last one week. By the way, it is a song from the recently released Jodha Akbar. It has got something that i cannot define. Something that forces me to take up music lessons. Something that awakens my inner self. Something that is so soothing. If you go deep into its lyrics, then you will know the stuff i am talking about, given that you are as sincere and as faithful as this song. AR Rehman has been known for creating such heart touching & mind numbing numbers and each time he does it, it seems like he is ever improving.

The song falls into the trance category, is magical & has been choreographed equally well. If you have seen the movie, then you would realize the importance of this song. Well, Jodha Akbar has other very beautiful songs like the Azeem-o-shan song, which i think only AR Rehman can produce in this world. I would recommend everyone to watch its video if you have not done that. Excellently choreographed again. The music of this film has an extremely important role to play to create the brand "Akbar" in the minds of the viewers. Oops is that statement too MBA'ish (or whatever you call the equivalent of software geeks in the MBA world) .

I guess this film will again go down the same path as Swades, where there was not much commercial success, but the film has a strong message. Ashutosh Gowarikar has been quite convincing as a director & should be applauded for such a grand effort. The film really takes you into that era & then when the film is over, you just want to know more about that era. Off course, the lavish lifestyle of the Emperor was the one thing most people would envy.

I would recommend everyone to at least watch this film on a big screen & get transported back to the Golden period of the Mughal Empire in India.

Flowery Love....

How often have you seen flowers in Bangalore. Beautiful glowing flowers. Full of ornate or grandiloquent expressions. I, frankly, have seen very few of them and that too in shops, rarely at homes. Or rather i have not seen too many homes in Bangalore. Either way, when i saw them at my home ( native place, a town in UP), i was surprised & felt close to nature as they say it. Really i have never developed this kind of enthusiasm to know their names (except a few famous ones). So this time i asked my mother the names of many of them. For the ones which she did not know,i asked other people. And with my Digital Camera, i took a lot of beautiful photographs.

The most fascinating of all was the Gladiolus which is extensively used in bouquets. Other varieties that blossomed this winter season were guldaudi (Chrysanthemum morifolium), Marigold, some species of Dahlia unknown ones. The flowers were at their blossomy best during afternoons when the sun shown with all its & other warmth, which gave a nice cozy feeling during the harsh winters. One flower variety used to be awake only when it got ample sunlight, all the other time, it was shriveled.

Here are some of the pictures i captured.










































A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. ~Adabella Radici

Points of Authority

Yes you must have heard these words as lyrics of one of the songs from the popular band Linkin Park.
Linkin Park is clearly one of my most favorite Bands. I do listen to a lot of its songs everyday.
Points of Authority is from the album Hybrid Theory which has a lot of popular songs like In the End, Crawling, One step closer & Papercut.
It signifies a lot of things i have been going through lately.
I have enclosed a YouTube video for this song. Although its not really a video since it contains only the song's lyrics on display.