Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas Edison
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Is "writing" an art ?
As I was driving the turnpike this really wet, not so Aprily morning, getting into the final week of the Spring Semester, I could not but recall the mayhem in the class last Wednesday. When the professor of my marketing class said that next week we will have to “write” a case analysis as a part of the final exams, no body really gave it much attentions – rather than the usual “oh ! Sxxx – I thought we did the paper and she said she was impressed by all the work – why do we need to have another exam …” It was not until she said “ I will get you the paper books and make sure you have good pens” that the diverse islands of chatter converged to the same …. “Write an exam? - 2 hours??...Can we not bring our laptops and type it in?
That is so true …I think writing has now literally become an art. As the laptops become ubiquitous, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is starting to show another obvious example. My thoughts don’t start flowing until I have my hands on the keyboard. I even take notes in class on my laptop. It is not that I do not like “writing” by hand. In fact, I still buy fountain pens and go looking for ink (it is so hard to get bottles of fountain pen ink in the States), but that is purely for scribbling notes and doodling while on endless conference calls. If I have to do some serious creative “writing”, I need my laptop.. that is how I write…
I wonder if kids need to learn to “write” or rather handwrite anymore? All you need to do is recognize the alphabets, isn’t it ? or maybe I am taking it too far …
That is so true …I think writing has now literally become an art. As the laptops become ubiquitous, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is starting to show another obvious example. My thoughts don’t start flowing until I have my hands on the keyboard. I even take notes in class on my laptop. It is not that I do not like “writing” by hand. In fact, I still buy fountain pens and go looking for ink (it is so hard to get bottles of fountain pen ink in the States), but that is purely for scribbling notes and doodling while on endless conference calls. If I have to do some serious creative “writing”, I need my laptop.. that is how I write…
I wonder if kids need to learn to “write” or rather handwrite anymore? All you need to do is recognize the alphabets, isn’t it ? or maybe I am taking it too far …
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Rone de aaj humko,
Tu aankehin sujaane de.
Baahon mein lele, aur khud ko bheeg jaane de.
Hai jo seene mein qaid dariya, who choot jaayega.
Hai itna dard ke tera daaman bheeg jaayega.
The Gulzaresque style of interspersed monologues accentuated by Aamir’s sultry voice – I heard this once and knew instantly that the album would be great - It is, in fact. I haven’t heard a better Hindi soundtrack in some time. Jatin Lalit has turned out a great album – probably his best since Hum Tum.
The Fanaa soundtrack has 6 songs.
The first one “Chaand Sifarish” is a catchy number – reminds me of the Abhijeet songs form the SRK era (not that the SRK era is over or anything ..).
The second one is “Mere haath mein” – that is the one with monologues from Aamir and Kajol. The lyrics are great, the music with a Middle Eastern overtone is fabulous and Sunidhi and Sonu Nigam have done a great job rendering that number.
The folksy dancy number “Des Rangeela” is not bad either.. kind of grows on you.
The one I like best is the “Dekho na” – beautiful lyrics “Phir na hawaayein hongi itni besharam ….. Jugnoo jaisi chahat dekho jale bujhe” – but what I like best is the lower pitch of Sunidhi’s voice. She is great in that song, Sonu, of course, has his usual Deewana style. This song reminded me of the “Dekho na” from Swades. That was a great song too.
The kiddo song with limericks is something I could probably live without – it is funny and catchy, but don’t see myself playing that one on repeat…The instrumental and remix numbers are not bad either -
So after, having this album for 4 days now, I have narrowed it down to 4 tracks that I keep playing again and again –
Dekho na
Mere Haath mein
Chaand Sifarish ..
Des Rangeela
Tu aankehin sujaane de.
Baahon mein lele, aur khud ko bheeg jaane de.
Hai jo seene mein qaid dariya, who choot jaayega.
Hai itna dard ke tera daaman bheeg jaayega.
The Gulzaresque style of interspersed monologues accentuated by Aamir’s sultry voice – I heard this once and knew instantly that the album would be great - It is, in fact. I haven’t heard a better Hindi soundtrack in some time. Jatin Lalit has turned out a great album – probably his best since Hum Tum.
The Fanaa soundtrack has 6 songs.
The first one “Chaand Sifarish” is a catchy number – reminds me of the Abhijeet songs form the SRK era (not that the SRK era is over or anything ..).
The second one is “Mere haath mein” – that is the one with monologues from Aamir and Kajol. The lyrics are great, the music with a Middle Eastern overtone is fabulous and Sunidhi and Sonu Nigam have done a great job rendering that number.
The folksy dancy number “Des Rangeela” is not bad either.. kind of grows on you.
The one I like best is the “Dekho na” – beautiful lyrics “Phir na hawaayein hongi itni besharam ….. Jugnoo jaisi chahat dekho jale bujhe” – but what I like best is the lower pitch of Sunidhi’s voice. She is great in that song, Sonu, of course, has his usual Deewana style. This song reminded me of the “Dekho na” from Swades. That was a great song too.
The kiddo song with limericks is something I could probably live without – it is funny and catchy, but don’t see myself playing that one on repeat…The instrumental and remix numbers are not bad either -
So after, having this album for 4 days now, I have narrowed it down to 4 tracks that I keep playing again and again –
Dekho na
Mere Haath mein
Chaand Sifarish ..
Des Rangeela
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