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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: 2006-04-02
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Thursday, April 06, 2006. The English Hindi Film Industry in India. The Filmfare Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. No, I am not hallucinating, just doing a bit of " I-told-you-so." They should have had the Filmfare Awards function in the Kodak theatre instead of that boring old Bandra-Kurla Complex. I told you so. So, who did I tell? More importantly, did anyone ask me? The Filmfare Awards organizing committee? Nope Sanjay Leela Bhansali? They have a film awards function in Cannanore? Is this tha...
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: The Tortoise and Yoga
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Saturday, June 20, 2015. The Tortoise and Yoga. Last Saturday, my yogacharya started another branch of our yogashala and he asked me to speak at the inauguration about my experiences as a yoga student. Besides, a little pain is good, he’ll say, because learning to endure pain helps you build a strong will. (I remember when he taught me Upavishta Kona Asana. I was splat and spread out on the floor like a swatted mosquito and he asked, “What hurts? And what are these lessons? And the big deal about patienc...
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: Gubbachi - The Fall of a Sparrow
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Thursday, March 24, 2011. Gubbachi - The Fall of a Sparrow. This happens so often, doesn’t it? Sparrows were always welcome in homes because they were considered a good omen, the Brahmins amongst birds! Alas, not anymore. Now, more likely than not, like that lady on the bus that you don’t see anymore, you try and remember the last time you saw a sparrow and wonder when and how they disappeared. Sadder still, ask a child or a teenager and they are likely to say, “Sparrow? According to the IUCN Red List of...
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: 2006-06-18
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006. There are many sides to the great Kishore Kumar that we never see and because we miss so much of him, especialy the achingly sweet composer, the superbly sensitive poet, the . This is that side of him in a song that he both wrote and composed for an unreleased film called Neela Asaman. Akela hoon main is jahan mein. Na manzil koi, na saathi koi. Jane kya yeh nila aasama. Kya khabar, kya pata. Jaa raha hoon mein kahan. Meri raat ka ek saathi. Yehi chand ka caravan. On the yoga mat.
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: No questions asked
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. There is an empty house opposite ours. Nobody has lived there for years now. The only reason why it hasn't fallen to disrepair is because a relative of the owner comes and looks in once in a while. There are three trees there. One inside the house and two outside. The one inside is a red hibiscus. The two outside are parijata. Nobody looks after them. And nobody knows why. The three trees survive. Not only survive but flower. Not only flower, but flower. And pluck the flowers.
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: Hasi Aunty and her Sindhi kadi
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Friday, April 11, 2014. Hasi Aunty and her Sindhi kadi. For the world, she was my landlady and I was her paying guest, living for many years in one of the two little but very clean and airy rooms of her flat in Khar, Mumbai. For me, though, she was my Hasi Aunty. (And if truth be told, we shared the flat, she allowing me access to every part of it with typical generosity). But if you looked at her life, there was very little that Hasi Aunty to laugh about. She must have been about 56 years old then. ...
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: The strange tale of four triangles, a bit of string and a navel
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Thursday, September 21, 2006. The strange tale of four triangles, a bit of string and a navel. So what was all the fuss about four little triangles of cloth, totaling up to about as much fabric as it takes to make a saree blouse? Well, believe it or not, in Hollywood, it was about the matter of exposing the navel, an act that apparently amounted to such a severe form of indecent exposure that it was banned from Hollywood films! Nope Too much bosom? In the land of the Janes Russell and Mansfield? Interest...
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: The Prince of Paudanapura.... Gomateshwara
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. The Prince of Paudanapura. Gomateshwara. From which Karkala got its name.) Where the Lord Bahubali stood a majestic 42 feet high, carved out of the same black granite as the hill. In the same patient, impassive serenity in which he had stood for the past 470 years, towering over the lush, emerald, coastal countryside that lay around his feet like some auspicious green offering…. It was the 8. Strangely enough, I didn’t. 8221; desperate expression on our faces. Next, the abhis...
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Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs: Hunting for a bride, finding a chutney powder
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Friday, December 26, 2014. Hunting for a bride, finding a chutney powder. My dad was her eldest son and my grandmother's favourite child. So naturally, the hunt for a bride for him was a long drawn out affair which lasted a long time and my paternal grandmother, with an attendant retinue of aunts, scoured pretty much the length and breadth of Karnataka for the "perfect girl". A massive clan of at least 23,000 species that include the. Marigold, sunflower, various daisies. Makes it a native of Africa; Eth...
