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rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 01 May 2009, 20:12

Neat!!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 01 May 2009, 20:23

Interesting twist! mAnji in your sympathetic verse sounds akin to what people make mukhAri out to be (a far 'cry' from what mukhAri really is like) and may I add, she has majesty and depth? and in my view, she is not proud!
You give yet another word I have not come across before. So, what sort of a sister is husEni?

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 01 May 2009, 20:38

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 01 May 2009, 21:18

Nice one.

At any point in history, was Manji as important as Mukhari or Bhairavi? Huseni - May be yes, but other two, I doubt.

-Ramakriya

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 01 May 2009, 21:32

very nice!!! enjoyed it.
If you didn't mention the raga you could have posted as a quiz question- who am I??

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 01 May 2009, 21:44

Suji Ram, I also felt the same way.
Good attempt srinivasrgvn.

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 01 May 2009, 22:16

Suji Ram wrote:very nice!!! enjoyed it.
If you didn't mention the raga you could have posted as a quiz question- who am I??

Srinivas, perhaps for your next one you can hide the raga mudra in the kriti. And leave it as a quiz for us to solve.
You have a niche talent indeed!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 02 May 2009, 00:07

In fact it is a ragam treated with high respect maanji

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 02 May 2009, 00:58

Chris Van Allsburg wrote it - anyway
Srinivasrgvn got it, new way...

That was an American fantasy,
hearty jumanji...

this "VAS" an 'affabrous-not easy'
all about mAnji.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 May 2009, 01:09

mAn sE, abhimAn sE
rachAyE kavitA apnI
rAgini par kavi Srini

idil mAindu pOvALO
mangai mAnji? illai
magizhndiruppALO?

With affection he called her
affabrous--
She may lack a lexicon
But knows of his affection--
So long as she knows not of
kharaharapriyA and a slew of
other maidens that he serenades...

Nick, sorry, the first two verses in hindi and tamizh are difficult to translate, so I wrote some lines in english for you. May be there are others too, but you for one read our verses...

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 02 May 2009, 03:47

Wah rE wah!
Well done!

maNipravALa mazhai pozhikiRathu
manathil maanji madhurarninaivukaL malarkiRathu
maRupaDi MgmGR maNiOSai kETkiRathu
bhairavi grAmiya kaLi naDam purikiRathu

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 02 May 2009, 04:58

Very pretty !

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 02 May 2009, 06:42

ellOrum 'mAinju mAinju' mAnjiyaippatri ezhudugirRgaL.
mAnji mAyndu pOgavillai, nenjilEyE niRkirAL

Everybody is rushing to write about mAnji
mAnji is not gone(dead) but is still in the hearts of all

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 May 2009, 06:51

grAmIya nangaiyin naDam
'magizhndEn' enum pOdu
mAindu pOgavum vENDumO?

The ode writer better claim his muse before others carry her away. Or, is he busy penning one about another damsel?

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 02 May 2009, 06:58

Nice work, Srinivas! And you've inspired our other resident poets--Arasi, CML, Punarvasu--as well, which is an added bonus! Plus a vocab lesson.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 02 May 2009, 08:09

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 02 May 2009, 12:40

I find mAnji easily distinguishable from mukhAri and huseni. Bhairavi is the only thing that stands in the way. Sometimes, I recognise a bhairavi to be a mAnji, but a short while later I realise I'd been too optimistic.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 02 May 2009, 19:58

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 02 May 2009, 23:24

srinivasrgvn

The poem was wonderful.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 02 May 2009, 23:46

srinivasrgvn wrote:The context in which I have written is that people do not make an effort to distinguish these ragas when they are singing them.

I don't think anyone will attempt a mAnji (even just a kriti with not even a short sketch preceding it) without knowing how it's different from bhairavi, mukhAri or husEni. And if they know how it's different, they'll show the difference as best as they can: they can in the sense they'll do it in the best possible manner that occurs to them in that concert.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 03 May 2009, 07:52

Thanks cienu and srikant1987!!

svkashyap · Post by **svkashyap** » 03 May 2009, 08:01

Srinivas,

Excellent poem!!! Makes a wonderful lakshana geeta type composition in English. Why don't some one tune it in maanji and sing it for the rasikas?