What if ...TMK were in charge of the Canteen!?

[ganesh_mourthy]

I am surprised you don't know your townsmen posting on Rasikas.org! Ponbhairavi and Pratyaksham Bala, our two valuable members!

I am afraid so ! If only our lapel pin happenned....... I could be running into them every other day! I think we should revive that Lapel Talk already now for 2015.

[rshankar]

G_M: Sri Rajagopaliyer and Sri PB are some of the life forces behind Bhairavi - in fact, the handle Ponbhairavi (for Sri Rajagopaliyer) I think stands for Pondicherry Bhairavi - So, I am sure they attend all the Bhairavi concerts. Were you able to attend the concert of (our very own) Aishu's at Bhairavi earlier?

[ganesh_mourthy]

rshankar,

I sure know the faces but not the names behind Bhairavi and the name rings bell though. With the poor patronage in Pondicherry , it was a struggle to arrange a concert every month and they are unswerving in it.

I was born and raised in Pdy but left years ago to come back only a few month back . Not a single face that I have seen before. S.Radhakrishnan has lamented that Industrial Revolution scattered people robbing off the joy of living closely with your relatives and family in a small community. Now Industrial Revolution has actually peaked out I think.

Need to reunite with Bhairavi.

But , the city is not the same old, let alone the time when Bharathiar lived. He would have quietly slipped away , to get ensconced elsewhere but not with the French to escape English.
Development is good. But it is fast food , boutiques, restaurants, cafes, takeaways, pizzas and what not. Now I feel like I am living in ranganathan street. The hustle and bustle I mean.

[arasi]

Nice to hear more of the Pdy stories...
TMK in this thread has become TiNNai MahA KUTTam...

[ganesh_mourthy]

There used to be a thinnai " Rasikas Lounge". when the thinnais gave way way to office rooms , store rooms, parking front and the modern life despised the actual destressing place , the living space and sometimes the workplace had to become the thinnai. Thinnais used to be the backstage of powerful state decisions.

[vasanthakokilam]

If Thinnai Maha KUTTam was in charge of the Canteen! That fits well too, so we do not feel too guilty for taking the thread off the rails.

GM, good imagery, I fared much better there than in real life! No glasses still, though I have a feeling that may change soon.

Talking of 'naDaiyum thaLarndu', read Sanjay's blog on his recent milestone on his strength training program. Quite impressive. I saw a tweet from his trainer about this milestone and I jokingly challenged them 'I don't believe it, show me the video evidence' and the trainer tweeted a link to a face book video of Sanjay doing a dead lift of 100KG!

You can read about his fitness journey and that video of that lift in his blog: http://sanjaysub.blogspot.com/2015/01/f ... urney.html

[mahavishnu]

VK: Thanks for that link. I am very impressed with Sanjay's progress as he reviews it in his blog.

[arasi]

Kokilam, Mahavishnu,
Canteen and thiNNai somehow snuck in--but things about another artiste? Mmm...We need to take these posts to Sanjay's concert post, before TMK or his fans take offense!

[ganesh_mourthy]

good to see that. So that progressed with his progress in Music as well , complementing each other. Good health , sound mind, good singing. Bravo Sanjay. Should take a leaf out of you. In fact , many leaves.

[ganesh_mourthy]

No Arasi No. The title " If TMK were ...." per se is as good to invite all these thinnai talk through an open invitation. No surreptitious entry at all.

Of course, the genuine Sanjay talk and his milestones need to be moved. I agree.

[mahavishnu]

TMK, from what I gather, is no slouch either in the fitness department.

[ganesh_mourthy]

On seeing Sanjay fit, I feel that it is his personal achievement and time management. TMK may be good at something else .. painting.. or swimming .. we never know or may be even cooking.

If a person is busy and famous and does the house keeping and perfect in striking a balance , home and profession, what can be better than that.

We took a glimpse of Sanjay's facet, but we don't know of others. I thnk this thread now is staggering . I am done here.

[kvchellappa]

Nice that the discussion has veered back to cooking from canteen. Rsachi's imagination maybe inspired!

[vasanthakokilam]

The NRI idiots love his antics. Please take him out of India and keep him wherever you live.
.....Around February, he will be singing to a largely empty hall at Asthika Samajam, Alwarpet.

Given the collective Idiocy of NRIs is at stake I thought I will do a status check now that it is end of March. How did TMK fare post season?

[Rsachi]

Mahavishnu, these are days of reverse osmosis. And wannabe NRIs. And spring is here (bumps up the craziness as you well know). So all factors loaded in favour of the maestro wherever he is.

[harimau]

The NRI idiots love his antics. Please take him out of India and keep him wherever you live.
.....Around February, he will be singing to a largely empty hall at Asthika Samajam, Alwarpet.

Given the collective Idiocy of NRIs is at stake I thought I will do a status check now that it is end of March. How did TMK fare post season?

I didn't keep track of his concert engagements.

Somewhere in The Hindu I read that he gave a performance on OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road) for the techies (code monkeys) employed in the buildings that line the road -- it probably was in some building rather than on the road itself.

Then there was this concert at Pozhichalur, Tambaram or some such place located back of the beyond.

Yesterday he is supposed to have sung to capacity crowds at Narada Gana Sabha for a memorial to Sri R Krishnaswamy. It was not announced in the newspapers but all members of the Sabha were notified by mail so they and several artists (those who are milking the local concert circuit till the last minute before they fly off to Cleveland for the Great Annual Tamasha as well as those who are not going to Cleveland) showed up in droves. The crowds, though, may have melted by 8:30 pm because the collective gurgling of stomachs would have drowned out any music and people would have hit the road to home for dinner.

I believe he is performing at Hamsadhwani, Adyar soon but I can't be bothered to travel that far from Alwarpet. Also, the elderly crowd there would use the opportunity to listen to him rather than move their rear ends to better (read that as mosquito-free, air conditioned) auditoria in Mylapore. I heard the Duelling Abhangists performed there to capacity crowds to which Daddy-O contributed by bringing a bus load of friends and relatives, a trick he had performed earlier during the Margazhi Maha Utsavam of Jaya-TV in December 2014.

All in all, I will have to wait a while before I hear him at Asthika Samajam, Alwarpet to report on crowd statistics.

PS. Highly-rated artists are restricting the number of performances so that crowds will show up for the few opportunities they get to hear their favourite musicians.

[ganesh_mourthy]

Daddy O?

[arasi]

The sisters', I presume...

Harimau,
Surely, they are not restricting the concerts to say, Bombay Jayshri's count?

[ganesh_mourthy]

Arasi

how did you understand Daddy O as sisters.?

Cryptography? code breaking? code writers and code breakers are not well received in this thread.

[Nick H]

You missed arasi's apostrophe: sisters'

It is very small and hard to spot, but it is there: the daddy[-O] of the sisters

[ganesh_mourthy]

now I understand the importance of apostrophe.

Cheers Nick.

[harimau]

Arasi

how did you understand Daddy O as sisters.?

The Duelling Abhangists' Dad. By a happy coincidence, the acronym becomes DAD!

PS. How many other daddies are hanging around for their grown-up children's concerts? I can think of Sri K S Rangachary who shadows the Mango Sisters to their concerts and plays the kanjira for them. Can't immediately think of anyone else.

[kvchellappa]

If I were the father of such children, I would have been present. Nothing is greater joy than seeing our children do honourably well. The kurals on good parentage and good progeny suggest that it is a cultural trait that we may be proud of.

[Nick H]

At some of the Season concerts there might be no audience if it were not for mums, dads and other family members

[arasi]

...and a few mothers pleading with you to stay on for their child's music as you exit!

It's a tough business and we have to appreciate appA ammAs who support their kids

[Nick H]

It's amazing how many friends I've made that way

[kvchellappa]

Here is a concert of TMK posted on 29th May. It must be old as it conforms to the discredited paddhati and not a musical offering. I do not find it any less creative or aesthetic than the 'freelance' ones or the evolved ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnxsSjxu5uk

[SrinathK]

No TMK from this december on :

https://www.facebook.com/tmkrishna

[Rsachi]

I am sure the vast legion of his fans will sorely miss this extraordinary, gifted, creative genius TMK. I may disagree with his activist activities but he is right up there for me in his music.
Best wishes to TMK in his musical journey!

[ramamantra]

No TMK from this december on

Do I hear Sabha secretaries throwing a grand party ...

[pattamaa]

not sure whatever is the factor for taking this decision. Few years back, he choose not to sing in december in a particular year, saying that he want to listen to more concerts... Hope he thought through before announcing... He can always sing on January 1st technically !!

Hope he will write more about music in December to compensate for his music !

[arasi]

We all have the right to follow what our inner voice prompts (so long as it does not hurt those who live around us). Just because one is an artiste who appears in the public arena, it does not mean that the listeners have a say in his decisions and in the way he takes different steps as he progresses in life. Best wishes to TMK on his journey...

On a practical level, as Pattamma points out, yes, the year he was taking time off to listen to other musicians (something most others can't afford to) was commendable. TMK nonetheless gave concerts from the first of January. Is he going to do that this year or--as the history of politics in TN (and other states) tell us, is another artiste going to take the political path?

[pattamaa]

political path... i don't think so, as he is not performing only in december...

May be, he is planning to release yet another movie in december to compensate to his rasikas... not a bad idea, isn't it ?

[VK RAMAN]

If TMK were incharge of the canteen, he will quit singing for Chennai December concerts.