"With the changing milieu, did it never occur to Shobha to present contemporary issues? “This contemporary bandwagon is a Western concept; for the West, there is no mythology, no past to fall back upon therefore they consider it a dead sequence. Therein lies the difference in thought. To me the past is the bedrock of the future on which the present lies. Our mythology is an everlasting well (wealth) from which you keep drawing the life force of water and it never gets depleted.”
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 033556.ece
The move to secularise CM will be to cut off its feed.
Write-up on Shobha Deepak Singh
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ramamatya
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Who is Shobha Deepak Singh
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varsha
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Since I know kvc wont take offense , here is an attempt at humor
ramamantras post reminded me of a story of graffitis on successive days on the same wall
day 1 God is Time
Signed by Bertrand Russel
day 2 some one had scribbled underneath
Time is God ....
Signed by Einstein
day 3 Following was added
Come Sunday to my church , I will show you who is God ...
Signed by Billy Graham
After a few days came the last one
Who is Billy Graham ?
Signed by God
ramamantras post reminded me of a story of graffitis on successive days on the same wall
day 1 God is Time
Signed by Bertrand Russel
day 2 some one had scribbled underneath
Time is God ....
Signed by Einstein
day 3 Following was added
Come Sunday to my church , I will show you who is God ...
Signed by Billy Graham
After a few days came the last one
Who is Billy Graham ?
Signed by God
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advaitin
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Re: Write-up on Shobha Deepak Singh
Varsha Sir - exquisite 
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shankarank
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Yeah - I agree with Einstein - works for me!
Well he should have said Time is Music!
Well he should have said Time is Music!
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kvchellappa
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On time, from 'Nine Basic Arts' by Paul Weiss (I do not know who Paul Weiss is, I go by the ideas if they appeal to me, and do not bother about the person himself):
Pl bear with me, it is long and abstruse).
"The time that concerns science is distinct from that known in perception. Scientific time is totally sundered from all sensuous content, as both Galileo and Descartes made abundantly clear. Following their lead it is today described as a set of world lines, a structure of mathematically ordered, law-connected “dates” or numbers. Among contemporary philosophers, Donald Williams seems almost alone in his awareness that there is no passage in it. His message was missed because he spoke as though scientific time were the time of experience or existence. Scientific time is a time in which nothing acts, nothing happens, no thing in fact exists. Like perceptual time, it is real time under a distinctive limiting condition.
Neither the whole nor the parts of scientific time are in a temporal relation to us, or to the things with which we interact. Its present is just the boundary between two unlimited arrays of numbers, one with positive, the other with negative signs. One should not, strictly speaking, say of it that it embraces a past or a future, and one cannot therefore, strictly speaking, say of it that it contains a present, if by present, one means something at once extended, perceivable and encounterable. The dates in scientific time are merely numbers. Putting plus and minus signs before those numbers does not make them into future and past times joined by a present."
"Perceived time, scientific time, eventful time, and the time of evaluations differ markedly. And all of them are distinct from daily common- sense time, as well as from the time characteristic of nature. Daily time is these different times inchoately together and qualified by social condition. The time of nature is these times intelligibly together and then as outside all social conditioning. Both common- sense and natural time are qualitative, formal, transitional, and value laden. Their component times divide these characters amongst themselves."
"To learn what existence is we must either speculate or create. If we do the former, we will know something of its nature, but will not grasp its texture or be aware of its import for us. We turn to art to know about a reality more coherent than common sense, more concrete than what can be caught in perception, science, action or evaluation, richer and more fundamental than known nature, and more directly and emotionally felt than is possible in philosophy. Each work of art is a creation which, because it makes use of the existence in and about ourselves, enables us not only to reproduce the texture of a real space, time, or dynamics , but to portray it in significant, sensuous terms."
Pl bear with me, it is long and abstruse).
"The time that concerns science is distinct from that known in perception. Scientific time is totally sundered from all sensuous content, as both Galileo and Descartes made abundantly clear. Following their lead it is today described as a set of world lines, a structure of mathematically ordered, law-connected “dates” or numbers. Among contemporary philosophers, Donald Williams seems almost alone in his awareness that there is no passage in it. His message was missed because he spoke as though scientific time were the time of experience or existence. Scientific time is a time in which nothing acts, nothing happens, no thing in fact exists. Like perceptual time, it is real time under a distinctive limiting condition.
Neither the whole nor the parts of scientific time are in a temporal relation to us, or to the things with which we interact. Its present is just the boundary between two unlimited arrays of numbers, one with positive, the other with negative signs. One should not, strictly speaking, say of it that it embraces a past or a future, and one cannot therefore, strictly speaking, say of it that it contains a present, if by present, one means something at once extended, perceivable and encounterable. The dates in scientific time are merely numbers. Putting plus and minus signs before those numbers does not make them into future and past times joined by a present."
"Perceived time, scientific time, eventful time, and the time of evaluations differ markedly. And all of them are distinct from daily common- sense time, as well as from the time characteristic of nature. Daily time is these different times inchoately together and qualified by social condition. The time of nature is these times intelligibly together and then as outside all social conditioning. Both common- sense and natural time are qualitative, formal, transitional, and value laden. Their component times divide these characters amongst themselves."
"To learn what existence is we must either speculate or create. If we do the former, we will know something of its nature, but will not grasp its texture or be aware of its import for us. We turn to art to know about a reality more coherent than common sense, more concrete than what can be caught in perception, science, action or evaluation, richer and more fundamental than known nature, and more directly and emotionally felt than is possible in philosophy. Each work of art is a creation which, because it makes use of the existence in and about ourselves, enables us not only to reproduce the texture of a real space, time, or dynamics , but to portray it in significant, sensuous terms."
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Rsachi
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To add to the joy of this thread, I share two links:
http://youtu.be/bIkLGWUecEg
https://g.co/kgs/2PwWBs
The DCM group of Delhi (Shriram, Charatram, Bharatram etc) founded a famous art institute before most of us were born. For a LOOONG time, in an unbroken tradition, they present Ramayana dance drama in an outdoor theatre during every Navaratri season. They have the highest traditions of dance, music, sets, actors, and dancers. The lady from the family, Shobha Deepak Singh, has helmed this for a long time now. I cannot describe my joy witnessing this production several times since 70s. Please watch the video and see for yourselves.
Sometimes we stumble upon something good. Many things good, like here. Like many people constantly discover MSS, Ravishankar,... RK Narayan writes in his book, Waiting for the Mahatma, how the protagonist is rudely shocked when he discovers Shakespeare in the college library.
http://youtu.be/bIkLGWUecEg
https://g.co/kgs/2PwWBs
The DCM group of Delhi (Shriram, Charatram, Bharatram etc) founded a famous art institute before most of us were born. For a LOOONG time, in an unbroken tradition, they present Ramayana dance drama in an outdoor theatre during every Navaratri season. They have the highest traditions of dance, music, sets, actors, and dancers. The lady from the family, Shobha Deepak Singh, has helmed this for a long time now. I cannot describe my joy witnessing this production several times since 70s. Please watch the video and see for yourselves.
Sometimes we stumble upon something good. Many things good, like here. Like many people constantly discover MSS, Ravishankar,... RK Narayan writes in his book, Waiting for the Mahatma, how the protagonist is rudely shocked when he discovers Shakespeare in the college library.