Friday, March 6, 2009

Raging Ragas




Thursday s NXG - a supplement of the Hindu carried a small piece I wrote. A version of this article appears below:

Raging Ragas

Body surfacing is a rock concert practice. But, so what if that’s observed during “Uyire, Uyire” Hariharan’s widely speculated, predominantly melodious (or so it was promised) concert. The place to be was the grounds of CEG where shall I say things were just a bit RAGING? With the crowd running into thousands of people, most of who fall in the “raging” hormones group, rancid chanting of “We want Kuthu” isn’t something unexpected, is it? And what could be better than the ghazal singer complying with this request. Well, in a live concert audience own the show, don’t they? With the bespectacled singer crooning out melodies with an enthusiasm that would put my neighbour Rohit (a three year old kid who talks non-stop about Power Rangers-Jungle fury) to incomparable shame, the experienced singer had the audience dancing to his tunes. What was a soul stirring Nenjukul Peidhidum Mamazhai became an arduous listening exercise with the crowd deciding to chant every word of the hit number. I enjoy listening to Hariharan and disappoint he didn’t! With the near perfect Krishna Nee Begane, he won me - a passive listener who was messaging a friend tempting me with the prospect of getting to the front VIP rows where things are normal to say the least- back. It was two hours of freaking fun. A day that gets marked in college life as non-ephemeral.

18 comments:

  1. I was there I was there!!!!!

    :D

    But the concert was a disappointment!
    :(

    And hey congrats on getting published. Its tough getting published by The Hindu you know. They really look for quality.
    Congrats again! :)

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  2. And hey! I added you on gtalk with my real name :)

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  3. u were there? Are u a cegian? I guess not right?So were u there with Bharat?
    Concert.....yup big time flop.I dint enjoy it much but i guess hanging out with friends was just worth it! :)
    Thank you! The Hindu does publish only credible stuff but they edited way too much or i was probably way too critical( rather truthful, :P)
    About gtalk Thanks for letting me know because i dint know who had sent. And also thanks for sending one! :)

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  4. I accompanied a friend of mine who studies in your college. Yes The Hindu does edit what we send. Sometimes a whole column is edited and published as 'letters to the editor' :)

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  5. Bharat in the sense Baradwaj? Yeah I was with him :)

    You know him?

    :O

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  6. of course i do! and he was the friend who asked you to publish the stuff about prove or disprove.

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  8. @Anonymous
    Thank you so much!
    But may I know who you are?

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  17. CAN u tell me what your guess was?

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  18. sorry.all the best.

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