week of entertainment and hope

My mini travel week is over. I haven't seen anything though , as usual i spent my time in my respective rooms in chennai and bhubaneswar, but it was a really entertaining week . First of all being at CMI , new campus , with few of my old friends of CMI was boundlessly entertaining and then it was bhubaneswar where again the mafia entertains in her usual unpredictable way. Bhai in CMI gave us the unusual treat of his eloquence power (sadly it was after grass ). Madhukar took his photograph and he exclaimed " dont i look like katrina kaif ?". Then there were cats, few girls ( first time in CMI). Surprisingly they have discovered that CMI guys are either frustru case or total nerds. Good for them but bad for the guys there. I can really start writing lots of pathetic stories about what is going to happen in cmi in next one year. Anyway , I bought the new Rabbi Shergill album Avengi Ja Nahin in Chennai, and after my first tryst with it I fell in love with three songs of it " Karachi Valie", "tu avin bandra", "bilqis". The opening song chhalla, has this melancholic punjabi folk touch , as if anyone can identify with the song, as if the song is about them, some really soft corner is getting exposed but yet there is a cover. Rabbi comes with another great piece of lyrical work, he is the best poet of recent times for me. Nothing, even my joblessness, moves me more than Rabbi . The second song is Karachi valie, punk elements with distinct rabbi style punjabi high pitch voice, this song is supposed to be the main attraction of the album. Lyrics is simple but femininely romantic. This is where Rabbi stands out from all the lyricists of modern times of India, something like Cold Play. I guess every one will agree there is nothing and no one like Rabbi Shergill in this world. Maen Bolia is like gill de guitar like composition, it's a story of a conversation , lyrics is as usual Rabbi standard , but till now challa remains the best lyrics for me. "Avengi Ja Nahin" is like "Istehar" lyrically but more modern use of words and sequences , it has this cute chord changes at the starting , sounds like cold play comes to punjab. Now "Ballo" is Rabbi's first attempt to R& B, lyrics is strictly ok, I mean i exepect only wrolds best lyrics from Rabbi. Then comes the best lyrics of the album, with "tu avin bandra", Rabbi takes Indian commercial music to the worlds topmost place. Even Dylan would have been happy to pen down a gem like this. My favourite couplet is
" jehrhian tu dourhan viche chhadian vekhin jinna puri keetian
vekhin tu raaje nagey fired hooran pakhey lamkian."
Then comes the "Paghri Sambhal Jatta". As far as I understand , It is about the history of exploitation of every class of the lower classes. Anyway no comments about this song , apart from the fact pointed oput by bhai that the starting sounds like some pink floyd song.
Last comes bilqis (jinhe Naaz hai), let me remnind you that it is not like jugni of the last album, there is no touch of satire here or any story telling. Its just questions targetted to everyone , from few indians who gave their life fighting against corruption and government non government exploitation. I felt like standing up during this songs. I was thinking that guys with long beard can really write well, marx, tagore, rabbi.......