Friday, January 23, 2009

Priyo Ornob-er jonyo. The Best lyrics I have ever come across

I dont know how to thank Ornob. A really great song that perfectly gave the words to what i wanted to tell myself. Even the music was something which I am fond of, it is my music, it is my lyrics, just made by someone who is the brightest light of our generation.


Sing your soul out, dear
Cheer up this breeze, without fear
Walk on the dew on the bed of grass
cheer up the breeze, without fear

While love makes its own kingdom
in a cup of tea, somewhere else
I'll guard the moon till then
in the stargrinded light

Plenty of flowers touched by all these colours,
That remind me of your eyes and all my mistakes.

So, keep singing, keep singing... keep on singing dear

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Few trivial facts

The things which I read or figured out and may be not that useful should be given proper consideration, since they might be useful for others...

1. This is what I read
'beauty is nothing
but teh start of terror we can hardly bear,
and we adore it because of the serene scorn
it could kill us with ...'

2. Punctuation and repetition of words and phrases was introduced in written form of language only to show the proper emotions more closely. Words are not important but how you say it is important.

3. In german when you describe anything past the verb comes at the last of the sentence. This is a really good strategy, it makes a person good listener and allows others to finish their sentence.

4. Tagore surprised me. Read Gora, apart from the last two pages of the novel, everything is for anyoen belonging to any philosophy. It is so abstract and so practical together. Probably true world was only depicted by Tagore in modern times (even Dostoyevsky would have agreed I guess).

5. The joourney of human being is from past to present , so a good way of learning should be going from present to past.

6. Every human being should be individualistically selfish. This will make this world the ideal one.

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8. I found a math book where in the table of conetnst they have listed 10 chapters. for chapter sic they wrote it doesnt exist. I dont know what does that mean...
9. This is the thing I came across while browsing, someone said something about poverty "
The history of poverty is filled with some really big events. Famines in Ethiopia. Floods in Bangladesh. Del Boy and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses. It's very difficult to measure precisely which of these is the most epic example of suffering. But one thing's for sure - we will come up with something that beats them all. Poverty History will be made!"

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Happy birthday to the only god I know

Be proud to be a human being, specially those of our generation, since we grew up with the god, the buddha of music, the true genius I have ever heard off. To start with let me remember the time when he first came in picture. That will be the best way to look at the ocean from a naive point of view. But when you are looking at Rahman , all of us are naive. I always give music and art as higher position than science or anyother thing. Music is the most ancient form of human expression and human understanding. With rationality irrationality , with dualism non dualism you can always associate music with it. And music is the only thing that is there in every thing in this world, not god nor science or some metaphysical entity. And if you search for the human being who has understood this infinite storage of music to some extent, your search ends at Rahman.

Rahman is a deconstructionist. He came to world music when it was going through a bad phase. Euroepan music lost its charm, american music was reducing to either loud headbanging or naked girl dancing, arabic music didnt have any innovator , african and carribean music was losing its path on only rap and indian music as usual corrupted by the north indian musical motifs. I will specially give strong importance to the Indian film music version. I can go to the extent to claim that when ARR came, the only music composer worthy of a mention was Ilaya Raja. And the other music composers in Bombay was as usual dumb to explore any other musical motifs other than the banal motif of indian dholakiya , and western (italian or russian ) style orchestra violin. There was a Bappi Lahiri, who is a disgrace on music, There was a anu malik, who had one leg on his father era and one hand in popular western music ( to copy), jatin lalit ( they did some good stuff, but nothing new).The non film music idustry in india sucked . The T-Series boom gave room to some worthless singers like kumar sanu and anuradha padowal, but at the end of the day, forget about the music quality, even the recording quality decreased considerably. Some of the elders i talked even said that the bhojpuri songs of those days sounded better than the hindi songs. Given Rahmans quest for new things he would have come and broken the old trend completely and would have given a completely new definition of music. Actually he has done that , if you consider the quality of Indian music now and before Roja. But still Roja was not a destruction of the old tradition, it was the realisation of old tradition but also creating everything new around. He gave Indian music many new dimensions , infinitely many at one stroke called Roja. I can recall the effect of Roja in Kolkata (that time Calcutta). I have few human beings to check out when music comes in question. My grandmother, my father , my brother and my cousin. My mother doesnt count since she always like something new. But my father , being grown up at in the genration of RDB and Salil Choudhury, was very skeptical about new musical forms during that time. But Rahman changed everything. I remember the strong debate I used to have with my father ( the only debate I had ever with him) , about who is better, Rahman or Burman. But his approval of Rahman being a contender of the versatility of RDB made me really happy since he ruled out the other composer Salil Choudhury. But anyway he was the one to buy me all the Rahman albums from his monthly saving. My grandmother was bowled over by Rahman, just like me, who , after all this years always feel the child like thrill when the african motif starts in dil hai chhota sa before the second antara with the base guitar bakcground.

To talk about Rahman is not a thing which I can do in my life. All these years, the only thing that didnt change in India is Rahmans quest for change and experimentation. The Rahman of Roja is still young, younger than any Indian , younger than any human being. Be his latest works with leit Motif in RDB, Boys, Jane tu ya Jane na, Slum Dog Millionaire, or his jazzy work of Sathiya , or Hindustani Motif Bose the forgotten hero or synthetic music Yuva. In this world there is only one religion and that is music and Rahman is our God. Happy Birthday ARR.

Monday, December 29, 2008

jibondorshon

ek mane shunno theke kichuta holeo beshi,
abar ekla mane shunnota.
ek r shunno diye to proyojoniyo shob kothai
ajkal loke likhe fele.
ek r shunno ekshathe shunne mishe jachche
etai ekta nissho jibondorshon.
tui na thakle baal, tui thakle uttal,
etao ekta jibondorshon.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Dhorashayi

balishe entho mukh,
chand-er eki osukh ?
megher rumal
ache mukh dheke.
tor bola niktimoto peyanj
kuchi , kuchoi
amar tor dutoi
plate rekhe.
tor abar mishti hashar shokh,
alto heshe korish chokh chhotto
ami shotti dhorashayi
na pai chena kono image
na pai obak kora pongti
tor chokher kaloy nijer
shadhin desh dekhe aaj shotti
ami mairi dhorashayi
bhebe ajek achi pore
jokhon adla amay eshe
tui tulbi apon kore.
ami emon dhorashayi.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

moddhobitto (middle income class)

Borofe porle gole
gaye porle jole
agun.
opomaneo hashi,
shukh porobashi, ebar
ragun.
gadhar pithe chore
chourastar more
bhashon
bhashan diye
bhule bandhobir biye
bhabun.
ai nari bari french cut dari
dami almari
ai telephone ,
packet kora baloon baloon shaptahik guptodhon,
premik mon,
bogus.
ragun ragun ragun.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Jodu babur Baganbari(the mansion of Jodu babu)

Jodu babu,
Jo-take cho korle besh moja peto aager projonmo....
ekhon oishob moja theke bonchito ...
tader lakh lakh callcenter-er kane shuhdu durbritto onushondhankari markin ingrijir shobdokosh theshe bhore diyechilo ke ba kara kono ek projonme.
Jodubabur bagan
jekhane fol ful nidenpokkhe agacha udpadonkari naam na jana ektio gacha pawa day,
ekhon shudhu morubhumir chilchitkar,
Onnotha jodu Babur Baganbari
kintu jomjomat,
ontoto ai sthir shomoye... jokhon shobkichu hoy otit kimba bhobisshot.
brotomaner chhaya ektu holeo ekta abcha chhap rekhe jay ekhane.
prokritopokkhe baritake ekta tritiyobishsho bola chole,
ekhane bhivajon ache, kintu ta mene nebar ba dur korar ongikar nai,
ekhane nari ache, tao bohu dhorshita ebong shomoyanug chinta onujayi oslil rokom shundori ba kutshit,
take bhalobashar keu nai,
ekhane purush ache , nijeder shoto bivajoner niti jabor katar moto ekhono cholche,
take bosh korar keu nai,
ekhane bidroho ache, biplob ache, kintu ta bojhar lok nai,
ekhane notun mane bhobishshot- purono mane bhogoban,
bortomaner chhaya, oi bollam na ekta olpo sholpo boyoshi meye meghe hnete gele jemon hoy,
sherokom chhap rekhe chole geche.
Jodu babur bagan bairta ekti nitantoi tritiyo bissho.