Category: Ballads
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Thoku Emong — a festival of gratitude.
Most folk festivals are about gratitude, and thanks giving. So is the Lothas Naga festival of Thoku Emong. Thoku means feast, and Emong is halt. The festival is celebrated by the Naga Lothas tribe in the first week of November. The government however has currently declared 6th– 7th of November as the festival days though…
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Baba Budan Saheb the Patron Saint of Cafficionado
Marie Von Tropp finds it easy to say let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start with. Obviously she does not know, coffee is the right place to start with. With the wafting fragrance of coffee, the day begins and as the coffee falls into the stomach it triggers a commotions.…
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Pondering Over yayati.
Storytellers and psychologists have explored the rivalry of a child with the same sex parent. In the Indian context we have some very interesting examples Dr.Devdutt Pattnaik likes to call it a reverse Oedipus complex where the father makes a demand of the son. Somehow there are some interesting patterns here. Let us look at…
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Journey With Girish Karnad.
Purvaranga design for Hayavadhana With Girish Karnad passing away, one more pillar of the “Kattuvevu naavu hosa naad ondanu” the builders of a new nation follows. It was the sets of Utsav at Halsnaadu, it was a week of shooting. My friends and I from the popular theatre group were taken on as fillers. I…
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M.G.Road…Mohandas or Mahatma
I am just back from lucknow, but kind of confused the routine has not yet set in. My sister’s grandson curls up on to my knee. “Gustavo” he said pointing at the image of a frail man, clad in an above knee dhoti the upper cloth animatedly fluttering and of course the trademark horn rim…
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A Reason for Treason.
The morning sounds of a typical southern house was on. Mallamma making coffee, her husband who in a rural set up would have been called “Aiyaa’ (these days it was “Saar ” or “Sirji” depending on where he was stationed, or where his children were stationed) going through “The Hindu”. Now Mallamma was very diligent…
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