Outpressions

Music season is full of enthusiasm and joy. It is a hectic time for musicians to hop from sabha to another for tight schedule of concerts. Rasikas oscillate between sabhas too! While one of the kind enter main hall while the other kind would jump  for meals(canteen). If you would visit a canteen during weekdays, the probability of you bumping an IT professional is quite high. If you would end up in weekends, you will be able to meet all dolled up rasikas showing off their new saree.If you have a habit of seeing one's attire first and then the face,you might probabily then realize the face to be quite familiar. It will then occur  after couple of minutes to you that he/she was the one sitting on the dais yesterday  who tried best to not let you sleep in the afternoon katcheri after a heavy meal. Sometimes rasikas doll up more than the artists that people would be misguided. Once it so occurred that a old thatha  went on to wish a rasika( who was dressed ...

It so happened that I had to travel to a concert(to enjoy listening only) by train during the Margazhi season. A familiar face ,in almost nearing 70's sat next to me. This thatha went to "ekantha nelai" closing his eyes when the train started to move. Once or twice he would extend hands, making some actions as though shooing a fly. I then observed him hearing music through wireless earphones(blue-tooth hopefully). His rasikathuva( ability to appreciate music) was mistaken to be a kunfu step or perhaps a dance step by a small kid sitting opposite. He parallelly started to sing along the music he was hearing unaware of its consequences outside( as he was still closing his eyes). Nobody dared to take a seat next to him on the other side until I got down at Mylapore. I took an auto to a sabha. It was 10:40 am by then. It was a instrumental concert which was going on. I slided quietly into a row taking the cushioned seat. Air conditioned hall, cushioned seat, ...

While I was grazing the newspaper on a hot summer, an article on beards got my eyes. Only then I realized and observed all male population in my college had beard or a mustache or any sort of a facial hair. The next day when I was supposed to be on a video call with my age old friend, I cut the call seeing a stranger's face on my monitor screen. It suddenly strike me that it was none other than him. He looked unrecognizable having a beard which he didn't have the last time we met. Poor little guy, he had to introduce himself formally after seeing my reaction to his sudden transformation. Long back ,I would mock the stupidity of the characters such as Ramachandra Murthy in film Thillu Mullu for being so dumb, not recognizing that Indran and Chandran were one and the same. Both the characters portrayed by Rajnikant had no much difference then a mustache. But it's true ,that men go unrecognizable with a beard ,once you haven't seen them for so long. Other time ,I was wa...