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The heart yearns to sing, the songs in our heart!   WOW! A fantastically musical Sunday it was today! When I got to do what I love to do - sing all day long. The singing session went on from 2 PM to 7 PM with a few breaks in between! Listening to other amazing singers - some quite renowned and some newly discovered talent in our fold within the bengali community. Truly love the bengali community 'get-togethers' for being so culturally rich!! Music comprised of Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti and many other bengali genres including songs of SD Burman and other styles, several hindi oldies and melodies galore... It was actually Bijoya Sammelani - a get-together that happens post Vijaya Dashami! Venue: Jayamahal Samiti building - the newly inaugurated 2nd Floor. When I reached, Rishi - the newly discovered and a very talented singer was performing, I joined him for a while and then several other artists. Later on I sang a Nazrul Geeti (Aruno Kanti Ke Go which I again sang f...

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Event Sponsored by H K Kejriwal Foundation Short Illustrated Graphic Novel -  Durga Puja Special from Dhonuk! 'Durga Reawakened'  Illustration: Mahan J Dutta, NID Ahmedabad & Concept, Adaptation: Shamit Bagchi, IIM Bangalore. Launch event on 10th October, Sunday at 5:30 PM  at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Kumarakrupa Road,  Bangalore  (near Golf Club/Hotel Lalit Ashok/Windsor Manor) You are invited. The chief guest will be Dr. Harkishore Kejriwal - one of India’s foremost art collectors and patron, founder HK Kejriwal foundation  and the co-founder and vice president of Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore’s most prestigious art institute.  The guest of honour will be Dr. Balasubramaniam Shekara Professor of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems  at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He handles an eclectic course on Creativity in Arts and Science in  addition to teaching Thinking paradigms. More Details...

I am reborn now, The dead past is gone; Left behind in slices of time, Of years bygone. A single root, No wait, a few of them actually, Remain stuck  still In the muck of the past. A bolus of soft vomit Of self pity; I play with it. Will have to now vomit it out The over bearing stench, getting unbearable! But it helps you, Helps you get shorn of all that is unnecessary, The filthy conformity, the make-believe, the ostentatious. So what if a little smelly a medicine? The creativity dies within, When depression sets in. Shun it! No way, it is nothing but that pain, A fertile soil for creativity's gain! Treasure it.