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Chevalier de Arts Dr. Mangalmpalli Balamurali Doctor Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna has contributed more than 400 compositions in the filed of Carnatic music. He is also credited with the conception of several new musical scales. Mahati, sumukham, trisakthi, sarvashri, omkari, janasamodini, manorama, rohini, vallabhi, lavangi, pratimadhyamavathi and sushama are some of the ragas created by him --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above desciption is of a man who is regarded as a colcossus in the world of carnatic music. There is one memorable composition that i remember, it was for a movie soundtrack and it was a jugalbandi with yesudas (another maestro). If ever one needed a piece of music to symbolise the movement of tides under a full moon that song and its undulating notes would have been the best choice. I am no expert but for a layman who always had a longing for this most purest of music forms, every composition seems to b

Sunday 27 july... Went to the krishna temple near my home; been seeking god nowadays more than ever before. As is wont to happen on a weekend morning in a temple, there were kids galore with their parents . The parents initiating their young ones into the complexities of the hindu religion, introducing them to the protocols to be followed in the temples. And as i usually tend to do, i wrapped up my daily appeals and conversations with the divine pantheon and was circambulating the temple when i saw her... luminous eyes, short cropped hair...draped in a red shiny saree, all two feet of her. yup, it isnt everyday that one gets to see a toddler draped in a saree, that too one that seems just tailormade for her. she was adorable to say the least, of course. saree pallu trailing over her shoulder onto the ground. The bottom of her saree kept getting tangled up in her shoes as she waddled along behind her granny. Well its sights like this that make me get up early on a sunday.Its true when t

music, art and writing, these emanate from the heart of a person. The brain doesnt seem to have much to play in creating these forms of self expression. These forms of artistic expression are what i believe an extract of the expriences that we go through in our years on this planet among the people we live with. All that we have been taught, learnt, seen, read, imbibed from the world around us, come together to create a stream ofthought within us that bursty forth from us taking the form of a work of creative expression,which could be a song, a painting or take the form of the written word. But creativity is not limited to the above mentioned fields itself. I dont know of a single person who isnt creative. Most of us have succumbed to the 9 to 5 schedules that the modern world has imposed on us that we have forgotten where our strengths lie within us. In the wired world we live in, we have come to belive that true talent is defined by being able to decently code and program a gazillio