“Let’s visit Vivaldi first, and then I’ll take you to Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Chopin, Schubert and the others.” If you’re wondering whether this is a dialogue from a musical sci-fi movie dealing with time-travel, I wouldn’t blame you. It could very well have been. Only, this was what Jerry Silvester Vincent, a student at the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
A place alive with the Sound of Music
Posted in Music, tagged A.R Rahman, KM conservatory, Music, music conservatory, rahman on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A time-consuming hobby
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged antiques, Atmosclock, clocks, hobby, Jaeger le Coutre, Promesse Jauhar, watch-repairing on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The wall on the landing of the third floor, proudly displays a century-old Soth & Homa clock and the corridor leading to the bedroom and the adjoining workshop, is lined with antique wall clocks. Some are working, others not quite, and every piece shows a different time, unlike the regular clock shops where each one [...]
It’s hard to say goodbye…
Posted in cricket, tagged cricket, kumble, laxman, rahul dravid, retirement, sachin tendulkar, saurav ganguly, the last leaf on November 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The five ageing leaves of Indian cricket: Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Laxman and Kumble. Five leaves in autumn, braving the winds of change that are blowing. Look! Two of them are falling. Oh how graciously they fall. In this journey, so short, from the branch to the ground, how they wear a final beauty. And [...]
Comfortably Numb
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Assam Blasts, Comfortably Numb, Journalism, Media on November 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It was the day of the recent blasts in Assam. Our batch of eleven students here at the Asian College of Journalism was divided into pairs. Our assignment was to track, select and edit the day’s stories as they broke, and design a news page as if it were coming out the next day. [...]
