Archive for May 2009
Papanasam Shivan day
Posted on: May 13, 2009
There would not be another day, when you keep thinking about the great Tamil scholar papanasham Shivan and his eminent songs for two continuous days, like marathon race. There would not be another day where you can listen to Young beautiful kids singing his songs with the sweetest of the tone. I’m talking about none other than the Papanasham Shivan Day conducted by the Shiva fine arts, at Kifer, Sunnyvale, California on May 9’th and 10’th.
I could not believe I was in US, rather had a feeling as if I was walking in the streets of Mylapore, Chennai. There were so many with Silk sarees, Half sarees and pattu pavadai. We had a chance to see all the bay area music teachers under one roof and their wonderful concerts. This function was all headed by Ashok Ramani, grandson of Papnasham Shivan. He performed a concert at the end of day. It was really a God given gift for us to enjoy the classic music in a beautiful way. The inclination towards the culture was too high among all the NRIS. Might be the fear of being away from the country triggers their involvement. But what ever May be the case, it was an amazing function to be in and cherished about.
How did I know Ganapathy Subraniyam Iyer and Papanasam Shivan.. Here comes the answer.
Initially I knew Papanasam Shivan as a very famous writer who has written more than 2000 songs and he is also called as “tamil thyagarajar”. Few of his famous songs are ” Enna thavam Seidhanai”, ” Kaa vaa vaa”, ” Saravana bhava ennum”, ” Maa Ramanan”, ” Gajavandhana Karuna”, ” Mooladhara Moorthy”, and so many others. Each and every song has a separate emotion and the singer will automatically deliver those without fail, while singing those songs. As a follower of carnatic music, I was happy enjoying all of his songs till now. But recently I got a great information about papanasam shivan, which I thought would share through this blog.
Ganapathy Subramaniyam Iyer is my great grand father. His native place is Polagam near Tiruvarur district, which is my mother’s birth place too. This is the first knot with papnasam shivan, as he was also living in Polagam for a greater period of his life. My great grand father and great grand mother ” Paarvathi” were living in Polagam. In this way they were actually close friend of Papanasam shivan. In fact my grand mother told me that Papnasam shivan stayed in our house for about 6 months. He has left back one of his green colour suitcase ( also called trunk) , which is still there at our house. My grandmother used to refer it to as ” Green trunk given by Shivan”. My grand mother, Mrs. Jayalakshmi Jayaraman also called as Pattama, was always in praises about papanasham shivan. She used to tell to me that, she had seen him writing songs sitting outside the house.
Its nice to know that in one way or the other we knew such a great writer personally. I’m elated to know that my great grand parents had a connection with such a great scholar. So in a way I’m proud of them, lifting my collars saying we knew papanasam shivan personally :).
Scary alarm..
Posted on: May 8, 2009
Two days back we started for walking and then we heard a loud noise. Immediately we checked our smoke detector if that was making this noise. It was not the smoke detector. Every one came out of the apartment and was curious to know where the sound came from. But we could not find the source of the sound. But it appeared as if it was coming somewhere near our house and this scared us a lot. In this country you cannot take anything lightly. Then the sound stopped all of a sudden. We were having chit chat outside , waiting for the sound to repeat. But for a long time there were no noise and we were king of relaxed. All of a sudden the noise came again. This time it was louder. The brave men went around looking for the source again. This time we were sure it was coming very near to our house. We cross checked inside our house to see that everything was alright. The sound was emanating from the house nearby which was closed for about a month. This scared us a lot. Few little girls standing there were talking about haunted house and ghost , making things all the more worse. But we enjoyed standing there outside in the breezy evening.
After sometime the sound came again, this time they called the manager and she came running to see what happened. Finally she opened the door and turned off the air conditioner which was running inside for days and making this unbearable noise. She assured us that everything was alright and nothing to worry. Actually we were standing outside staring at the house as if some thing is going to blast anytime and telling some good jokes about the same.
But I have to thank the alarm, if it had not gone off, we would have never met out neighbours and get to know them :).
Which is best orange, apple or mango?
Posted on: May 7, 2009
One day when we went out on a long trip, we started a conversation just to rip off the time and involve into something interesting. I asked a question “Which is the best fruit Apple, orange or Mango?’. My husband answered Mango, as he is a sweet lover and he loves sweet in any format. My mother in law answered the same. I rephrased the question and asked ” Which the best fruit for a diabetic patient”. Now the best fruit title shifted from Mango to Apple in chorus. Again I rephrased the question and asked ” which is the best fruit for health” and again the needle shifted to orange. I told them this is life and got a “Frown Brownie ” from my husband :).
Reading adventure
Posted on: May 7, 2009
Recently we took couple of books from library for my one year old daughter. Initially she did not have any interest towards books, but by constantly trying we luckily got her attention onto books. Today morning she herself took a book , came towards me, struggling to get the book and falling off so many times. She reminded me of an ant, what ever may be the case it will carry its food. Finally she reached me and sat on my lap. She showed the book and said ” Bah bah booh”, which mean I have to read the book for her. It was an interesting book with lot of pictures. It was “Lulu’s Happy Birthday!!”, the book was really colourful. I read it once and left the book down. She took the book again and saw me. I read the book again. She was doing this again and again and I was reading the book again and again. I tried many things like pointing colours, pointing shapes, pointing the toys , asking her to say the names, so that she will not get bored. It was a nice experience reading books to small kids. I was doing this so many times and finally she dozed off. Hope she does not bring the same book after she wakes up :).
70-20
Posted on: May 2, 2009
1) My grandmother lived in a village with no or minimal facilities, but have never complained about anything. I live in a city with almost all the facilities, but keep complaining about something or the other.
2) My grandmother did not study much, but was wiser and took beautiful decisions in life. I studied to some extent , but stumble for taking basic decisions or sit with graphs and charts analysing the strategy.
3) My grandmother had many children and fed them all equally and they all grew up happily. I just have one kid, but analyse on the budgets and make a mess in the name of planning.
4) She had less dreams and enjoyed her life, achieved few. I have lots of dreams, have lot of opportunities, but hardly achieve anything.
5) She did not have help of technology at her kitchen, but her cooking was splendid. I have so many gadgets and instant mixtures , but not quite tasteful as hers.
6) She had lots of work at house from cleaning, cooking , maintaining cows, sheep etc.. but never complained of over loaded. I hardly have work at home part from easy cooking and vaccum cleaning , no pets, but I do complain for a lot of work and take rest.
7) She was hail and hearty at her seventies just complaining about knee pain once in a while. I just in my twenties and complain a lot about body pain.
8) She used to eat everything immaterial of what it was made of, but enjoyed the food heartily. But I look at ingredients, calculate calories, looking for low fat and finally end up eating rubbish.
9) She used totally natural products for bathing and hair washing, she have never stepped beauty parlour, but she was beautiful,really beautiful. I use lot of chemical products, even spend 1000’s for getting natural products, pay tax to beauticians, but I don’t think I’m more beautiful than my grand mother with all artificially added products.
I’m sitting at home on a Saturday without stepping out afraid of swine flu and writing this blog, I think of my grand mother, I bet she would have never heard of anything called swine flu and she would not have bothered much about it. She is such a strong lady.
Hospital Phobia…
Posted on: May 1, 2009
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Recently I had a sprain in my hand due to unknown reason. Since the pain was severe I went to hospital. The greatest mistake I did was going to the hospital. The more time I was there the more complicated the issue became.
Initially I met my doctor. She wanted me to take a Xray. At Xray center they tried to twist my hand in all possible positions for a clearer view. So I have to cooperate with intense pain in my wrist. After the Xray was taken I met my doctor again after two hours. Meanwhile the pain was at its maximum peak. Finally our doctor called us and she said your xray looks fine. I was happy that there were no fracture. But then started the major problem. She told us ” Your xray looks fine..we did not suspect any fracture.. but on looking your xray there is some extra particle near your thumb bone.. it may be an extra bone or your bone might have chipped off or it may be a solid or semisolid…”.. Myself and my husband were looking at each other in bewilderment.
Then she asked us meet a hand specialist. We could not stop laughing at the incidents happening. We went to hospital around 12.00 Pm and it was already 4.00Pm and we were wandering around the hospital, with the solution not yet derived. On the way we were discussing it could be an Astrologist who will be looking at my hand and predicting my future. I could not stop laughing imagining that.
Finally we met the hand specialist , she was an European. She asked the usual questions like ” What happened? how did this happen? When did this happen? ” and so many other questions. She told us you may have Gout , which will usually come to women in fifties. If you have gout then you will be famous , as you will be the first women having gout in early stage. I was all the more shocked hearing all these. Finally she put splint on my right hand and we rushed back home. If we spent even an hour extra the sprain would have turned into cancer. After coming home we were laughing for about an hour thinking of the things happened at the hospital.
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