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What a wonderful world

Posted by Prashant - 17/03/10 at 03:03:58 pm

I see the rising sun..skies crimson red
I see the sea serene and low…a boat ready for row
I see People smiling …saying hello
And I think to myself…what a wonderful world.

By no means is this an attempt to bring disgrace to Bob and George by coming up with this shoddy parody of their work. But the words that they penned down in the song “What a Wonderful World” were what came subconsciously to my thought when I watched this beautiful beautiful sunrise from the Puri beach in Orissa. What a wonderful world we live in. Its a rare gift and how rakishly we are dealing with it. Some day it will go for sure but until then do anything and everything to hold on to it as it is the only one we have got and then continue to sing.. I love the whole world, It’s such a brilliant place Boom-de-ah-da, boom-de-ah-da..

Konark Sun Temple, Orissa

Posted by Prashant - 11/03/10 at 03:03:18 am

Amazing India – If there is a book which describes a society that has seen the extremes of human phenomena spectrum, from grandeur to insignificance, unbelievable growth to decay, from glorious to ignominy, about achievements and failures, consolidation and disintegration, love and hate, peace and violence and every sh…ade in between, it has to be a history book of India, every page of which is a gripping plot about a magnificent culture and its marvels and peculiarities. Monuments have been one of the key landmarks on the time map to help us understand this complex culture conundrum of India. Every stone speaks a story and every stone symbolizes the people, their consciousness and the state of their intellectual development.

As I walked by the magnificent stone chariot dedicated to Sun at Konark, Orissa, on one hand I was elated at the magnificence of the architecture/carvings and on the other I was feeling sad about the negligent attitude we show towards something that has been the pinnacle of not only Orissa but Indian culture. Apart from the architecture, the highlight of this temple has to be each of the twelve pairs of exquisitely decorated wheels. Carvings on each wheel narrate a story that is the crux of the philosophy of our amazing India.

Crying – Roy orbison

Posted by Prashant - 08/03/10 at 05:03:34 pm

Roy Orbison : Crying

I was all right for a while
I could smile for a while
But I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say, “Hello”
Oh, you wished me well
You couldn’t tell
That I’d been crying over you
Crying over you
When you said, “So long”
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying
Crying, crying

It’s hard to understand
But the touch of your hand
Can start me crying
I thought that I was over you
But it’s true, so true
I love you even more
Than I did before
But, darling, what can I do?
For you don’t love me
And I’ll always be crying over you
Crying over you

Yes, now you’re gone
And, from this moment on
I’ll be crying, crying
Crying, crying
Yeah, crying, crying
Over you

Amazing India – Golden Moon at Gurdum

Posted by Prashant - 08/03/10 at 03:03:29 am

I always believed that every photograph speaks a story, especially if you are traveling and photographing in India, then it has to have a story to tell. I absolutely love this country. Every kilometer of it is filled with a different colour, a different hue. So when I had good fortune to travel around and take few photographs I wanted to tell my side of story as to what inspired me to take that photograph. So in a quest to tell the story of how I connected with the photograph that I took, I have started this “Amazing India” series.

It started on facebook and will continue there. I am also posting the same on my blog also. The blog allows me to be more verbose than facebook. Anyways here another photo and its story.

Amazing India – Our date with the moon is not a recent phenomenon. Our paeans of the moon go back more than 2000 years before Christ. Rigveda pleads in earnest supplication to the  moon asking it to enlighten us in the right path. Such was the celebration of this celestial body by our people. The romance has continued and only strengthened with every passing year. We have crawled, toddled,walked, ran, stumbled, fallen in our quest to know this celestial body which our ancestors have revered so much, but with every fall we have rolled over, dusted ourselves and started all over. It is because of this relentless perseverance that today our own Chandrayaan-I has made headline news.

As I watched this golden moon in Gurdum, my chest ballooned with pride. Somewhere in the outer realms of space, in the black surrounding this golden ball there was a 1000 odd kilograms of electronic equipment called Chandrayaan-I, which alone, on behalf of a billion people, represented the scientific prowess of an amazing India.

Hindu Life

Posted by Prashant - 03/03/10 at 04:03:21 pm

If  330,000 god and goddess, innumerable holy scriptures, countless cultures and rites weren’t enough to confuse, befuddle, baffle, distract and disorient  a Hindu life today, we now have sex scandals,  enacted by the very people who have been entrusted with responsibility of uploading the sanctity of our religion, rocking the very foundation.

In wake of this where does the average Hindu go? Who would be that “north-star” that he can look-up to navigate this maze?

Magical Ukulele performace by ryan Imamura

Posted by Prashant - 03/03/10 at 03:03:47 am

I don’t know what it is but there is something that very few people have that allows them to give that magic touch to whatever art they perform.

Absolutely love it..Absolutely brilliant. The grace with which his fingers move over the fretboard is simply awesome. Truly inspirational.

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