Two decades of Parikrama and Indian rock music

It's always a pleasure to be at a Parikrama performance. When it comes to entertainment, they deliver. Indian bands normally meet a lot of criticism and trash talk for sundry reasons like not being original or being heavily influenced by 'Rest of the World' music. Well, not any more; and here's a measure of a band's success. One is the time factor- being able to stick around and putting up with a heckling crowd, armchair critics, and the most grueling- each other. The other factor is the energy created with the performance at the location. They bring the zing thing- that tingling sensation that runs through the terrain of your skin when the music meets a certain emotion. Be it covers or their own songs, we feel it. These guys have stuck together for 20 years. Keep rocking guys. Here are some other Indian bands (barely the tip of the iceberg) who I have had the pleasure of listening to- live, and photographing.

Indian Ocean


Adil and Vasundhara


Hari and Sukhmani


Faridkot


Menwhopause


Indus Creed

Two decades of Parikrama and Indian rock music

It's always a pleasure to be at a Parikrama performance. When it comes to entertainment, they deliver. Indian bands normally meet a lot of criticism and trash talk for sundry reasons like not being original or being heavily influenced by 'Rest of the World' music. Well, not any more; and here's a measure of a band's success. One is the time factor- being able to stick around and putting up with a heckling crowd, armchair critics, and the most grueling- each other. The other factor is the energy created with the performance at the location. They bring the zing thing- that tingling sensation that runs through the terrain of your skin when the music meets a certain emotion. Be it covers or their own songs, we feel it. These guys have stuck together for 20 years. Keep rocking guys. Here are some other Indian bands (barely the tip of the iceberg) who I have had the pleasure of listening to- live, and photographing.

Indian Ocean


Adil and Vasundhara


Hari and Sukhmani


Faridkot


Menwhopause


Indus Creed

Tea or coffee?

Its interesting that when you are there standing in front of the coffee machine deciding which to pour out- coffee or tea, you tend to blank out for a second wondering if you have pressed the right buttons in life and whether you know what you want, and reel off into where that will take you. Then you take so long to decide, someone waiting behind you prods, "Tea or coffee, sir?"
And it snaps that you are in dire need to rethink what you are doing, or want to do.

Yes coffee, but whipped this time. Take things to the next level, maybe?

Tea or coffee?

Its interesting that when you are there standing in front of the coffee machine deciding which to pour out- coffee or tea, you tend to blank out for a second wondering if you have pressed the right buttons in life and whether you know what you want, and reel off into where that will take you. Then you take so long to decide, someone waiting behind you prods, "Tea or coffee, sir?"
And it snaps that you are in dire need to rethink what you are doing, or want to do.

Yes coffee, but whipped this time. Take things to the next level, maybe?

One line news...

Today's news in one sentence- on BR Ambedkar's 120th birth anniv, Ratan Tata said that he nearly got married 4 times while the sensex shot up 434 points with record 80% turnout in TN elections as Paul Valthaty blasted 120 runs of 63 IPL balls while kids in boston will learn their ABCs on ipads not crayons!
In these days of one liners and quick messaging, how would you summarize the day's news, and make it fun to read? Here's a shot! Cheers and have a great day!

One line news...

Today's news in one sentence- on BR Ambedkar's 120th birth anniv, Ratan Tata said that he nearly got married 4 times while the sensex shot up 434 points with record 80% turnout in TN elections as Paul Valthaty blasted 120 runs of 63 IPL balls while kids in boston will learn their ABCs on ipads not crayons!
In these days of one liners and quick messaging, how would you summarize the day's news, and make it fun to read? Here's a shot! Cheers and have a great day!

of ideas and execution

There are great ideas and there's execution. And they don't go hand in hand always. I may have fantastic ideas and visuals in my head, and may go about town ranting away about what a great thinker I am. I may make an impression and people may recall my blabbering and identify me for my creativity and brilliant thoughts. But that's not even the drawing board. I am nothing but words.

Then there's execution. But there's bad execution also, sadly. I may be hard working, unquestioningly go about a task and whir and spin away till the conveyor belt presents what your majesty ordered. And that is such a dangerous way to work, init? So what do we chase? Well, it's the potent combination of a great idea, a zeal to working hard, how we conduct ourselves in seeing through the deliverable, right till the feedback. This is the holy grail, which solidifies the random figments into real space, dust, metal and glass. The figments that zapped around in your skull are tested, twisted, prodded and real physics shatter your cloud 9 castles. You rethink, revisit the drawing board or worst still, have all your plans scrapped. It dawns on you that you are not playing with dough anymore. You have come too long a way off to turn around. So you stick with your dreams and decide that the only way out is through. So you get real. The homework starts. You are an ant, a horse, a mule and a thinker. Time flies. The castle now has a solid, reliable foundation. It's strong. And believable. It will hold anything on it. Now you start dreaming again, but this time around, others are with you. Their abilities also come through and your dream becomes others' aspirations as well. Next thing, everyone is working together to make this a reality and scrapping this or looking back is so not an option anymore.
The marriage of idea and execution makes you the point of contact for dreamers and sloggers. You want to do bigger and better. The dreamer and the slogger is now the true creator.