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Annapurna Devi: An Unheard Melody

Legendary musician Annapurna Devi passed away at 91, leaving behind a rich legacy. We speak to musicians about her music and life.

Written by Suanshu Khurana | Updated: October 16, 2018 12:08:02 pm

Annapurna Devi chose to remain away from the limelight.

Iconic musician Annapurna Devi passed away at 91 on Saturday. A scion of the Maihar gharana, there are several stories of her greatness as a musician, her temper and her unique style of teaching. A recluse, she practised her music like a sadhika, devoted her life to her father’s musical teachings and passed on her knowledge to some students, most notably Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nityanand Haldipur and Basant Kabra, among others. Ustad Allauddin Khan’s daughter, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’s sister and Pt Ravi Shankar’s first wife, she chose to remain away from the limelight. She hardly ever performed in public, never formally recorded, didn’t care for awards and didn’t do interviews. We spoke to those who knew her and those who knew of her.

Shubhendra Rao,
Sitar player, Maihar Gharana and Pt Ravi Shankar’s student.

She was such an enigma that very few people have had the access to the real person. Very few people really knew her. So a lot of things being said and written are speculation. She was one of the most fantastic musicians — hearing a handful of recordings and what the older generation has told us. For her, music was a spiritual path, not for entertainment. It was only for the entertainment of her own soul. She did play in public for a while. She was married to my guruji (Shankar), but there is speculation that she was better than guruji. Who are we to judge if she was 80 per cent baba and Ali Akbar Khan sahab was 60 percent. I lived with guruji for years and he never spoke anything against her and neither did we hear her say anything. I met her when I was about 12 and my father NR Rama Rao, whom she was very fond of, had taken me to see her. I am also named after her son Shubhendra. My father would always say that she had a strong maternal instinct. When we met, I told her I was learning from Panditji, and she said, ‘He is a mighty ocean, take as much from him’. I saw Basant Kabraji there, head down, practising two chalans in Yaman. It was a vilambit (slow) gat, and she’d correct him sometimes. I still remember that composition. Her passing is the end of an era. I wonder if she would have changed and her music would have remained relevant in the later years. In a certain sense, it’s also good to keep the enigma because then you are not evaluated everyday. It is a huge loss for all of us, especially for the Maihar gharana. The third pillar (other two being Ali Akbar Khan and Shankar) is also gone.

Annapurna Devi with Pandit Ravi Shankar;

Pandit Tejendra Majumdar, sarod player, Maihar Gharana

I met pishima (Annapurna Devi) twice, and that was only possible because of my guru, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan sahab, who took me along with him. Unfortunately, I never had the good fortune of listening to her perform, although I have some recordings of hers, which are also very rare to find. She may not have performed a lot in public, but in my opinion, the seva that she did for music, through teaching students, was great. Some of our best musicians have been her students, such as Nikhil Banerjee, Pradeep Barot and of course Hariprasad Chaurasia. She belonged to the generation of gurus who had a certain aura — of knowledge. Sadly, with her death, that generation has died. She never tried to get into the limelight, but was still very respected because her talent was phenomenal. Not many have heard her play live but those who have, still talk about it. Even when you listen to the recordings, it’s hard to believe that someone can play the surbahar with such speed. We have lost the last of a generation of gurus, under whose umbrella we all flourished.

Rajendra Prasanna, flautist and shehnai player, Banaras Gharana

I was never fortunate enough to meet her. It is sad that most of us didn’t get the chance to hear her perform, but her great service to music was through passing on her knowledge. Her legacy and that of the Maihar gharana will be kept alive by all the students who had the good fortune to be taught by her.

Meeta Pandit, vocalist, Gwalior Gharana

Annapurnaji was a sadhika, completely away from public life. Anything to do with the world, she wasn’t very interested in. She sang only for her god and herself. She immersed herself in the teachings of her father. Music lovers kept wanting to hear her but couldn’t. It’s through her students now that we may get to hear some of her music.

Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia at her funeral.

Basant Kabra, sarod player and Annapurna Devi’s student

There was something very systematic about my learning with Annapurna ma. She’d say that if one rehearsed the way she taught and kept at the riyaaz, he/she will become an important artiste. She taught me only Yaman for many years. She’d ask me to not use my own brain for a while and do exactly as she said and then later, once I had understood the way a raga moved, she’d ask, what do you think can be added to this. But approval was necessary. She’d say ‘raag kharaab na ho jaye’. For all that said for her temper, she was very loving. I lived there like her son. The last time I met her was on the occasion of Guru Purnima in August this year. She was on the wheelchair but told me to get my sarod and play Yaman. She sang a bit and told me to follow her lesson. I don’t think there ever has been a better teacher.

With inputs by Pooja Pillai

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The Call of the Sprawl

An exhibition of photographs highlights the urgent crisis of space and resources in Mumbai’s suburbs.

Written by Pooja Pillai | Updated: October 17, 2018 12:20:27 am

Photograph from the exhibition “Mumbai Suburbia: Urban Environment in Crisis”.

Almost every cliche about Mumbai centres on the fact that this is a city of contrasts — slums versus high rises, glamour versus grime, the vastness of the sea versus the cramped interiors of the local trains. Another great contrast, that Mumbaikars have long become reconciled to, is the sharp contrast between south Mumbai — referred to by most as ‘town’ — and the massive expanse that fans out northwards from the narrow stretch from Dadar in the west to Sion in the east. The bulk of Mumbai’s population lives in these suburbs to the north of the historical city of Bombay, but it has always been the latter that has supplied the most enduring visual representations of the city, from the Gateway of India to the Taj Mahal Hotel to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to Marine Drive — all of which present a view of the city that has long stopped being whole and true.

It’s refreshing then to see a photographic project that seeks to examine what life in suburban Mumbai is like. It was with this in mind that German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski set about on his photographic project in Mumbai. Armed with some light photographic equipment, Bialobrzeski tramped across the suburbs and photographed them, while in the city on a residency initiated by the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, from October to December 2017.

Peter Bialobrzeski

The photographs are currently on view at Gallery MMB, in the exhibition “Mumbai Suburbia: Urban Environment in Crisis”. The images show a city coming apart at the seams, filled with structures, both planned and unplanned. The manic and all-consuming pace of its life is evident, not from photographs of crowds and traffic, but from the urban detritus in the form of discarded vehicles and building material that is ignored by most. They highlight the urgent crisis of space and resources in a city that refuses to stop growing
or moving.

Bialobrzeski’s interest in documenting the suburbs and how they’ve grown into the massive sprawl that they are today comes, he says, from trying to understand how urban spaces are shaped by us. “As far as I know, nobody has ever undertaken a lengthy artistic exploration of Mumbai’s suburbs. So at least it is a contribution to the debate about how cities are shaped by human beings. Of course there are a lot of political, social and cultural reasons why Mumbai’s suburbia is like it is. I have only hints of it. But they’ll become at best part of a discussion as well as a document to later generations (about) the way we are,” he says, over email.

Bialobrzeski has long been preoccupied by how urban environments are formed and has travelled the world in search of subjects through which this preoccupation can be addressed. He began as a photojournalist for a local newspaper in his native city of Wolfsburg in Germany, and is now a regular professor for photography at the University of the Arts in Bremen. His work has won him several awards, including the World Press Photo Award, in 2003 and 2010. Over the last 17 years, he has published 17 books.

Bialobrzeski has travelled to India multiple times, working on the project “XXX Holy-Journey” in which he explored the country’s rich spiritual tapestry, and Kochi Diary, the fifth book in his “City Diary” series. The images from Mumbai will also eventually be published as a book, with an essay by architect Rahul Mehrotra.

The exhibition is on at Gallery MMB in Mumbai till November 22

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Pandit Lacchu Maharaj birth anniversary: A few facts about the tabla maestro

The tabla maestro, brought up in Varanasi, was trained under his father, Vasudev Maharaj and started performing from a fairly early age. In order to celebrate his 74th birth anniversary, Googe doodle has been dedicated to him today.

By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 16, 2018 12:56:57 pm

Lachhu Maharaj remembered on 74th birth anniversary with Google Doodle. (Source: Express Archives)

Born in 1944 as Laxmi Narayan Singh, Pandit Lacchu Maharaj has been the recipient of several accolades. The tabla maestro, who was brought up in Varanasi, trained under his father, Vasudev Maharaj, and started performing on stage from a fairly young age. Although his talent was never doubted, the maestro did not find much fame during his lifetime. It was his namesake and famous kathak dancer Lachhu Maharaj who received most of the adulation. Celebrating his 74th birth anniversary, Google on Tuesday paid tribute with a doodle of him on its homepage.

Watch him perform here.

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During his lifetime, Pandit Lacchu Maharaj performed with various artistes but it was his solo performances that are best remembered. After smoking a chillum, he would go on to play for a few hours as the audience sat enthralled and mesmerised. “What was interesting was that in all those hours, there would never be any repetition. He would keep showcasing new gats, tukras and parans (compositional forms) for all that time, leaving his audiences mesmerised,” Girija Devi, who had accompanied him on stage, had said. 

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As a form of protest, the table maestro had apparently played the tabla inside the prison during Emergency and refused the awards that were given to him, including Padma Shri.  “Applause from the audience is any artiste’s prize. He/she does not need anything else,” he was often heard saying.

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4,000 kgs of turmeric used to create Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata

The pandal was thrown open to public on Friday, i.e the 'tritiya' or the third day of Navratri. Apart from the idol, the cooking bowl made for the decor was also one of the key attractions.

By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 16, 2018 12:12:18 pm

The pandal was thrown open to public on Friday, i.e the ‘tritiya’ or the third day of Navratri. (Source: iamamitjaiswal/Instagram)

To spread awareness about the health benefits of turmeric, a pandal in Kolkata has gone the extra mile. The Santoshpur Lake Pally Puja pandal used around 4,000 kgs of turmeric to make the pandal, including the idol of goddess Durga.

In a statement to India Today, Ashok Jain, marketing director JK Masale, and the force behind the concept,  said, “Turmeric is a healthy item and that’s why we chose the concept. It is beneficial for everything, be it health or cosmetic. Haldi is also the main item of Maa Annapurna- main ingredients of any food. We are trying to spread its awareness”.

The pandal was thrown open to public on Friday, i.e the ‘tritiya‘ or the third day of Navratri. Apart from the idol, the cooking bowl made for the decor was also one of the key attractions. It had turmeric sticks hanging around the earthen pot.

Check some of the pictures here.

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Kolkata is popular for coming up with all kinds of thematic puja pandals and this year is no different. There is one paying tribute to sex workers. In the streets leading up to the Ahiritola Jubakbrinda Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata, city dwellers are stopping by to appreciate a large artwork on the street.

The 300-foot-long graffiti captures the hardships of sex workers. With the theme Utsarito Alo, they are addressing not only the inclusion of these sex workers but also trying to give them the respect and dignity they deserve. “Durga Puja is about social mingling and celebrations by all, including sex workers. With this graffiti, we are pledging to return their basic rights to live in society, keeping their head high just like others,” Debarjoon Kar, curator of the project told indianexpress.com.

A pandal in North Kolkata has kept the sex workers in focus this year. (Source: Express photo by Partha Paul)

A Durga Puja pandal has also been created for the visually impaired. A special face of goddess Durga has been made using 22000 screws for them to touch and feel what others experience when they see an idol.

Taking a step forward towards inclusion, Samaj Sebi Sangha in South Kolkata has dedicated their pandal to the visually impaired this year. (Express photo by Partha Paul)

“We have always tried to use Durga Puja to pass on an important message and make it special for those who often don’t get to enjoy it fully. So, this year we tried to make a difference in the life of those who never get to see the grandeur of the festival,” Aniket Moitra, General Secretary of the Samaj Sebi Sangha Puja committee told indianexpress.com.

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A Durga Puja pandal created for visually impaired devotees and visitors

The Samaj Sebi Sangha pandal is designed for the visually impaired – enabling them to fully “see” Ma Durga and the festivities

Written by Shreya Das | Kolkata | Updated: October 16, 2018 10:37:57 am

Taking a step forward towards inclusion, Samaj Sebi Sangha in South Kolkata’s has dedicated their pandal to the visually impaired this year. (Source: Express photo by Partha Paul)

One of the defining features of Durga Puja is that it is about inclusion – everyone is welcome to the community pujas to participate, from non-Bengalis to even atheists. Taking this spirit of inclusion one step forward, Samaj Sebi Sangha which is in Ballygunge, Kolkata has dedicated their pandal to the visually impaired this year.

In the busy lanes leading up to Vivekananda Park in south Kolkata, it’s difficult to miss the bright yellow tactile path — usually seen at metro stations, but never at a pandal premise. However, at this pandal, it’s about making it easy for visually challenged people to enjoy the festivities with as much fervour as everyone else.

A special face of goddess Durga has been made using 22000 screws for them to touch and feel what others experience when they see an idol. (Source: Express photo by Partha Paul)

Although in most pandals, visitors are not allowed to touch art installations and artefacts – more often because the pandal committees fear vandalism — at this pandal, visually challenged devotees and visitors are treated to a different experience.

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At the mouth of the path leading up to the pandal, is a huge façade of Ma Durga made from 22,000 screws. This special installation has been made by artist Pintu Sikhdar, allowing those who are visually impaired to touch and feel what others experience when they see an idol.

Although in most puja premises, visitors are not allowed to touch art installations and artefacts, here it’s different. At this pandal, visually challenged people are invited to have a wholesome experience of the festival. (Source: Express photo by Partha Paul)

“We have always tried to use Durga Puja to pass on an important message and make it special for those who often don’t get to enjoy it fully. So, this year we tried to make a difference in the life of those who never get to see the grandeur of the festival,” Aniket Moitra, General Secretary of the Puja committee told indianexpress.com.

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To ensure that the experience is as complete as possible, the organisers spoke to about 50 visually impaired students to get their inputs on their experiences on celebrating Durga Puja in a pandal and how they celebrate the festival. These inputs, in turn, have been made into a special audio presentation, which is being played at the pandal during the six days of the festival. Tollywood actor, Prasenjit Chatterjee has voiced this audio presentation.

Special artefacts have been made for the visually challenged to experience the essence of Durga Puja through paper artworks and braille. (Source: Express photo by Partha Paul)

“We hope that the visitors coming to the pandal can feel what those without eyesight feel during these days,” Moitra added.

Along the sides of the pandal, curators Sumi and Subhodeep Majumdar have installed panels with Braille that narrate the mantras and shlokas relevant to this festival. Collaborating with the members of the Braille press in Kolkata, the curators have also published a schedule for visually challenged visitors to inform them about the timings of the various rituals during the festival.

With an aim to raise awareness about eye donation, the pandal has highlighted their struggles in various ways and hopes people find ways to bring light back in their lives again. (Source: Express photo by Partha Paul)

“We want to raise awareness and help the Braille press which is run by visually challenged people. We also want to help them financially to provide support,” the committee member added.

The other aim is to raise awareness about eye donation. Samaj Sebi has also collaborated with a social organisation – Voice of World, Behala and MP Birla Eye Bank to organise an eye donation camp. They expect to have at least 500 pledges during the festival. “In just two days we have managed to get the support of 60 people, and we are hopeful the number will only increase.”

And this Monday, Maha Shashti, as testament to the efforts and intentions of the puja committee and its curators and artists, it was heartening to see a group of visually impaired people walking into the pandal. Finally, they could enjoy the Durga Puja festival in all its splendour.

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APJ Abdul Kalam Birth Anniversary: Inspirational quotes by ‘Missile Man of India’

APJ Abdul Kalam Quotes: APJ Abdul Kalam has been an inspiration to many. He taught the people of the country and the generations to dream. On his birth anniversary, here are some quotes by him. 

By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | Published: October 15, 2018 9:32:38 am

APJ Abdul Kalam’s words continue to inspire. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra)

APJ Abdul Kalam Quotes: Former president of India, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam has been an inspiration to many. Born on October 15 in Tamil Nadu, Kalam studied aerospace engineering and worked as a scientist. Owing to his contribution in the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology, he was widely known as the ‘Missile Man of India’.

Apart from science, his interest in philosophy, languages and literature saw the former president leave his imprint in them. He received doctorates from universities all around the world and was also a connoisseur of music. He was a prolific writer and wrote 18 books, 22 poems and 4 songs during his lifetime.

In July 2015, while delivering a lecture, he collapsed and passed away on July 27. However, he has left behind a legacy and his words, in spite of the passage of time, have not lost their relevance. They continue to inspire and motivate.

He taught the next generation to dream. On his birth anniversary, here are some quotes by him.

The former president was an avid reader of books on cosmology and celestial bodies. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

Dr Kalam was nominated for the MTV youth icon twice- in the year 2003 and then again in 2006. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

After his death, he had no other property in his name other than books. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

The former president has received doctorates from 48 universities. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

The beloved former president started selling newspapers in his neighbourhood and earned his first wages at the age of 8. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

He wantes to become a fighter pilot but that could not happen. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

He interacted with several students to inspire and motivate them. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

Dr Kalam’s words have not lost their relevance. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)
Dr Kalam made one realise the importance of dreaming big. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)One can always go back to former president’s words for some inspiration. (Designed by Nidhi Mishra/Indian Express)

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‘We need to be more inclusive’: Anita Dube

Artist Anita Dube, curator of the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, talks about questioning hierarchies and breaking stereotypes

Written by Vandana Kalra | Updated: October 15, 2018 12:50:51 am

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In your curatorial note for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale you share this: the desire for liberation and comradeship where the possibilities for a non-alienated life could spill into a ‘politics of friendship’. Can you elaborate.

In recent times, media has taken over our lives and we are all constantly looking into our screens. We are communicating a lot but actually not communicating. This is one of the reasons why changes in society are happening so rapidly. I feel one of the reasons for the rise of the right-wing is that they have been working at the grassroots. They have a live community, apart from mobilising through technology. The liberal resistance has not been able to mobilise, except in small numbers. The world is becoming alienated. This is what I want to work against. It is about identifying the core problems. It is important for me to think that the Biennale is in this moment, in 2018, and what are the things that I would like to address at this moment in history. The second important question is, who is my audience? It is not just the one percent that is travelling and looking at art the world over. This is a public event. There is a curious audience that has a level of literacy where they want to look at culture as a window. Six lakh people attended the last Biennale. The aim is not to put out a spectacular show. I am not looking at the star system.

Is there a tendency to look at the stars?

That’s how it has been. The capital circulates within that one percent. It is about time we talk differently, or else things will slide further. I know it is a 108-day event, I am trying to set up small models that might be taken up elsewhere. I think the future is micro, in intense well-articulated micro events, and building a strong network of these. I am looking at practices in the margins, from the obvious political margins, Dalit artists, queer artists, to even contemporary women artists, whose works I admire but haven’t perhaps been in the limelight as much. The Biennale will be like a symphony. It will be open to all kinds of mediums. People can make their choices. We need to open up practices, be inclusive.

I was reading that during your travels for the Biennale you focussed on the South of the equator.

There are artists from the US, but yes, there a strong representation from Africa, Latin American artists. Unfortunately, I could not travel to Brazil and Argentina. There is a lot of Indian diaspora — I think that is important because they leave the place but carry the nostalgia. They are harbingers of this kind of fusion, and have potential to forge languages that are futuristic. We have artists such as Chitra Ganesh and Shirin Neshat.

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Your own art is very political. Will the Biennale also be dominated by political works?

Art is about thinking of different things and in the Biennale there will be a strong sense of thinking artists. Politics is not something that I am looking at directly. Sloganeering politics can be counter-productive, you can become totally alienated and be stereotyped. Look at how JNU and Marxism have become bad words. It’s a wonderful university; Marxism is a theory, philosophy. The regressive forces can just brand you and kill your voice. In the Biennale, I am not doing politics like that. I am consciously refraining from making it one that carries the strings of being a political biennale. I want to wean people off from this logic of stereotyping.

Do you think you have additional responsibility as the first woman curator of the Biennale?

It is tremendous responsibility. This is also perhaps the first time when there will be more women than men. I don’t think that has happened anywhere. Only two artists will be repeated from the earlier editions — William Kendrick and KP Krishnakumar. So I am also working with artists who may not have been considered uptil now.

What is your curatorial vision?

I am imagining the Biennale in two parts. The exhibition is just one aspect. The other aspect is a pavilion, where things will happen in the evening, including programmes and performances. During the day it will be a conversation space. Anybody is welcome to share what they want, there will be lectures and slides. Everybody is a curator. I want to give up my authority. It will be a major knowledge laboratory. It is the biggest classroom possible. It will open the audience and younger artists to a much bigger vision than just mine.

Did the recent floods in Kerala derail things. Also, did it affect the line-up?

When it happened, there was a dilemma, should we go ahead or postpone it. Many projects were on the verge of completion. Some artists decided to respond to the floods more directly. We are talking to a music band, Oorali, to travel through coastal Kerala with their bus and thank the fishermen who helped rescue people during the floods.

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In the Home of Nature

This year, the Durga Puja festivities at Chittaranjan Park focus on the environment

Updated: October 17, 2018 12:58:28 am

The Durga Puja pandals at Chittaranjan Park. Photo by Nabeela Paniyath

Sameer Dutta, president of Co-operative Ground Durga Puja Samiti at Chittaranjan Park, does not have a moment to spare — the decorators want his advice on the last-minute touch-ups, the priest wants lotus blooms and the caterers also need to be instructed. “We are seven years shy from our golden jubilee. We are veterans in this field,” says the 54-year-old, adding, “For the last 47 years, several Bengalis in Chittaranjan Park have offered the auspicious ashtami anjali at this pandal. For those who migrated to Delhi from East Bengal in 1970s, this puja was a solace of sorts.”

This year, his pandal is made of papier-mache and dwells on an eco-friendly theme — just like several others in the neighbourhood. A few blocks away is the B-Block Durga Puja Samiti, where for more than 40 years the focus has been on the environment. “We will do the immersion in a pond we are making in the ground. We will turn the remains into manure. Steel utensils will be used to serve food rather than plastic plates. We took these initiatives to ensure that the Yamuna does not get polluted,” says Ashim Banerjee of the B-Block Samiti.

The iconic Kali Mandir Samiti puja has not embraced theme-based pujas and still adheres to traditional customs. Sandip Majumdar, secretary of CR Park Kali Mandir Society, says, “Our theme is traditional pooja. We are interested in doing the puja according to the shastras.” The samiti is meticulous about flying in flowers from Kolkata for the festivities. “We have even booked a lotus pond because we need fresh flowers on ashtami and navami,” adds Majumdar.

The colony is also home to arguably the largest puja pandal in north India — the Mela Ground Puja Samiti. Piyush Das Gupta, founding member of the Samiti, claims that they also focus on keeping the festivities “environment-friendly”. “We are in touch with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. We do not want to pollute the Yamuna. Our pandal is made of aluminum, with waterproofing. Our idols are designed in Shiv Mandir. We only give the final finishing touches in the pandal,” says Gupta.

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New book offers traditional Indian cooking, lifestyle hacks for healthier being

The 215-page book has two parts. The first part deals with food, lifestyle and concepts of mind while the second has a three-month-long 'traditional habits calendar' with instructions that are aimed at altering people's viewpoint towards food.

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: October 16, 2018 6:09:10 pm

In “Ultimate Grandmother Hacks”, nutritionist-author Kavita Devgan cooks up an amalgamation of several “old school” ideas, including food recipes and lifestyle changes. (Source: File Photo)

A new book offers recipes and suggests changes that can be implemented for a healthier lifestyle while following traditional Indian diet. In “Ultimate Grandmother Hacks“, nutritionist-author Kavita Devgan cooks up an amalgamation of several “old school” ideas, including food recipes and lifestyle changes, that were traditionally followed in households but are disappearing now.

“The biggest lesson I learnt from my mother, which has only strengthened over the years, is that common sense should always be first. She is a firm believer of the fact that our gut tells us what’s good. We just need to listen,” she says. Devgan, an acclaimed nutritionist with 20 years of experience as a health consultant, believes science, as people know today, is simply trying to catch up with many age-old nuggets of wisdom and observation-led beliefs.

“As science has quite a few centuries of work to catch up, we need to give it a little time. Meanwhile, it will do us good to keep following the healthy way of living that our elders have taken pains to outline for us. Yes, even without science backing it up at times,” she adds. She previously penned “Don’t Die! 50 Healthy Habits of Thin People”, before the recently launched “Ultimate Grandmother Hacks”, published by Rupa.

Ultimate Grandmother Hacks by Kavita Devgan. (Source: Amazon.in)

The 215-page book has two parts. The first part deals with food, lifestyle and concepts of mind while the second has a three-month-long ‘traditional habits calendar’ with instructions that are aimed at altering people’s viewpoint towards food. “This book is an amalgamation of many of those ‘old school’ ideas which was culminated into a way of life till not very long ago, and who time, I feel, has come back again.

“In fact, these rules never went away, they were always there. It is just that we were the ones who somehow got swayed by misplaced information and the lure of the new, modern way of life,” she says.

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All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered | NASA

All in the Family: Kin 

of Gravitational-Wave 

Source Discovered

A distant cosmic relative to the first source that astronomers detected in both gravitational waves and light may have been discovered. This object, called GRB150101B, was first detected by identified as a gamma ray burst (GRB) by the NASA’s Fermi satellite in January 2015.

Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/UMC/E. Troja et al.; Optical and infrared: NASA/STScI

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About a year ago, astronomers excitedly reported the first detection of electromagnetic waves, or light, from a gravitational wave source. Now, a year later, researchers are announcing the existence of a cosmic relative to that historic event.

The discovery was made using data from telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT).

The object of the new study, called GRB150101B, was first reported as a gamma-ray burst detected by Fermi in January 2015. This detection and follow-up observations at other wavelengths show GRB150101B shares remarkable similarities to the neutron star merger and gravitational wave source discovered by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its European counterpart Virgo in 2017 known as GW170817. The latest study concludes that these two separate objects may, in fact, be related.

“It's a big step to go from one detected object to two,” said Eleonora Troja, lead author of the study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP). “Our discovery tells us that events like GW170817 and GRB150101B could represent a whole new class of erupting objects that turn on and off in X-rays and might actually be relatively common.”

Troja and her colleagues think both GRB150101B and GW170817 were most likely produced by the same type of event: the merger of two neutron stars, a catastrophic coalescence that generated a narrow jet, or beam, of high-energy particles. The jet produced a short, intense burst of gamma rays (known as a short GRB), a high-energy flash that can last only seconds. GW170817 proved that these events may also create ripples in space-time itself called gravitational waves.

The apparent match between GRB150101B and GW170817 is striking: both produced an unusually faint and short-lived gamma ray burst, and both were a source of bright, blue optical light lasting a few days, and X-ray emission lasted much longer. The host galaxies are also remarkably similar, based on Hubble and DCT observations. Both are bright elliptical galaxies with a population of stars a few billion years old and displaying no evidence for new stars forming. 

“We have a case of cosmic look-alikes,” said co-author Geoffrey Ryan of UMCP. “They look the same, act the same and come from similar neighborhoods, so the simplest explanation is that they are from the same family of objects.”

In the cases of both GRB150101B and GW170817, the slow rise in the X-ray emission compared to most GRBs implies that the explosion was likely viewed "off-axis," that is, with the jet not pointing directly towards the Earth. The discovery of GRB150101 represents only the second time astronomers have ever detected an off-axis short GRB.  

While there are many commonalities between GRB150101B and GW170817, there are two very important differences. One is their location. GW170817 is about 130 million light years from Earth, while GRB150101B lies about 1.7 billion light years away. Even if Advanced LIGO had been operating in early 2015, it would very likely not have detected gravitational waves from GRB150101B because of its greater distance.

“The beauty of GW170817 is that it gave us a set of characteristics, kind of like genetic markers, to identify new family members of explosive objects at even greater distances than LIGO can currently reach,” said co-author Luigi Piro of National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome.

The optical emission from GB150101B is largely in the blue portion of the spectrum, providing an important clue that this event involved a so-called kilonova, as seen in GW170817. A kilonova is an extremely powerful explosion that not only releases a large amount energy, but may also produce important elements like gold, platinum, and uranium that other stellar explosions do not.

It is possible that a few mergers like the ones seen in GW170817 and GRB150101B had been detected as short GRBs before but had not been identified with other telescopes. Without detections at longer wavelengths like X-rays or optical light, GRB positions are not accurate enough to determine what galaxy they are located in. 

In the case of GRB150101B, astronomers thought at first that the counterpart was an X-ray source detected by Swift in the center of the galaxy, likely from material falling into a supermassive black hole. However, follow-up observations with Chandra detected the true counterpart away from the center of the host galaxy.

The other important difference between GW170817 and GRB150101B is that without gravitational wave detection, the team does not know the masses of the two objects that merged. It is possible that the merger was between a black hole and a neutron star, rather than two neutron stars.

“We need more cases like GW170817 that combine gravitational wave and electromagnetic data to find an example between a neutron star and black hole. Such a detection would be the first of its kind,” said co-author Hendrik Van Eerten of the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. “Our results are encouraging for finding more mergers and making such a detection.”

A paper describing these results appears in the journal Nature Communications today and is available online. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.

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Magnetic Fields May Be 

the Key to Black Hole Activity

Artist’s conception of the core of Cygnus A, including the dusty donut-shaped surroundings, called a torus, and jets launching from its center. Magnetic fields are illustrated trapping the dust in the torus. These magnetic fields could be helping power the black hole hidden in the galaxy’s core by confining the dust in the torus and keeping it close enough to be gobbled up by the hungry black hole.

Credits: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook

Collimated jets provide astronomers with some of the most powerful evidence that a supermassive black hole lurks in the heart of most galaxies. Some of these black holes appear to be active, gobbling up material from their surroundings and launching jets at ultra-high speeds, while others are quiescent, even dormant. Why are some black holes feasting and others starving? Recent observations from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, are shedding light on this question.

SOFIA data indicate that magnetic fields are trapping and confining dust near the center of the active galaxy, Cygnus A, and feeding material onto the supermassive black hole at its center.

The unified model, which attempts to explain the different properties ­of active galaxies, states that the core is surrounded by a donut-shaped dust cloud, called a torus. How this obscuring structure is created and sustained has never been clear, but these new results from SOFIA indicate that magnetic fields may be responsible for keeping the dust close enough to be devoured by the hungry black hole. In fact, one of the fundamental differences between active galaxies like Cygnus A and their less active cousins, like our own Milky Way, may be the presence or absence of a strong magnetic field around the black hole.

Although celestial magnetic fields are notoriously difficult to observe, astronomers have used polarizedlight — optical light from scattering and radio light from accelerating electrons — to study magnetic fields in galaxies. But optical wavelengths are too short and the radio wavelengths are too long to observe the torus directly. The infrared wavelengths observed by SOFIA are just right, allowing scientists, for the first time, to target and isolate the dusty torus.

SOFIA’s new instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-plus (HAWC+), is especially sensitive to the infrared emission from aligned dust grains. This has proven to be a powerful technique to study magnetic fields and test a fundamental prediction of the unified model: the role of the dusty torus in the active-galaxy phenomena.

“It’s always exciting to discover something completely new,” noted Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, a scientist at the SOFIA Science Center, and the lead author on the report of this new discovery. “These observations from HAWC+ are unique. They show us how infrared polarization can contribute to the study of galaxies.”

Two images of Cygnus A layered over each other to show the galaxy’s jets glowing with radio radiation (shown in red). Quiescent galaxies, like our own Milky Way, do not have jets like this, which may be related to magnetic fields. The yellow image shows background stars and the center of the galaxy shrouded in dust when observed with visible light. The area SOFIA observed is inside the small red dot in the center.

Credits: Optical Image: NASA/STSiC Radio Image: NSF/NRAO/AUI/VLA

Recent observations of the heart of Cygnus A made with HAWC+ show infrared radiation dominated by a well-aligned dusty structure. Combining these results with archival data from the Herschel Space Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gran Telescopio Canarias, the research team found that this powerful active galaxy, with its iconic large-scale jets, is able to confine the obscuring torus that feeds the supermassive black hole using a strong magnetic field.

The results of this study were published in the July 10th issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Cygnus A is in the perfect location to learn about the role magnetic fields play in confining the dusty torus and channeling material onto the supermassive black hole because it is the closest and most powerful active galaxy. More observations of different types of galaxies are necessary to get the full picture of how magnetic fields affect the evolution of the environment surrounding supermassive black holes. If, for example, HAWC+ reveals highly polarized infrared emission from the centers of active galaxies but not from quiescent galaxies, it would support the idea that magnetic fields regulate black hole feeding and reinforce astronomers’ confidence in the unified model of active galaxies.

SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 106-inch diameter telescope. It is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center, DLR. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley manages the SOFIA program, science and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) at the University of Stuttgart. The aircraft is maintained and operated from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Hangar 703, in Palmdale, California.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx 

Executes Second Asteroid 

Approach Maneuver

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its second Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-2) today. The spacecraft’s main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft’s speed relative to Bennu from 315 mph (141 m/sec) to 11.8 mph (5.2 m/sec). Likewise, the spacecraft’s approach speed dropped from nearly 7,580 miles (12,200 km) to 280 miles (450 km) per day. The mission team will continue to examine telemetry and tracking data and will have more information over the next week. This burn marked the last planned use of the spacecraft’s main engines prior to OSIRIS-REx’s departure from Bennu in March 2021.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is in the midst of a six-week series of maneuvers designed to fly the spacecraft through a precise corridor toward Bennu. AAM-1, which executed on Oct. 1, slowed the spacecraft by 785.831 mph (351.298 m/sec) and consumed 532.4 pounds (241.5 kilograms) of fuel. AAM-3 is scheduled for October 29. The last of the burns, AAM-4, is scheduled for November 12 and will adjust the spacecraft’s trajectory to arrive at a position 12 miles (20 km) from Bennu on December 3. After arrival, the spacecraft will perform a series of fly-bys over Bennu’s poles and equator.

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The 'Claw Game' on Mars: NASA InSight Plays to Win | NASA

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The 'Claw Game' on Mars: NASA InSight Plays to Win | NASA

The 'Claw Game' on Mars: 

NASA InSight Plays to Win

NASA’s InSight mission tests an engineering version of the spacecraft’s robotic arm in a Mars-like environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The five-fingered grapple on the end of the robotic arm is lifting up the Wind and Thermal Shield, a protective covering for InSight’s seismometer. The test is being conducted under reddish “Mars lighting” to simulate activities on the Red Planet.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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If you've ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal "hand" to pick up a prize. Imagine trying to play that game when the claw is on Mars, the objects you're trying to grasp are far more fragile than a stuffed bear and all you have is a stitched-together panorama of the environment you're working in. Oh, and there might be a dust storm.

NASA's InSight lander, slated to arrive on Mars Nov. 26, 2018, will be the first mission to use a robotic arm to grasp instruments from the spacecraft and release them into place on another planet. These instruments will help scientists study the deep interior of Mars for the first time.

"We have a lot riding on InSight's robotic arm, so we've been practicing our version of the claw game dozens of times," said Tom Hoffman, InSight's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "The difference, of course, is that, unlike the claw machine designers, our robotic arm team works hard to allow us to win every time."

InSight's robotic arm (called the Instrument Deployment Arm) will pick up two sensitive science packages from the spacecraft deck and gently lower them to the ground: the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, which will assess Mars' interior energy, and the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, which will study vibrations of the ground set off by marsquakes and meteorite impacts. InSight also needs to place a Wind and Thermal Shield over the seismometer, like a cloche -- or rounded dish cover -- at a fancy dinner service.

"The robotic arm has to place everything perfectly," said Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, team lead for InSight's instrument deployment system operations at JPL. "But we like a challenge."

An engineering version of the robotic arm on NASA’s InSight mission lifts the engineering version of the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This test was conducted by InSight team members in a Mars-like environment, including reddish lighting, to simulate conditions InSight will encounter on the Red Planet. The orange tape-like tail behind HP3 is a tether that connects the HP3 support structure to the instrument’s back-end electronics box on the lander.

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Luckily, engineers didn't have to start from scratch. The JPL engineering team had in storage a leftover robotic arm -- made for the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander mission that never flew. The arm wasn't as beefy as ones built for missions like the Mars Curiosity Rover, which carries more weight at the end of its arm. But the 2001 arm was designed for lifting, making it appropriate for InSight's mission. And it was long (5.9 feet, or 1.8 meters, to be exact). InSight needs to put the seismometer and heat probe a significant distance away from itself for the sensitive instruments to function optimally.

As with any vintage machine, engineers had to refurbish the arm and customize it for InSight. They pulled it apart, replaced some pieces, relubricated it and repainted it. Engineers also added a color camera and a grapple (the claw).

The original grapple design had two stiff "toes" emanating from a central base, which Trebi-Ollennu likens to a crow's foot. Each instrument was outfitted with a knob, or "grapple point," that resembled a lollipop with a long stem for the stiff foot to grab. In tests on sloped surfaces, the lollipop often got stuck in the toes. Given the possibility of slight slopes at the InSight landing site, engineers didn't want to take that chance.

The second proposed design was an idea familiar to those who have seen junkyard operators maneuver crushed cars. Engineers hung a magnet on an umbilical cord from the robotic arm and put steel plates on the instruments. Tests showed, however, that dust collected on both the magnet's surface and the instruments' steel plate, decreasing the ability of the two parts to stick together. Given that InSight's landing date falls within the typical dust storm season on Mars, engineers decided against this magnet design.

The third idea was the charm: a clawlike grapple with five metal fingers about the length of human fingers (about 2.5 inches, or 63 millimeters, long) hanging off the end of an umbilical cord to compensate for any slopes. The grapple point on each instrument resembled the original spherical lollipop, but with the top half of the sphere cut off and a shorter stem.

An especially clever feature of this robotic hand, Trebi-Ollennu explained, is that melting of paraffin wax -- a common constituent of candles and crayons -- controls the opening of InSight's fingers.

To begin the process, an actuator heats a very pure paraffin wax to 84°F (29°C), which takes about 15 minutes in the average ambient Mars temperature of about minus 60°F (minus 50°C). The wax expands as it melts and pushes out a rod that pushes on a spring that opens the fingers. When the fingers open, a microswitch turns off the heater, and the cooling, contracting wax allows the rod -- and therefore the fingers -- to retract. At rest, the fingers are closed so that if the hand happens to lose power, it won't drop an instrument.

A few days after landing, InSight engineers will put the robotic arm into action. The arm will move so the camera attached to it can take images of the area around the lander site. Back on Earth, engineers will use those images to figure out where the instruments can be safely set down. They will also practice deploying the instruments in a Mars-like test bed at JPL. Once the team is confident that they have a robust plan -- which could take weeks -- the arm with its grapple will slowly begin to deploy those instruments for real on Mars.

"We're looking forward to the demanding work of getting InSight's claw machine in motion," said Bruce Banerdt, InSight's principal investigator at JPL. "But the prize for the InSight team won't be a fuzzy bear. It'll be the stream of science data flowing in from precisely placed instruments -- telling us what Mars is really like on the inside."

JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, was built and tested by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver.

Find more information about InSight at:

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

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Counting Down to ICON's Launch

In October 2018, we're launching the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, to study Earth's dynamic interface to space. Its combination of remote and in situ measurements will help scientists better understand this region — and how it changes in response to both space weather from above and terrestrial weather from below, a dynamic mix that can affect our communications, satellites and astronauts.

10-mile-per-hour sensitivity

Though the ICON spacecraft zooms around Earth at upwards of 14,000 miles per hour, its wind-measuring instrument MIGHTI can detect changes in wind speed smaller than 10 miles per hour. MIGHTI makes use of the Doppler effect — the same phenomenon that makes an ambulance siren change pitch as it passes you — and measures the tiny shifts in color caused by the motion of glowing gases in the upper atmosphere, which reveals their speed and direction.

97-minute orbital period

ICON circles Earth in just over an hour and a half, completing nearly 15 orbits per day. Its orbit is inclined by 27 degrees, so over time, its measurements will completely cover its zone of interest near the equator.

Visualization of ICON's orbit.

Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

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8 1/3-foot solar panel

ICON doesn't carry any onboard fuel. Instead, its single solar panel — measuring about 100 inches long and 33 inches wide, a little bit bigger than a standard door — produces power for the spacecraft. In science mode, ICON draws about 209-265 Watts of power.

7 years of teamwork

The idea for ICON was selected for further study in 2011, and the team has been hard at work ever since.

634 pounds

How much does good science weigh? In ICON's case, about as much as vending machine. The observatory weighs 634 pounds altogether.

5 snapshots per minute from FUV

Because ICON travels so fast, its Far Ultraviolet instrument takes eight snapshots per second of passing structures. This avoids blurring the images and captures the fine detail scientists need. But ICON's bandwidth only allows FUV to send 5 images per minute, so the instrument uses a de-blurring technique called time-delay integration to combine 12 seconds' worth of data into a single image.

4 types of instruments collecting data in tandem

ICON carries four distinct instruments to study Earth's boundary to space.

• 2 MIGHTIs (Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging): Built by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., to observe the temperature and speed of the neutral atmosphere. There are two identical MIGHTI instruments onboard ICON.
   
• 2 IVMs (Ion Velocity Meter): Built by the University of Texas at Dallas to observe the speed of the charged particle motions, in response to the push of the high-altitude winds and the electric fields they generate. ICON carries two, and they are the missions only in situ instruments.  
   
• EUV (Extreme Ultra-Violet instrument): Built by the University of California at Berkeley to captures images of oxygen glowing in the upper atmosphere, in order to measure the height and density of the daytime ionosphere.
   
• FUV (Far Ultra-Violet instrument): Built by UC Berkeley to capture images of the upper atmosphere in the far ultraviolet light range. At night, FUV measures the density of the ionosphere, tracking how it responds to weather in the lower atmosphere. During the day, FUV measures changes in the chemistry of the upper atmosphere — the source for the charged gases found higher up in space.

360 miles above Earth

ICON orbits about 360 miles above Earth, near the upper reaches of the ionosphere — the region of Earth's atmosphere populated by electrically-charged particles. From this vantage point, ICON combines remote measurements looking down along with direct measurements of the material flowing around it to connect changes throughout this region.

NASA's ICON mission will orbit above the upper atmosphere, through the bottom edge of near-Earth space. Here it will be able to observe how interactions between terrestrial weather and a layer of charged particles called the ionosphere creates changes in the space environment — including bright swaths of color in the atmosphere called airglow.

Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ICON

2 missions working together

NASA's GOLD mission — short for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk — launched aboard a commercial communications satellite on Jan. 25, 2018. From its vantage point in geostationary orbit over Brazil, GOLD gets a full-disk view of the same region of space that ICON studies, helping scientists connect the big picture with the details.

1 gigabit of data per day

Together, ICON's instruments produce and downlink about 1 gigabit of data per day — about 125 megabytes. This adds up to about 1 gigabyte per week. ICON produces 10 different data products, ranging from measurements of wind speeds and ionospheric density to more complex models, that will help scientists shed new light on this ever-changing region. 

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

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el dispensador dice: NO, en otros mundos a nadie se le ocurriría interferir y/o acompañar la órbita de un astro viajero, sea meteorito, sea cometa, o cualquier otra cosa que a los ojos humanos aparece como "vagante"... porque en verdad, no saben de dónde procede ni tampoco hacia dónde se dirige... no saben alrededor de qué centro giran, ni por qué lo hacen... desconocen qué es lo que se afecta y qué es lo que se altera... sin embargo, la soberbia y el empecinamiento humanos los mueve a crear una tecnología diseñada para alcanzar dichos astros y "determinar" qué se les puede sacar (depredar)... para obtener recursos gratuitos que luego puedan ser facturados a los mortales cursando sus destinos... una práctica muy globalizada desde los romanos hacia aquí... en la Tierra todo tiene valor moneda, por consiguiente las ciencias de conveniencias parten de la premisa que en el universo visible todo se compra, todo se vende, todo se coloniza, todo se depreda, y luego, todo se arroja a la basura, tal sucede en el planeta humano, todo el tiempo, desde hace poco más de dos mil años... poco más... poco menos...
en otros mundos habitados por "no humanos" a nadie se le ocurriría interferir con el orden universal... tampoco con el caos eventual vigente en dicho concierto de órdenes matemáticas prolijamente establecidas por alguien en su sano juicio creador... léase, a nadie se le ocurriría sacudir las energías invisibles, para ver qué pasa... o bien, a nadie se le ocurriría interferir con la geometría expuesta a los sentidos, a sabiendas que detrás de ellas (geometrías expuestas), hay otras que no lo son y que poseen mucho más fuerza que las anteriores, pero que, conservada en sus lugares, son inofensivas al todo... y al algo...
pero, extrañamente, la soberbia pseudo científica ha ido ganando el alma humana, y de tanto ganarla la ha ido secando, predisponiendo a esta generación a hacer cualquier cosa con cualquier cosa, incluso poniendo en tela de juicio los "órdenes eventuales" que vaya a saber quién determinó... pero, inmediatamente, algunos asistirán a los foros a rasgarse las vestiduras de la ética rota, al tiempo que otros acudirán a su Dios a pedir clemencia ante las raras "inclemencias" que están envolviendo la Tierra bajo un mal llamado "cambio climático"... 
dicho de otra forma... no queda ética en pié en ninguna de las ciencias de conveniencias, y el humano empecinado todo lo compra y todo lo vende a su antojo, incluyendo en ello sueños, esperanzas, destinos, voluntades, esfuerzos, y cualquier iniciativa que parezca potencialmente "vendible" al mejor postor... total, lo que no pague éste... lo pagará el otro... para inmediatamente descartarlo e ir en busca de un nuevo negocio que sacrifique el humanismo necesario de los otros... nunca el propio, claro está...
además de la inteligencia artificial que va sacrificando la voluntad humana de querer ser... las ciencias de conveniencias sometidas a la esclavitud del poder oculto, van avanzando sobre las capacidades creativas, normalizándolas y sometiéndolas a una curiosa escalada de ignorancias estandarizadas para el adecuado manejo y manipulación del poder que compra y vende almas, entre otras cosas... y curiosamente, ya no hay una rebelión de masas como la de los años sesenta... ya que la pobreza actual ocupa todos los rincones del planeta, y mientras te entretienen con mediatismos, sexos, premios que descalifican la legítima creatividad, y numerosos etcéteras que desbordan estos renglones... y además de pobres generalizados, hay hambre por doquier... y además de ello hay marginación e inequidad... y luego de todo, hay indigencia, aún en aquellos que se creen o se dicen o se asumen "a salvo"...
traducido: la Tierra humana de aquellos lejanos años sesenta... era mucho mejor que ésta... al menos las voluntades no estaban normalizadas, y el pensamiento, por ende, tampoco...
el universo de existencias "no humanas" ve azorado lo que está sucediendo en la Tierra... a sabiendas que jamás es prudente ni tampoco conveniente intervenir en los procesos evolutivos... sin embargo, llegado el caso... lo harán... para conceder prioridad al orden universal, en el que la raza humana está incluido, mal que le pese al poder de los desquicios humanos...
pero... ¿qué pueden hacer?...
las energías no se ven, pero están... los humanos las desconocen... los no humanos las conocen...
agitar una estrella... agitar un conjunto de estrellas cercanas... sería suficiente para alterar el tiempo y el espacio que conforman la "realidad" terrestre... y de pronto, sólo de pronto, el hombre se enfrentaría a un espacio hueco donde no hay suelo, ni cielo, ni aire, ni agua, ni fuego... ¿entonces?, ve meditando en lo que se acerca... porque aunque no lo parezca, ya está demasiado cerca. OCTUBRE 16, 2018.-
en el universo visible todo el orden depende de lo impar... en los universos invisibles, también... 1, 3, 5, 7, 9... superan la comprensión humana del orden de las cosas... porque el hombre mismo es un factor impar de la creación... pero todavía falta mucho para que hombre llegue a comprender el valor de esto que te cuento... 
en el universo no humano, no es octubre... no es 16... no es 2018... ¿entiendes?...

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el dispensador de las energías cósmicas (cuerdas y huecos) - by Cerasale Morteo, Víctor Norberto | Salta | ARGENTINA -  13 de OCTUBRE de 2018 [04] DIEZ AÑOS atravesando el cosmos alquímico... en busca de la piedra filosofal...


el dispensador dice: no, no me alcanza con un Sol... en mi mundo hay muchos más, tantos que jamás oscurece... tantos que la idea jamás se enfría... tantos que el motivo jamás se congela... tantos que las consciencia nunca se pierden... la Tierra es un planeta con pobreza de luz, tanto que se refleja en las almas de las inocencias pendientes... 
en mi mundo el pasado no muere, está siempre latente... no regresa... pero permanece... y todo lo que sucedió alguna vez en él (pasado), sigue ocurriendo en otro plano de una realidad paralela... donde nada se consume y aguarda para ser despejado... porque cada ecuación se corresponde a una generación, y una vez consumada, la generación siguiente se ve expuesta a una nueva búsqueda y consecuentemente, a la necesidad de hallar nuevas respuestas a algo que parecía sabido, quizás aprendido, tal vez superado...
recomienza la duda y con ella, la búsqueda... 
hay una búsqueda individual... pero hay otra generacional... esta última contiene a todas y cada una de las individuales... al modo de un gigantesco rompecabezas que debe ser completado según el primero que llega y el último que se va (de una misma generación)... ese extraño algo que nadie sabe dónde comienza y desconoce cuando concluye... 
a veces los paisajes se ven sostenidos...
a veces esos mismos paisajes se tornan maleables y de tanto se alteran hasta resultar desconocidos...
el ser humano no reconoce a los peregrinos de los siglos... son viajeros atemporales que van atravesando espacios carentes de tiempo... navegan el ayer, el hoy y el mañana con todas sus geometrías... paralelos de variados planos donde todo ocurre más adelante o más atrás de la propia consciencia, concediendo la oportunidad de resolver aquello que no pudo obtener respuesta cuando se creía su momento... hay humanos desesperados por tener respuesta, cuando en verdad, estas repuestas sólo llegan cuando se abre el portal para ser entendidas... nunca se comprende en el antes, como tampoco nunca se comprende en el después... pero el momento de la comprensión no coincide con el deseo y tampoco con la necesidad... 
la rueda enseña ecuaciones que regresan a la biblioteca del mundo de las ideas sin siquiera haber recibido consideración alguna... carencias de consciencia... vacíos de sapiencia... ruptus de voluntades... cansancios de ningún esfuerzo... comodidades... y sobre todo, desidias... cuando el individuo resuelve el bienestar, las ecuaciones que aportan valor al destino y suman al karma quedan arrumbadas en el altillo de las omisiones... y se van marchitando junto con el alma, mientras el espíritu se oxida en la comodidad de un cheque librado sin fondos... que genera deuda inconsciente, donde lo que se hipoteca es justamente el karma...
el ser humano es incapaz de reconocer a los viajeros de todos los espacios... de todas las dimensiones... de los paralelos simultáneos... y su lapso es demasiado efímero para recuperar consciencia del valor de la ecuación que demanda ser despejada... la "x" no tiene más valor que la "y"... y se funden en la vanidad del cinismo o en la soberbia de la hipocresía... el igual no es más que un semejante al que se puede engañar... la divisoria condena al espíritu a ser incapaz de distinguir... y el efecto multiplicador empuja hacia un abismo invisible de supuestos improbables, que de tanto serán imposibles...
la humanidad no entiende las distorsiones cósmicas... y al no hacerlo, se somete a ellas inexorablemente... cuando la eternidad deja de ser palabra para volverse implacablemente hechos...
ya te lo he dicho... en innumerables ocasiones... título no es sinónimo de conocimiento, tampoco de ciencia, mucho menos de sabiduría... título es sinónimo de ego que se va enjuagando en los cinismos de la ventaja que atropellan la consciencia del prójimo, hasta destruirlo, también hasta destruirse... 
ya te lo he dicho... los dinosaurios se comían unos a otros sin cesar... pero el último de ellos (dinosaurio), el más fuerte, el invencible, ése murió de hambre... en la frustración de enfrentarse a sí mismo a sabiendas que no queda nadie a quién echarle la culpa... o lo que es lo mismo, no queda un prójimo a disposición para lavarse la propia consciencia... y entonces... y entonces?... la luz se vuelve tremenda, encandila, ciega, apabulla, minimiza... aterra la soberbia hasta que ésta se evapora... y cuando lo hace, ya no queda existencia para ser, ni tiempo para existir... pero el cosmos que supo contenerte, sigue intacto. OCTUBRE 13, 2018.-
sé que crees que es un palabrerío inútil... te aseguro que no lo es... acepta el desafío de soñarlo...

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el dispensador de las energías cósmicas (cuerdas y huecos) - by Cerasale Morteo, Víctor Norberto | Salta | ARGENTINA -  10 de OCTUBRE de 2018 [03] DIEZ AÑOS atravesando el cosmos alquímico... en busca de la piedra filosofal...


el dispensador dice: ¿cómo estás?, por favor, adelante, pasa, entra y ponte cómodo... no tengo mucho para ofrecerte... ¿café?, ¿té?, ¿mate?... ¿qué quieres tomar?... sí, tal te decía en nuestras conversaciones previas, los premios que se otorgan sólo "premian" el ego de pocos y van en contra de la consciencia de muchos... dicho de otra forma, premian el potencial del negocio y denigran el genio de la raza humana... incluso, discúlpame, priorizan la PAZ como palabra intangible, soslayando que por sus laterales fluye el negocio de las armas y las muertes de inocentes... o bien, se favorece el exterminio a cambio de sostener activas economías que necesitan de ello para llamarse "exitosas"... es que la Tierra carece de vida inteligente... aquí entienden como "inteligente" a lo miserable, a lo mezquino, a lo cínico, e incluso, a lo hipócrita...
los que ganan se aferran a sus egos... los que pierden se sumergen en la necesidad de renovar sus estados de consciencia... para seguir fluyendo de sí mismos...
los que otorgan los premios son, en esencia, miserables que persiguen el seguir protegidos por el "negocio" que los esconde de un conflicto de intereses burlado a ultranza... 
mira, tal te decía días pasados... por qué no le concedieron un Nobel a John Lennon?... vaya que lo merecía... pero ni se les ocurrió... como autor entregó todo y no se llevó nada más que su íntimo estado de consciencia genuina... no pocos se aprovecharon de su genio, y otros tantos de su muerte... ni qué hablar de los que usufructan las monedas de su "humanismo" en do mayor...
en verdad se justifican en que no hay un Nobel para la música... justamente, porque la música les atropella la inmoralidad que los sustenta en sus falsos orgullos... imagínate... disparada la nota supera las barreras atmosféricas y navega por el espacio bajo el precepto universal de difusión... sin límites, sin espacios definidos, eternamente... allí te das cuenta que no puedes evitar lo inevitable, justamente, porque lo inevitable te excede, te supera, y sobre todo, te trasciende, aún cuando a veces te incluya y te haga participar de algo que llegas a creer dominable y "evitable"... ¿comprendes?...
como no soy humano, no me molesta semejante barbarie... pero como existencia, lo considero un atropello a la inteligencia no humana (la universal)...
incluso, te pregunto: ¿por qué no se entrega un Nobel a la poesía?... ya que la poesía es el pensamiento legítimo del humanismo hecho consciencia trascendente... fíjate que entregan un Nobel de literatura que sólo se reduce a despreciar las lenguas humanas... es decir, premian la condición de "best seller", no más que eso... despreciando la "creación literaria" que enaltece a la letra, al símbolo, a la palabra, al término, a la frase, a la oración... la creación literaria traduce el genio humano en diferentes lenguas... una vez más, enalteciendo el humanismo necesario para que todos coexistan en sus existencias paralelas... cada escritor contribuye a agitar el pensamiento armónico de la generación que se transita... al hacerlo no sólo mueve las aguas del ideario humano... contribuye a agregar valor social a la conjunción cósmica de destinos que necesitan sumar a sus karmas aquello que no les ha tocado ni como don ni como talento... es decir, eso que no estuvo contenido en sus gracias concedidas, pero que guardan un inmenso valor para la eternidad que los derrama y para la eternidad que los porta...
el Nobel apenas si promueve la continuidad del negocio... o sea, en esencia es un reconocimiento miserable... desciende desde los conflictos ancestrales del imperio y se derrama sobre elegidos de ocasión, para que sean ejemplo de lo que no deben hacer aquellos que quieren evitar ser sacrificados en sus iniciativas de consciencia y de sapiencia...
me preguntas si hubiese otorgado un Nobel de pintura... pues sí... no a uno solo de los tantos creadores de "ventanales" al espíritu... a todos, porque cada artista expresa aquello que al menos uno de sus prójimos desea ver, para saberse reflejado en su mañana necesario, para saberse incluido en el "sí mismo" de algún otro... 
por eso los nubios daban tanta importancia a los escribas... no por el ideograma en sí mismo, sino por la forma y lo que ella traduce desde el más allá... hacia lo efímero... hacia el aquí que se consume antes que sus protagonistas tomen consciencia de que ya no son...
esta humanidad necesita un Nobel de la pintura y otro de la poesía... pero también de la música, de la escultura, del color y la expresión en cualquiera de sus formas...
te lo digo de otra forma, para que lo pienses... cuando el premio es plano, aporta dinero pero carece de geometría... el dinero se gasta y se consume... nunca alcanza... en cambio, la geometría... no sólo le confiere forma... le da espacio dentro del concierto de la eternidad, entonces, ¿entiendes la diferencia?...
los humanos a los que les sobra ego... se les nota el hueco de consciencia... OCTUBRE 10, 2018.-
nadie es más que su prójimo... ni en el arte ni en la sapiencia.

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el dispensador de las energías cósmicas (cuerdas y huecos) - by Cerasale Morteo, Víctor Norberto | Salta | ARGENTINA -  06 de OCTUBRE de 2018 [02] DIEZ AÑOS atravesando el cosmos alquímico... en busca de la piedra filosofal...


el dispensador dice: ando buscando la piedra filosofal... pero he optado por el camino del alma, ya que he visto que el oro conduce a la codicia pero no al espíritu... desde luego, abundan las codicias que luego se traducen en avaricias, pero hay ausencia de valores espirituales... las gentes están empecinadas en acumular utilitarismos, y se olvidan de vivir... pero como ves, esta humanidad es densa, tanto que está quieta aún cuando crea que se mueve...
no se mueve... está paralizado...
algunos por miedo... otros por espanto... otros por carencia de voluntad... otros por falta de motivos... otros porque están reñidos con el esfuerzo... sí, como puedes apreciar, sobra la obsecuencia y desbordan las ausencias... aún cuando parezca que están presentes... cuerpo no es sinónimo de contenido, como mirada no lo es de talento... así como don no es sinónimo de gracia... y lo que esta humanidad anda desperdiciando son las gracias concedidas, jamás sembradas, nunca recogidas...
hay mucho ruido que emerge de todos los rincones de la Tierra... 
ruido, dije... no música...
hay mucho pentagrama lapidado... y las gentes andan aturdidas por sus tormentas y sus deficiencias de razonamiento crítico... ya te dije, con ojos viendo, no ven... con oídos dispuestos, no escuchan... no atienden lo que les pasa, entonces no aprenden...
creo que es porque el aprendizaje ya no se corresponde con la inspiración... 
hay mucho letra para escasa poesía... ¿no te parece?...
insisto, han concedido el Nobel de la Paz... dos personas en sus luchas... pero la PAZ en la TIERRA sólo se reduce a palabra, a término... luego se transforma en ilusión, e inmediatamente en utopía, justamente, porque antes que la PAZ está el negocio de la guerra, y es allí donde se destaca la miseria humana que se eleva desde los espíritus vacíos hacia el cosmos distante... léase, dan el premio a unos pocos que distan de ser afortunados... los ponen en el tapete, para luego seguir vendiendo armas que asesinan destinos a cambio de codicias de pocos... entonces, los premiados no son más que víctimas de un sistema perverso que hace que el mañana de los otros sea algo inaccesible...
como te digo, la violencia no es más que un negocio que desciende como ejemplo desde los cinismos, las intolerancias, las discriminaciones que indican que además de una grieta humana, hay fisuras sociales que promueven las distancias mediante el sembrado de conflictos que, a su vez, favorecen los negocios de las divergencias... asegurando que las coincidencias sean minimizadas... anuladas... luego extinguidas...
¿terminará esto alguna vez?... no en el concierto de la estupidez humana... como te dije, el cinismo aflora por los poros... y lo demás, apenas es hipocresía de partes...
así, no hay tribu que valga...
cambiará el día que se vuelva al pensamiento egipcio original... el de las pirámides que no son egipcias... cuando los humanos eran pocos y los portadores extranjeros eran muchos... entonces se hacían desfiles de "saberes"... dando relevancia a la medida del codo o de la mano... concediendo valor al eje perpendicular... estableciendo la deriva del plano inclinado... o la importancia de la escuadra... sí, consta en los papiros más antiguos, desfiles de las artes y los escribas... la importancia del ideograma... el silencio de la pintura... la fluencia del tejido... la latencia del acorde... había algo así como un diapasón del pensamiento del que emergía el mañana inesperado, como motivo de continuidad... 
curiosamente, lo mismo sucedía entre las culturas andinas... desfiles de amautas exhibiendo la significancia del pensamiento potencial en busca de la cinética social...
no, no hay Nobel de la música como no lo hay de la pintura, y hete allí la tragedia de esta humanidad... no hay Nobel de la escultura ni del pensamiento inspirador... porque esta humanidad se ha marchitado en sus propios desiertos, no los de arena, sino los del alma... y de esos, querido amigo, no hay regreso... OCTUBRE 06, 2018.-
CADA idea es una semilla... si el suelo (espíritu) no es propicio... jamás brotará... y si lo hace, a pesar de todo, dará frutos enfermos... 

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el dispensador de las energías cósmicas (cuerdas y huecos) - by Cerasale Morteo, Víctor Norberto | Salta | ARGENTINA -  03 de OCTUBRE de 2018 [01] DIEZ AÑOS atravesando el cosmos alquímico... en busca de la piedra filosofal...


el dispensador dice:  ¿ves bien la pintura?, no sólo los colores... las formas, digo... ¿se asemeja en tu pensamiento a la Tierra que te contiene?... pues bien, puede que sea, también puede que no... ¿sabes?... siempre he pensado que es una pena que a nadie se le haya ocurrido otorgar un Nobel a la música... que a nadie se le haya ocurrido otorgar un Nobel al pensamiento filosófico... a la geometría del pensamiento... a la matemática del pensamiento... que a nadie se le haya ocurrido otorgar un Nobel a aquel que descubre el valor de las esencias "esenciales"... o bien, que a nadie se le haya ocurrido otorgar un Nobel a aquel que ensaya la búsqueda de las fuentes genuinas del espíritu en el pensamiento social... eso sí que sería un verdadero hallazgo... porque al fin y al cabo, el Nobel proviene de un hallazgo nefasto que, transformado en negocio, sirvió (y sigue sirviendo) para destruir el "humanismo necesario" que se vincula directamente con el futuro de la raza humana... y el premio como tal, se provee a cultores de la investigación que mueve el negocio que favorece a pocos para luego vender (y someter) a muchos necesitados de soluciones que rara vez llegan con "entidad social"... 
léase, alguien se favorece mucho... al tiempo que los demás se ven atados a seguir favoreciendo a esos mismos pocos... 
la luz existe desde y hacia la eternidad, sin embargo para el ser humano es un negocio monumental que habilita a que el poder se erija como propietario e "inventor" de ella, desconociendo que ha existido desde siempre y para siempre, desde que la creación separó la luz de las tinieblas...
el dolor y el sufrimiento humanos están naturalizados como parte de otro negocio monumental, y algo que debería ser social, sirve para que pocos acumulen fortunas a cambio de los padeceres de los otros que intentan recuperar salud a cambio de pagar por ello... y encima las soluciones se premian porque contribuyen a agigantar el negocio que exacerbará las inequidades...
más allá, no se premia la escultura... no se premia la letra sino el negocio literario, dejándose de costado los profundos valores de la lengua, no sólo la española o la anglosajona, sino la lengua como expresión moral y corporal... el Nobel captura el negocio literario y lo enaltece para que sigue creciendo como tal, no más que eso... recordándole a quien quiera o a quien sea, que la pólvora bien vale una vida, más de una vida, muchas vidas... justamente, porque en la muerte reside el negocio...
no es lo único... no hay un Nobel para ningún valor que no se traduzca en negocio... entonces llegas a la conclusión de que el premio en sí mismo carece de valor, y al hacerlo, también desprecia a los humanismos que enaltecen al ser humano en el ejercicio del pensamiento social...
¿sabes?...
el Sol libera energías temibles que a su vez generan vientos cósmicos... diariamente la Tierra se ve envuelta por dichos vientos, que además de cósmicos, son magnéticos, y que además de magnéticos producen cambios invisibles en la química terrestre... el hombre es incapaz de lidiar con semejantes fuerzas... pero hay más...
cada estrella en cada galaxia hace lo propio, generando remolinos que circulan dentro de una misma galaxia, alterando el "todo" para sostener un "orden" que se organiza más allá del "ser humano propietario", ése que se asume como dueño pero que no tiene capacidad para tenderle la mano a su prójimo, en su condición de "tan efímero como él"... pero hay más...
todas las estrellas en todo el universo visible hacen lo propio, generando torbellinos de los que los seres humanos son inconscientes... las energías fluyen al modo de mareas, pero nadie sabe de dónde provienen y hacia dónde van... qué implican ni qué significan... sin embargo, todo sigue en armonía y el humano duerme y despierta creyendo que se trata de su día, único, justificado en la intencionalidad que lo viste y lo desviste... ¿viste?...
las mareas cósmicas van de un lado al otro del universo, donde nadie sabe dónde quedan las orillas (márgenes)... y dicho pensamiento supremo se extravía una y otra vez sin recibir premio alguno, porque no hay tiempo para considerarlo... ya que no se traduce en negocio... entonces la luz universal se factura... tanto como el agua... el aire o el suelo... no así el fuego, porque en el fondo, el hombre no puede dominarlo... como domina ninguna de las fuerzas magnéticas del propio planeta que lo contiene...
la vegetación global siempre fue global... y nunca necesitó del ser humano para ser selva o bosque... por el contrario, el ser humano ha sido capaz de arrasar tanto con la selva como con el bosque, que existieron desde... que la propia humanidad fuera traída a la Tierra en total estado de indefensión...
el Nobel necesario al humanismo en estado puro (¿elemental?) no se entrega... ya que el humano se cree propietario del pensamiento tanto como de la palabra... pero en la creación, libre y gratuita, nada pertenece a nadie, o si quiere el inverso, nadie es dueño de nada, ya que apenas si te lo prestan por un rato...
¿pretendes pertenecer a una humanidad más justa?... seguramente sí...
no cultives la vida propia a partir del negocio... porque justamente el negocio es lo que consume lo esencial de la vida... y lo que para tí puede representar años terrestres de vida (50, 60, 70, 80, 90 años)... en el cosmos no es más que un destello imperceptible... ¿entonces?, dado lo imperceptible de tu condición, no alientes ni te sustentes en el valor de la moneda... porque cuando te vayas, sólo serás valorado por la calidad de tu espíritu, por la condición de tu consciencia, y por el peso de tu alma... OCTUBRE 03, 2018.-
en el espacio sideral... valen los silencios, no la venta de las palabras...

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Annapoorna Devi's life was one of musical brilliance, self-imposed solitude

S Gopalakrishnan

The Notes Won’t Fade

When she told her official biographer that there were many things to write about her father and little about herself, she, to me, was trying to explain that a recluse’s life would not offer direct meanings, unlike her Baba who had a sociable life along with 80 years of artistic expression.

Written by S Gopalakrishnan | Updated: October 17, 2018 1:30:05 am

Annapurna Devi passes away.

Annapoorna Devi’s life, as it endures in people’s mindscapes, is layered with ambiguities and meanings, reminding one of the famous Pablo Picasso saying, “everything you can imagine is real”. Her music, like her life, or any piece of classical art, accommodates ambiguities, but still remains real. Roshanara Khan, born in 1927 at Maihar, a former princely state of British India, now in Madhya Pradesh, carried in her nine decade-long life at least two legacies of her celebrated father: The nuances of the Maihar Gharana and the elements of an austere life.

When she told her official biographer that there were many things to write about her father and little about herself, she, to me, was trying to explain that a recluse’s life would not offer direct meanings, unlike her Baba who had a sociable life along with 80 years of artistic expression. The Maihar Gharana, founded by Baba Allauddin Khan (1862-1972), Annapoorna’s father, had gifted many maestros to Hindustani classical music. This happened, undoubtedly, because of an incomparable taleem (teaching style) developed by the genius ascetic in Indian music, Allauddin Khan. When a 20-year-old Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, accompanied by his dancer brother Uday Shankar, walked into the house of Allauddin Khan in 1940, Khan Saheb’s second daughter, Roshanara, was 13 years old. Since then, till October 13, her life has seen a unique, almost hallowed blend of worldviews — the companionship of a man of unending festivity, Pandit Ravi Shankar, even as she remained her austere Baba’s daughter.

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, celebrated sarodia, and Annapoorna’s brother, once said of her music vis-à-vis the other disciples of Allauddin Khan, “Put Ravi Shankar, Pannalal (flautist Pannalal Ghosh) and me on one side and put Annapoorna on the other, and yet, her side of the scale will be heavier.” But the saddest part remains, as in a Greek tragedy, that the foremost musician’s art was not heard by anyone. When we celebrate her life, we celebrate the unheard and the unknown, and hence, always leave room for fiction. As Picasso said, everything you can imagine is real.

Guru Ma, as Annapoorna was known in her later life, was a distinguished teacher — considered to be one of the outstanding gurus in Hindustani music. That aspect of her life, and select few recordings that are available, are the only quantifiable things that exist as markers to understand her artistic contributions. While writing this article, I was listening to the much-celebrated 1972 album — a jugalbandi in sitar and sarod by Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. It has a beautiful rendering of Manj Khamaj. On the internet, we can listen to a track of Annapoorna rendering the same raga on Surbahar, recorded by the late Vaidu Sanyal from a concert held at Ranji Stadium, Kolkata, in December 1953. Though my exposure to the nuances of Maihar is limited, I listen to a much poised, non-ornamental rendition by Annapoorna, unequivocally reminiscent of Allauddin Khan’s meditative music.

On the morning of May 15, 1941, Roshanara Khan converted to Hinduism. The same evening she was married according to Hindu rites to Ravi Shankar. He was 20 and she was 14 when she became Annapoorna.  In the 1950s, the husband-wife duo gave a live Surbahar performance in Delhi and Annapoorna mentioned later that, after the concert, people started congratulating her more, ignoring Ravi Shankar. Annapoorna went on clarifying to her husband that such a comparison happened just because he was playing the Surbahar and not Sitar, though his ego was already hurt. According to Annapoorna, to save her marriage, she took a vow to never perform in public again.

But Ravi Shankar has always had another version of the event to offer. As he started giving more and more solo performances, she developed an issue — she always wanted him to perform with her on stage. The reason, he says, is that she lost confidence in her solo performances. However, history might indicate that the main reason for the rift in their marriage was Ravi Shankar’s new-found fascination for dancer Kamala Shastri. The saga called Annapoorna is over. Many biographies of illustrious lives in Indian music have been told, but nothing was like hers, a melancholic one but with lots of grace.

The writer, a Malayalam author, works as content head of Radio Mango, Dubai

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Northern Irish writer Anna Burns wins 2018 Booker Prize for ‘Milkman’

'Milkman', a coming of age story of a young woman's affair with a married man set in the political troubles of Northern Ireland, was named the winner at a lavish awards ceremony here on Tuesday night.

By: PTI | London | Updated: October 17, 2018 7:00:14 am

Writer Anna Burns smiles after she was presented with the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018 by Britain’s Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall during the prize’s 50th year at the Guildhall in London. (Reuters)

Author Anna Burns has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel ‘Milkman’, becoming the first author from Northern Ireland to win the most prestigious English-language literary award.

Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast, is the 17th woman to bag the award in its 49-year history and the first woman since 2013. It was her third novel.

‘Milkman’, a coming of age story of a young woman’s affair with a married man set in the political troubles of Northern Ireland, was named the winner at a lavish awards ceremony here on Tuesday night. “None of us has ever read anything like this before. Anna Burns’ utterly distinctive voice challenges conventional thinking and form in surprising and immersive prose,” said Kwame Anthony Appiah, the chair of the 2018 judging panel.

“It is a story of brutality, sexual encroachment and resistance threaded with mordant humour. Set in a society divided against itself, ‘Milkman’ explores the insidious forms oppression can take in everyday life,” he said.

The recipient of the Man Booker Prize gets 52,500 pounds (USD 69,223 or Rs 50.85 lakh).

Burns, who lives in East Sussex in England, saw off competition from two British writers, two American writers and one Canadian writer. Set in an unnamed city, ‘Milkman’ focuses on a “middle sister” as she navigates her way through rumour, social pressures and politics in a tight-knit community.

Burns shows the dangerous and complex impact on a woman coming of age in a city at war. Unusually, in the book, the characters have designations rather than names. Burns explains: “The book didn’t work with names. It lost power and atmosphere and turned into a lesser — or perhaps just a different — book. “In the early days I tried out names a few times, but the book wouldn’t stand for it. The narrative would become heavy and lifeless and refuse to move on until I took them out again. Sometimes the book threw them out itself”.

Her novel beat competition from ‘Everything Under’ by Daisy Johnson, who, at 27, was the youngest nominee in the Man Booker prize history.

The other nominees were ‘The Long Take’ by Robin Robertson, ‘Washington Black’ by Esi Edugyan, ‘The Mars Room’ by Rachel Kushner, and ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers. ‘Milkman’ is published by Faber & Faber, making it the fourth consecutive year the prize has been won by an independent publisher. Burns’ win was announced by Kwame Anthony Appiah at a dinner at London’s Guildhall. She was presented with a trophy by Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and a 50,000 pounds cheque by Luke Ellis, Chief Executive of Man Group.

The winning author also receives a designer bound edition of her book and a further 2,500 pounds for being short-listed.

“We are honoured to support the Man Booker Prize for the sixteenth year, as it continues in its fiftieth year to champion literary excellence and the power of the novel on a global scale,” Ellis said. Appiah, a British-born Ghanaian-American novelist, was joined on the 2018 judging panel by crime writer Val McDermid; cultural critic Leo Robson; feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose; and artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton. The judges considered 171 submissions for this year’s prize

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Happy Durga Ashtami 2018 Wishes Images, Photos, Pics, Quotes, Wallpaper, SMS, Messages, Status: While each day has its own significance, the eighth day or Maha Ashtami is considered as the most auspicious. This year, it falls on October 17.

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Happy Durga Ashtami 2018 Wishes: Don’t miss out on wishing your friends and family. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Happy Durga Ashtami 2018 Wishes Images, Photos, Pics, Quotes, Wallpaper, SMS, Messages, Status: Durga Puja is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated Hindu festivals.The five-day celebration is marked by unending revelry and celebrates the triumph of good over evil. While each day has its own significance, the eighth day or Maha Ashtami is considered as the most auspicious. This year, it falls on October 17.

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To make sure you don’t miss out on wishing your friends and family, we have put together images and messages that you can send on the occasion of Maha Ashtami.

On Maha Ashtami, a strict diet is maintained by devotees all across the globe, some even observe fast. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

* Durga Puja is a blessed time
Rejoice in the glories of Maa Durga
Celebrate all the blessings of the Goddess
With your friends, family and acquaintances
Happy Durga Ashtami.

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The day of Maha Ashtami begins with Mahasnan and Shodashopachar Puja. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

* May the blessings of Goddess Durga
shine on you and all your prayers be granted
on this Durga Ashtami.

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Nine pots with nine different forms of goddess Durga are worshipped on Maha Ashtami. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

* Nine evenings of party and prayer,
May Maa always keep you in Her,
May all your problems leave you,
Praise her each Navratri Day.
Happy Durga Ashtami.

Kumari Puja, that involves worshipping unmarried young girls, are also observed in different parts of India on Maha Ashtami. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

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* May this auspicious day bring prosperity and joy,
The atmosphere is filled with love and happiness,
Therefore, I wish you a great Maha Ashtami!

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On the evening of Maha Ashtami, Sandhi Puja is done. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

* Happy Maha Ashtami!

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It is generally believed that the last 24 minutes of Ashtami and the first 24 minutes of Navami are extremely auspicious. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

* Let the festive spirit embrace you and your dear ones on this special occasion.
Wishing you a happy Maha Ashtami!

On Maha Ashtami, delectable bhogs are prepared. This is carried on for Navami and Dashami. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

* May this auspicious day bring prosperity and joy,
The atmosphere is filled with love and happiness,
Therefore, I wish you a great Maha Ashtami!

Count your blessings this Ashtami. (Designed by Rajan Sharma)

May Goddess Durga eliminate all your vices and brings happiness to you and fill your life with joy and prosperity.
Warm wishes on Ashtami!

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