Aruna Sairam Concert in NJ

After a long time I was able to attend a concert. She and her accompaniments (Vaidhyanathan on mridangam and Baskar on Violin) gave pretty good performance, her matching necklace with silk sari and the single diamond bracelet on the hand she uses for Alabanai didn't go unnoticed either.

The concert had good variety, reaching its peak during the Raagam thaanam Pallavi performance. If the one in memory of Mummoorthygal was the highlight, this was one of her concerts without Thillana! Baskar did a wonderful job with Violin, it literally spoke when she sang "Vishamk Krishnan...". While Vaidhyanathan like Ilayaraja had a separate music for each and every person name(appar, sundarar, thaayumanavar...) in the song "Eppadi paadinaro..."

Though I'm not used to hearing Abangs & Bajans, the selection was a good mix of Keerthans, Abangs, Bajans & Tamil songs. Overall this was a memorable one for its Raagam thaanam Pallavi.

Karunanidhi and our Heritage

Time and Time again Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi has proven that he really hates our heritage and will do everything to destroy our culture. The Indian culture is age old and is well thought out by our forefathers. The current western generation may be ahead of their counterparts in the East (India) in life style and scientific developments but they were pretty much in stone age during our forefathers era. By the time was sentenced to death for proposing that Earth was round, thousands of years back our forefathers have established not only that the Earth is round, but also the myriad astronomical calculations. Is he saying that these folks are stupid or is he?
So Karunanidhi thinking that he is stupid and so is his father and his father. Well he has every right to think however low of himself he wants, but he doesn't have the right to say the same thing about his and our forefathers. There is a reason for everything that is laid out including the New year. If we don't know something then the best way is to learn it and the easy way is to ridicule it. Well, He has chose the later.

Looks like there are no leaders available in TamilNadu.

Oh GOD! Please restore sanity to the leaders of TamilNadu.

Couple of Books

Who is your City? By Richard Florida. Businessweek has mentioned that this as a contrast to "The world is Flat" By Friedman.
The art of Woo- G.Richard Shell & Mario Moussa. I read part of this book and this is really good, states you a step by step approach to convince others on your views. The first explanation for "WOO" caught my attention - Winning Others Over. A good one to read