Digitally Exploring the world

Came across this version of the theme song from one of my favourite film 'Zorba the Greek' by a famous blind guitarist Jose Feliciano. Check his other videos in the related section of this video. He is just unbelievable !! The video took me back to old times when I was inducted into the world of musical instruments by an elderly gentlemen, who would come over to our house every week with his big ferocious Alsatian. I was six at that time and was more interested in being outdoor playing than having a tryst with a musical instrument and singling along. Nevertheless, I was inducted into the wonderful musical world rather reluctantly but thanks to the wonderfully talent blind teacher of mine and the fear of his big black friend, I did get a footing into Indian Classical music. We were transferred out of town after 3years and I never got back to learning Indian Classical music from another teacher but somehow this video reminded me of him. He must have been around 50 those days, ...

I received a message yesterday from someone whom i had known 28years back to the tune " 28years back i use to give you ride on my little bicycle in a place surrounded by mountains and covered by flowers everywhere. From my memories i can still visualise your little hands filled with mud but i just can't remember your face neither your voice. Its funny how we remember things in life !!" I was a bit surprised to receive this message since my memory doesn't go so far back in time. However it took me back to those lovely child hood days to the small town Jamalpur, in Bihar where I spent my initial growing years. If i look back it seems like a place tucked away in time. We were staying in an old Bungalow with tiled roof, with hills as the backdrop and a wonderful garden all around thanks to my mum. We also had a big playground right in front of our house. Our times were spent in the garden and around the place, playing with friends, cycling, sometimes climbing up the tree...

Blistering barnacles! Thundering Typhoons.. Remember the school days especially it use to be around this time of the year, summer holidays, with exams over and with all the time to kill, one would go searching for tintin . How I reminiscience those days and the joy of discovering another adventure of tintin, snowy , Captain Haddock, Thompson twins and waiting to get hold of another of the books. These comics were too expensive too buy those days and so we would wait for it to get back to the library or strike a deal with a friend who owned one to borrow it for a day. It was only last week when my young cousins -Ruskin and Rahul (Ruskin who's only 9, incase you are wondering about the name yeah he's got his from Ruskin.Bond but he is Ruskin.Iyer, quite a uncommon one!! ) cameover to my place for their summer vacations and I rediscovered it again after a long long time . The comics were out of the bookshelves, the animated cds came out. Its nice to step back in time when I was ...

Enjoy! Remember waiting for this every evening in the good old days of DD