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Lahooti Sessions Live*

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They say indigenous musicians. They say Pakistan. It was some day that I sat at my mother’s place for tea and switched on the TV for Indies. The screen had ‘Mai Dhai’ and ‘The Sketches’ singing in the most abstract Rajasthani-Peshawari Hindi collaboration. That normal ‘hai’ was ‘haain’. I just couldn’t change he channel for them. The song read ‘Mann Moriya’. Having known ‘Mai Dhai’ from Coke Studio, the hashtag #LiveLahootiSessions became a curiosity. As always, google searches are the best way out. This ‘Lohooti Session’ was huge! For folks who haven't heard the epic scores, here is the YouTube link : https://www.youtube.com/user/lahootilivesessions Shor-e-tufan-e-hawa hai, be-aman sunte raho.

AISE KAISE!!

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10th October, 2015: Dad is on leave and "beti ki shaadi karao" wave pressure is hitting high wavelengths. The true Indian mom: Sab ko naa, sab ko naa!! Kab tak humare upar bojh bane rahoge? Shaadi toh karni hi padegi. Aaj shaam ko ladka aa raha hai dekhne, aap yeh sab natak karke humari izzat mat uchhalo. Phalane Phalane logo ne bhi shaadi nahin ki, dekhi hai unki haalat abhi? (Tears following the melodramatic convincing) A true Indian dad: Beta, don't behave like that. You are educated and grown up. I expect you to handle things in a better way. A true Indian daughter who feels marriage isn't her cup of tea: In logo ko time kaise mil jata hai aise ladkiyo ko dekhne ka? Aap logo ko bhi bada interest hai ladkiya dikhane ka. Jiska jo hona hai ho. I know what I want to do with my life. Aur yeh shaam ko jo aa rahe hai, aane do unko, batati hu. Idhar kya koi "antique shop" khulva rakhi hai ki log aaye aur antiques dekhe aur reviews deke nilami kare? Th...

Denial? Is that what?

You are conscious, semi-conscious and comatose. My insanity of thoughts definitely has a swirling impact on you. I am curious. Why do you reciprocate with such sanity, when there is none? None.

Masaan

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Lemniscate is our fate and so are the certain arcs that frame us together in a loop, infinitely.  The first scene of the movie moans the life to emotions of Devi. Indeed, making love is an art and the curiosity of all the senses within us proposes it all. Vulgar is the way the world accepts it. Vulgar is the notion when it is not bound to commitment. Vulgar it is when it is made public. Vulgarity lies in the secrecy of it. It was love, undeclared. It was love, that died. The sensibility of portraying sexual encounter is so intact that it galvanizes the awkwardness felt by a couple when they make love for the first time, in close association to reality. The morality of cheap thoughts emerges when it is spitted on the character of Devi, "tumhari zindagi toh condemn ho gayi" after the police intrudes in their private space and films her nude.  As the plot progresses, the sheer simplicity expressed by Deepak as he falls in love with Shaalu takes us along to a diff...

AARAKSHAN aur ANDOLAN..

WHAT IS RESERVATION? Reservation is a quota-based affirmative action which is governed by constitutionall laws, statutory laws, and local rules and regulations. Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) are the primary beneficiaries of the reservation policies under the constitution. A 21 years old affluent and influential face that has emerged as a powerful weapon of mass upheaval, is named Hardik Patel. Through a moustache on that young face and the rage in his eyes, I am surely supporting the cause of his leadership qualities which is capable enough to assemble a crowd of 25 lacs, stand on a stage and challenge the political system, let cause massive burn-out of public property, political figures and government servants by an arrest. Some might oppose me here with, "He is just the face and real game is being played elsewhere." I exalt, "It takes a lot to just be a face, in such situations."  On my political understanding, this...

COLOSSAL..

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They were. He loved her hands, much beyond astonishment. He loved her feet, much beyond splendid exceptions. She hated him, for everything that was not. She loved him, for all that counts unusual on a strong bond. There was passion that was not bound to the pleasures of the Cubist aesthetics. There were emotions to never depart, without the allegiance of thoughts. Still, they were. They were, eternal. Eliciting awe.

HADOUKEN..

On the realm and thrust of musical energies, we can evoke life to the speed of our neural transmission through synapse, constructive damage caused on impact, amount of recovery framed in our id-ego-superego, and sometimes the range of loneliness. Trance: Acid, electro, dream,, psychedelic, progressive, futurepop, hard, goa, neo, uplifting, vocal and trances fusions. Blues: Afro, classic, bluegrass, british, country, contemporary, dirty, electric, Memphis, soul and R&B. Dayum, Hadouken.