Anthology
Saturday, March 15, 2008 by Shreyas
1. Nadsat and Newspeak
Appy-Polly-Loggies for not updating this space for a very long time. It's all because of the cliched time constraint which I never wanted to mention. Have been spending the time watching lots of movies, hanging out with droogs and the new timepass swimming.More often than not, the English language gets stylized with new advent of slangs and a mix of fictional languages. Most of the times, novels are the birthplaces of such phenomenon. One is Newspeak, a double plus good imagination by George Orwell in his great novel 1984. The other one which I came across recently is Nadsat, which has lots of Russian interjections, first popularized by Anthony Burgess in his novel 'A Clockwork Orange' which was later made into a great movie by Stanley Kubrick. Beyond linguistic intricacies, one more concept popularized is Ultraviolence or excessive unjustified violence which has links with aestheticization of the same brought out in many art forms. Nowadays people around me are speaking a certain language - Straight line method, Porter's Framework and activity based costing which am trying to decode badly.
2. Swimming in deep
Yeah, most of us would have waddled into the swimming pool some day or the other. So have I, but till this time I had been splashing in the shallow half, taking extreme care, not to accidentally wade into the deep areas. I believe lots of us fall into this category. Some even pick up swimming, but still are unsure of getting into the deep. How to break this barrier? There are a few tricks which help you do this, let me tell you which one worked for me. These are not to be followed just like that, these might be dangerous and do it with someone who can save you incase some mishap happens. Get into the deep side of the pool(unless you do this, you'll never swim in deep), hold the side rim. The idea is to give a push, reach the bottom of the pool, touch the floor with your legs, then come up. Do this some five times. While going in, give a push, hold straight, hands up, hold your breath, don't panic you'll get in automatically. Once you hit the ground, give a gentle push off the feet, keep your arms sideways, push the water down (palms face the bottom of the pool), slightly move your legs and you should automatically come up. Do this is in 9-10 feet. Once you do this often, you kick the fear out of your mind that you'll sleep in a watery grave and that whatever happens, you can atleast damn well come up. This should remove 70% of the fear of swimming in deep. After this you can move a little bit away from the rim and try the same, and then try cycling in water which would come intuitively. After this, there is one more step, standing near the edge of the pool, jump into the water feet first - this is the same as the previous exercise, just that the force is provided by jumping instead of pushing off the rim and come up the same way, swim to safety. That's it - this should make you break the cherry of getting into the deep.
3. Sahana
She is beautiful, she is awesome and she can make your day. She exemplifies pathos, brings out the love and moves your soul. If you haven't met her, it's high time you did it. I can say she was my first love in the music world and that's what she stands for. Technically she took birth in the family of Harikambodhi the 28th Melakartha and goes like this - s r g m p m d n s| s n d p m g m r g r s. That's Sahana - one of the beautiful ragas in Carnatic music. AR Rahman made a good use of it in the song "Azhagae Sugama" from the movie - Parthale Paravasam. The situation where the song comes fits beautifully in the context set by the raga itself. The song comes when Madhavan and Simran split up and both feel the suffering of love tearing their hearts apart. It would be criminal not to mention K Balachander's direction and the choice of the song in this regard. He himself seems to be a lover of Sahana - he made a serial with the same name and the title song is also in the same raga. "Parthen rasithen, pakkam vara thudithen" is another film song based out of this. To get a feel of it, listen to the great composition "Ii vasudha" by Thiagrajar and rendered amazingly by Veenai Doraiswami Iyengar available in this link :http://surasa.net/music/tyagaraja/.
Appy-Polly-Loggies for not updating this space for a very long time. It's all because of the cliched time constraint which I never wanted to mention. Have been spending the time watching lots of movies, hanging out with droogs and the new timepass swimming.More often than not, the English language gets stylized with new advent of slangs and a mix of fictional languages. Most of the times, novels are the birthplaces of such phenomenon. One is Newspeak, a double plus good imagination by George Orwell in his great novel 1984. The other one which I came across recently is Nadsat, which has lots of Russian interjections, first popularized by Anthony Burgess in his novel 'A Clockwork Orange' which was later made into a great movie by Stanley Kubrick. Beyond linguistic intricacies, one more concept popularized is Ultraviolence or excessive unjustified violence which has links with aestheticization of the same brought out in many art forms. Nowadays people around me are speaking a certain language - Straight line method, Porter's Framework and activity based costing which am trying to decode badly.
2. Swimming in deep
Yeah, most of us would have waddled into the swimming pool some day or the other. So have I, but till this time I had been splashing in the shallow half, taking extreme care, not to accidentally wade into the deep areas. I believe lots of us fall into this category. Some even pick up swimming, but still are unsure of getting into the deep. How to break this barrier? There are a few tricks which help you do this, let me tell you which one worked for me. These are not to be followed just like that, these might be dangerous and do it with someone who can save you incase some mishap happens. Get into the deep side of the pool(unless you do this, you'll never swim in deep), hold the side rim. The idea is to give a push, reach the bottom of the pool, touch the floor with your legs, then come up. Do this some five times. While going in, give a push, hold straight, hands up, hold your breath, don't panic you'll get in automatically. Once you hit the ground, give a gentle push off the feet, keep your arms sideways, push the water down (palms face the bottom of the pool), slightly move your legs and you should automatically come up. Do this is in 9-10 feet. Once you do this often, you kick the fear out of your mind that you'll sleep in a watery grave and that whatever happens, you can atleast damn well come up. This should remove 70% of the fear of swimming in deep. After this you can move a little bit away from the rim and try the same, and then try cycling in water which would come intuitively. After this, there is one more step, standing near the edge of the pool, jump into the water feet first - this is the same as the previous exercise, just that the force is provided by jumping instead of pushing off the rim and come up the same way, swim to safety. That's it - this should make you break the cherry of getting into the deep.
3. Sahana
She is beautiful, she is awesome and she can make your day. She exemplifies pathos, brings out the love and moves your soul. If you haven't met her, it's high time you did it. I can say she was my first love in the music world and that's what she stands for. Technically she took birth in the family of Harikambodhi the 28th Melakartha and goes like this - s r g m p m d n s| s n d p m g m r g r s. That's Sahana - one of the beautiful ragas in Carnatic music. AR Rahman made a good use of it in the song "Azhagae Sugama" from the movie - Parthale Paravasam. The situation where the song comes fits beautifully in the context set by the raga itself. The song comes when Madhavan and Simran split up and both feel the suffering of love tearing their hearts apart. It would be criminal not to mention K Balachander's direction and the choice of the song in this regard. He himself seems to be a lover of Sahana - he made a serial with the same name and the title song is also in the same raga. "Parthen rasithen, pakkam vara thudithen" is another film song based out of this. To get a feel of it, listen to the great composition "Ii vasudha" by Thiagrajar and rendered amazingly by Veenai Doraiswami Iyengar available in this link :http://surasa.net/music/tyagaraja/.
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