The Young India

Puneet Gupta

I have not met Puneet. I know him from his ‘newsletter days’; he would invite original poems and stories and publish them on to a web jornal. Here he is, creating something new. His maiden theatre production. We wish him success and innovation. – Kartikey Sehgal 

Puneet writes:

Trained to be an engineer from IIT (Delhi, India) and University of Maryland (USA), I never imagined that my life would take such a journey with arts. Though I was creative, the focus somehow …

Ananth Venkatesh

I profess that there is immense admiration and fascination in me for Hinduism and for the many divinities that epitomize this faith.

The sacred books such as the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita and many others provide this religion with its seductively cerebral foundations. The duration of the survival of these pious treatises illustrates their attachment to the psychology and mentality of the Indian State.

The gorgeousness of Hindu treatises is that their applicabilities is not confined to the Hindus alone. Sage standpoints are …

Shaival Thakkar

“India, on an average is a country which denies people the right to love. But love explodes on the screen.”

- Indian Cinema class notes, SAA, JNU

Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting

Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting

I might have missed out on some ‘ting tings’ but basically, this is the sound of Shahrukh Khan pretending to play a romantic hook on his mandolin and giving cheesy looks to …

Kartikey Sehgal

This is the working/first poster of ‘Vide’, a forthcoming film in English. The film is about the life of a church musician.

Participants include Manoj G Nigli as director, Kartikey Sehgal as actor and Christopher Masand as music director.

We wish for its sucessful completion.

To sum up this note:

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.“ – said Walt Whitman…

but added that, “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light …

Kartikey Sehgal

 Here is a gift. Selected works of ‘Father of the Symphony’, Joseph Haydn. These are my selections  from his 106 symphonies. This man made many, many symphonies.

 Music fans have complained that Haydn is boring and ‘repetitive’. He wrote for the court and for  entertainment. He wrote so that the princes and the common man could identify and move along and  not be challenged or shocked. ‘But’ he also composed masterpieces that remind you of the style of  Mozart and Beethoven, who had …

Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal

The author’s face is obscured by Dev Anand’s glass. To the right is composer-singer S D Burman

He was a classmate of our Air Force commander. So, whenever he was anywhere around the place Air Marshal Rajaram was posted at, Dev Anand would invariably make it a point to meet. That is when I met him at ‘Air Force Station Hindon’. Seeing him in flesh, holding a glass of whisky in his lanky hands and cheering to you was a scenario …

Kartikey Sehgal

My vocals for the song ‘Goriye Ho Meri Raniye Ho’ (alongwith Seema Sehgal) from the album “Tale of a Virgin River”. 
 
Singers: Seema Sehgal & Kartikey Sehgal 
Composed by Seema Sehgal 
Lyrics: Yash Sharma
Arranged by: Sandesh Shandilya
From the Dogri Album ‘Tale of a Virgin River’ 

Goriye ho meri raniye ho by kartikeys

Shaival Thakkar 
(Follows ‘Bong’ed at JNU‘)

“24×7″ food-joint at JNU. 

Apart from these pseudo-Bengalis, there also existed a Delhiite in our batch who claimed to be dying of a serious disease. If he was saying the truth then he deserves all the sympathy and empathy in the world. However, if he was lying (which is probably the case) then he deserves to be punished (like a night or two in jail can really put the hypochondria, the attention-seeking behaviour and the urban

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Ananth Venkatesh

I was in a condition of emotionless disquiet on hearing the news of Roebuck’s suicide. When I became acquainted with the events triggering his suicide, my thought immediately revolved around the Hindu/Indian notion of ‘Kali Yuga.’

Eminent cricket writer Peter Roebuck’s suicide in a South African hotel in the paradisiacal city of Cape Town has been a source of copious astonishment for the cricketing society in general, which includes present and historical cricketers as well as writers of the game. Roebuck, whose wordsmithery …

Shaival Thakkar

The author talks about his time at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, Delhi) and his fondness for Bengalis.

I am a Gujarati. However, when I hear disparaging things being said about Gujarat or Gujaratis, I am usually on the side of the people who are saying it. We have many faults; we’re too money-minded, profiteering, lack cultural activities, we’re found everywhere in the world (which can be really annoying!). And of course the communal riots of 2002 are a huge shame on Gujarat. Some …