The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

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Franz Liszt was a composer-pianist (largely). He transcribed Beethoven’s symphonies for piano. Beethoven was a composer. 

Wagner and Tchaikovsky were composers. Haydn was a composer and a teacher to Beethoven. Knowlede about Liszt’s transcriptions here.

I see.

The idea of Franz Liszt to play Ludwig Van Beethoven on piano was to show that Beethoven had a soft touch in all the symphonies. Franz’s piano played the part of bringing to notice the absolutely sublime part of the …

Kartikey Sehgal

On being asked what ‘what people do at an auto-expo’, and not willing to speak, I wrote the following on some napkins: 

let us go to an auto expo
scratch our chins
and act informed.

like in a fashion show,
which is a gift to hypocrisy
where we watch the models
but ogle at the fabrics

let us discuss 
engines and powers - 
not of the model,
who sashays around the bonnet
moving hers in style, - 
but of the car

let us …

Ananth Venkatesh

In the final part of the Indo-Pak story, Ananth says that India ought to not believe in words of peace and make concessions or promises till the proven industry of terrorism is annihilated by Pakistan.

Any Indian government, which negotiates with Pakistan when no tangible action has been adopted by Pakistan to incarcerate the terrorist, Hafeez Saeed, is a dishonorable government.

Any Indian government or think tank or media house, which even contemplates negotiations with Pakistan for the ‘resolution’ of Siachen/Sir Creek/J&K disputes, …

Ananth Venkatesh

Ananth does not trust the peace talks of Imran Khan and charts out the path he may be taking to oust India from Afghanistan, thereby creating worse conditions for India, the West and international peace. The real messengers of peace like Burhanuddin Rabbani are being murdered while the politicos are making pacts with the murderers. Part two of three in his story on India-Pakistan peace relations. (part one)

The infrastructural robustness and the ideological verve of these Pakistani terrorist groups are largely unstained and …

Ananth Venkatesh

Pakistan is unable/unwilling to stop the mushrooming terror camps at home, though their leader speaks of mutual peace in India. In this multi-part series on India-Pakistan relations, Ananth Venkatesh talks of the condition of peace in Pakistan, the threat to their populace from home-grown terror groups, the effects of America’s troop withdrawl from Afghanistan on India, and the need to be wary of Imran Khan’s peace talks.

“If the American troops and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdraw from Afghanistan as planned,

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Kartikey Sehgal

Critics who point out that Sachin Tendulkar is ‘selfish’ in his desire to want to continue are spot on, except that this quality of selfishness is what we ought to emulate and instill in our self. Or rather not. That’s how we are naturally.

Deriving from Darwin’s theory of evolution – whose ardent proponents hold intra-special instead of inter-special competition as more relevant – intra-racial competition is more important to us than inter-racial competition. That is, we compete and fight more with people …

Kartikey Sehgal

A woman, who breathes in and out the concepts of feminism and equality, is unable to apply them in real life. Interestingly, we don’t question the ideal; we just want to hear the sob story.

Meena Kandasamy, in her article in Outlook dated March 19, 2012 (I Singe The Body Electric), gives an account of the abuse and torture she faced at the hands of her lover, who beat her, whipped her, forced her to perform fellatio, among other atrocities. She …

Kartikey Sehgal

I hope you enjoy listening to this nazm as I have enjoyed composing and singing it. The Lahori audience was refined and appreciative. From an official source:

Kartikey Sehgal sings his composition of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem, “Jab Teri Samandar Aankhon Main” (In Your Ocean Eyes) at a concert in Lahore organised by Moneeza Hashmi of ‘Faiz Ghar‘ and recorded by Hum TV.

This is an audience recording and the actual recording would be available soon, including all ghazals/nazms sung …

Kartikey Sehgal

There are other heartaches in the world than those of love – so said poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, from his poem “Mujhse Peheli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob na Maang” (Don’t ask me for the love I once gave you, my love).

I have set this and other poems to music and they shall be sung by Seema Sehgal (blog link). I may sing two self-composed nazms.

The program is this Saturday (April 7) in Lahore, Pakistan. You are welcome.

This evening …

Kartikey Sehgal

Present day girls are lonely, alone. Vultures, with cultivated despondency and measured smiles, feed on the girls, – adopting themselves to emotions of deceit, forsaking masculinity.

It is the test of a girl to adapt to cold mountains and narrow roads, or perceptions of hollow people dancing under bright lights. It is the test of her growth, her family, when she refuses charming propositions of misery, thereby, saving herself from that which is turning common to women – bleakness. 

Bleakness – the once …