Dandiya - And the Stories Continue...

In less than 24 hours I'll be part of a group performing Dandiya and Garba for the office, for the first time in my life. Hopefully it's not the last. worried of forgetting my steps and getting into a mess. worried that my partner may forget her steps. Already got blisters on my feet from the all the practice. But heart is willing and hey I am having fun. Doing something I would do, though not normally. But what the heck. Life's all about taking the plunge and taking the risks. So tomorrow I am going to go out there and enjoy myself. Who care if I make mistake...I had the guts to go up there and dance in the first place :)

Dandiya

I have learnt Salsa... Have Jiving in my blood...Played Dandiya a couple of times...Never before have I been part of a group performing any of these dance forms :)

But all that's going to change this Friday night when for the first time I'll be performing Dandiya/Garba as a part of a group for the office. Really how the final product going to look like???

Have played Dandiya a couple of times before and know a bit of Garba :) Been practicing a lot...at least or the last of couple of days. Now just hoping everything falls in place properly... But no one falls :)

So let see what we can do on the 19th of October :)

The World Through the Pages of a Book

For a person who reads a lot, very often I find myself transported in to the world created within the pages of a book. Be it Laila and Mariam's war torn Afghanistan or the kite flying competition in the Kite Runner. Whether it's Lyra's Oxford or Harry's Hogwarts or even Frodo's Shire. And yes even the magical world of Narnia with the mighty Aslan.

Very often you find yourself on a journey with Bilbo Baggins or Frodo and Sam in their quest to destroy the one ring. Not forgetting Harry, Hermione and Ron's quest to find and destroy Voldemort's Hocrux. You travel through different universes with Lyra and Will, even cutting through the fabric of time. You are transported to era when you were not even born. You travel through life with Amir and Gogol. Through cities and places, that you haven't been to and may never go to.

But not all these worlds are magical and enchanted. There is pain and suffering in many of these of world. Invariably there is loss and death. Tragedy and grieving. Heinous events like rape, murder, death, massacre, savagery and war.

You live in the world created within each page. You share the character's sorrow and pain, joys and frustration.

Feelings & Emotions

Feelings & Emotions are something that everyone goes through. Whether it's being happy, elated, excited to being sad, depressed, scared. There whole gamut of these things that one experiences everyday. But at times emotions makes you feel weird and contradictory things. On a Friday when you are heading home you are all excited about it. However once your home, and you have to confront all the idiotic issues, you wish you were back at work. Again when your back at work, after the weekend, you start having the Returning back home blues, along with the Monday morning blues. You go through all these contradictory feelings.

There are times when you are surrounded with friends and all of a sudden you feel lonely and depressed and you just want to be alone. The idea of hanging about with friends is to get rid of these emotions and feelings. But all of the sudden all you want is to be alone. And you actually can't recollect what triggered this reaction, when you asked for an explanation from irritated friends.

Then when you meet up with someone. You go to the trouble of messaging the person, trying to co-ordinate everything, even willing to travel. And all this person does is say they are lazy and don't like travelling. They also don't reply to messages promptly or pick up your calls. All this leaves you irritated, fuming, angry, and you swear you will never call them again. But the next thing you know you are calling up this person, because you really want to.

Sometime I really wonder what my emotion & feelings get me to do :(