2013

A Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…

After listening to that line.. pondering on it. I felt, probably the poetess tried to explain the beauty of a rose and ended up explaining what it is.

“ It is what it is”…

If we go further it explains, things are what they are… A big thought.

Beautifulness is what a rose is. Happiness is what a rose is. Lovefulness is what a rose is. Rosefulness is what a rose is. Redfulness is what a rose is.

Drawing a Rose is one of the starting lessons to learn for an artist, it is a smiling gift on our sweet hearts’ lips. It’s a beautiful comparison to the softness of a female.

 A garden full of roses is a blissful view.

I just wanna close my eyes and enjoy the view…

As a bud, it hides all its beauty. Day by day it blossoms into a flower looking up for what’s life is going to offer. Enjoys its presence and shares happiness all over.

Its stem has thorns… but up there the rose says slowly come up through those thorns u find the beauty, u touch the happiness.. don’t go back just by touching the thorns. Please move on, there is something in store for you.

Nature has all the answers for the innocent questions we have..   just a heartful look deep into nature is what is needed and it is so very simple just as asking our fellow beings.. 

“So follow the rose way and enjoy the causeway of life..” 
(just trying to sound poetic.. 😉 try to get my view in that line)
Inspired by a rose…

Graceful Kathak…

Fine Arts plays an eminent role in everybody’s life. The man turns himself towards the arts in search of happiness. They act as resources for revitalizing one’s self. Music, dance, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry are called fine arts among 64 arts. India is endowed with a rich treasure of fine arts. I feel Blessed to be a human and proud to be an Indian.

Kathak, one of the eight Indian dance forms, mesmerizes me. Such a graceful dance it is. Grace and aesthetics are the basic qualities every art form possesses. But my fascination is towards the graceful kathak among the other dance forms. I just adore this dance form. The footwork, expressions, body movements, beautiful spins, costumes, ghungroo (ankle bells), jewelry, and the dancer… All these together contribute to the gracefulness in it.

When I was 15 years old, for the first time I got introduced to this dance form. Thanks to the idea of the CCRT (Centre for Cultural Resources and Training) to conduct workshops with an intention of “Unity in Diversity”. In these workshops, all the young students receiving Scholarships in their respective art forms, from all over India, meet at one place. As a young and upcoming music scholar,  I got an opportunity to know about this dance form through these workshops. From then on my fascination developed towards this graceful kathak.

Out of interest, I searched on google and got to know that Kathak traces its origins to some group of people known as KathAkArs or storytellers from ancient northern India. That is why it is named ‘Kathak’. There is also an interesting fact that it has absorbed certain features of Persian and Central Asian dance forms in the period of Mughal’s rule. One can find similarities in the footwork used in kathak with that of Persian dance.

To discuss body movements is beyond my level of expression. One should just watch and enjoy the beauty of those movements. The footwork and spins are the highlights of this dance. The costume, a lady dancer wears, is an Anarkali dress. I just love the umbrella shape formed while spinning. Spins done in faster rhythms look wonderful. I find lots of expertise in that rhythmic spinning. The ghungroo to the ankles, sounding in response to the rhythmic beats of tabla, is one of the factors I just adore. Facial expressions along with the steps are another interesting thing one shouldn’t miss.

Finally, I am done with expressing and sharing my views on graceful kathak dance as my second attempt to write. Feeling happy. 🙂

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