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Archive for December, 2005

desi uploads*

Posted by rocksea on 25 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: india

Ottan Thullal "Garuda Garva-bhangam"
Ottan Thullal is a typical solo dance in which the humorous elements from Koothu and the musical elements from Kathkali are combined. Its origin is attributed to Kunchan Nambiar, a veritable genius and one of the foremost poets of Kerala. Nambiar developed Ottan Thullal into the most popular folk art presented in kerala temples.

Ottan Thullal "Garuda Garva-bhangam" (The vanquishing of Garuda’s Pride).  Enacted by Kalamandalam Geethanandan.

Garuda Garvabhangam
(mpeg with english subtitles, 459mb, 45 minutes)

update: ottan thullal upload removed

Indian Recipes
Quite a lot of north Indian and south Indian recipes. All are vegetarian.
Indian Recipes. (originally released by arakirukkan @ MT)

Lost Temples of India

Documentary Video on the ‘Lost Temples of India’.
It covers Taj Mahal, south Indian temples like Madurai, Srirangam,
with historical, areal and inner (ceremonies) views of the temples.

Lost Temples of India
(format: mpeg, size: 480 mb, duration: 52 minutes)

Grab it before I remove the upload
update: temple upload removed

Mile sur mera tumhara

National Integration song “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara..”, released in 1987 commemorating the 40th anniversary of Indian Independence and aired for several years afterwards. Song lyrics (in different languages and roman alphabets) and details are here: http://www.rock-sea.net/mile-sur-mera-tumhara

Video & Audio:

video: MileSurMeraTumhara.avi produced by Ashish Kapoor @ MIT
(original video aired by doordarsan not available online yet).
audio: MileSurMeraTumhara.mp3

Some other uploads

Ek aur Anek video by Flims Division
….
suraj ek, chanda ek, taare anek,
ek titli, anek titaliyaaN
ek gilhari , anek gilhariyaaN
ek chidiyan, ek ek… anek chidiyaan
….

Malgudi Days Title song (mp3, 1mb)
Malgudi Days, Television program based on R.K. Narayan’s novel ‘Malgudi Days’.. Look at http://www.malgudidays.com/ for details on Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayanan and R. K. Laxman (he’s the younger brother of R. K. Narayan).

p.s. this page will be updated periodically. visit again for more.

* uploads in this page are not authored by rocksea networks and they’ve been uploaded with the intention of preserving the culture and to quench one’s nostalgia. the videos may be online for a month or so, smaller files may remain. if you’ve authored any of the files here and if you want it to be removed, do contact. if you’ve authored any files which aren’t here and you want them to be added, do contact.

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പനിനീര്‍പ്പൂവും ഹൃദയവും

Posted by rocksea on 23 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: മലയാളം

അവനിയിലവനെയവര്‍ മറവു ചെയ്തു
വെറും മണ്ണായ്, മണ്ണിന്റെ കൂടെയവനൊതുങ്ങി
അവന്റെ സന്ദര്‍ശകരിലവന്‍ കണ്ണീര്‍ കണ്ടു
കാതുകള്‍ക്കരുതെന്നു കരുതിയ ഗാനങ്ങളവന്‍ കേട്ടു
“എങ്കിലും തന്റെ മണ്ണില്‍ പുഷ്പങ്ങള്‍ തളിര്‍ക്കുന്നുവല്ലൊ”
അവന്‍ ആഹ്ളാദിച്ചു;

ആ പുഷ്പങ്ങളിലൊരു പനിനീര്‍പ്പൂവിനെയവന്‍ കണ്ടൂ-
പ്രണയത്തിന്‍ കാല്‍ചിലന്പുകളവനാ
സൌന്ദര്യത്തില്‍ കേള്‍ക്കുവാന്‍ കൊതിച്ചു
          ”പക്ഷേ, നീയോ ശവമേ,
           നിനക്കെന്തര്‍ഹതയെന്‍ സ്നേഹത്തിനായ്
           നിന്‍ സാമീപ്യമെന്‍ സൌന്ദര്യത്തിലും കളങ്കം വീഴ്‍ത്തീല്ലയൊ?”

…അവനാ മണ്ണില്‍ നൈരാശ്യത്തിന്‍ ചൂടു വിതറി

പനിനീര്‍പ്പൂവോ,
വാടിത്തളര്‍,ന്നവനേപ്പോലെയാ നെഞ്ചിലേയ്‍ക്കു വീണു;
മുള്ളുകള്‍ തറഞ്ഞപ്പോഴുമവനു രക്തമൊഴുക്കാന്‍ നല്ലൊരു ഹൃദയം
                                                                ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു…
panineerpoov & hridayam

 

This article is in Malayalam language. Any reading problems? Check here.

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life and questions

Posted by rocksea on 16 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: life

Life bestows us with a lot of interesting questions, hurdles and most people shrug off from all these. They’re satisfied with what life brings them.

Well, what does life mean? At least, what does life mean for us? For me, what does the 25 years I’ve gone through mean?

As you leave the walls of your mother’s womb, as you get cut off the umbilical cord, you think you’re free….oh no… as soon as you set your foot on this place you know you’re in the wrong place; but you’ve no choice!

Life here is just being: study when you’re young, then have a job, then get married, then have children and worry on them, then let them have the study then let they worry about the job, then…. it goes like a cycle. Everyone tries to keep the cycle, keeping in mind what god once said, go on, reproduce as the sand grains on this earth.. Is it all about life?

This is not against being materialistic, but against being totally materialistic. We’ve to have something out of our life, something at least we could be proud of at the end of our life..

Hey, go and stir the sugar, unless you never gonna get the taste!

Let your thoughts be unprompted, your concepts be spontaneous; Go off the circle a bit, throw off your watches, redraw the boundaries, let the time be no constraint, let the world be no constraint.

Not asking you to sit and meditate all the time; but just be conscious: that there should be some meaning to your life…

greatness of gita (Bhagavat Gita) is that:
Krishna didn’t change the ‘paristhithi’
he changed the ‘manasthithi’

he didn’t change the circumstances
he gave the knowledge how to face it

God won’t come and do whatever for you. He has given you more than enough knowledge and power to pursue life. It’s your road ahead; you’ve to walk alone.

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മഴയ്‍ക്കെന്നെ വേണമെങ്കില്‍

Posted by rocksea on 08 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: മലയാളം

mazha

ഈ മഴ
ചുമ്മാ തിമിര്‍ത്തു പെയ്യുകയാണ്
ചുമ്മാ
ചെറിയ തണുപ്പും വരുന്നു
പണ്ട് മഴയോടൊപ്പം
താളം തുള്ളിയിരുന്നു.
ഇന്നു മടി
മനസ്സില്‍ താളം തുള്ളുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിലും
മഴ നനയാതെ
മഴ ആസ്വദിക്കാമെന്നു കരുതി
വരാന്തയില്‍ വന്നിരുന്നു.
പക്ഷേ മഴ സമ്മതിക്കണ്ടേ
ചുമ്മാ എന്റെയടുത്തേയ്‍ക്കു വരുകയാണ്
കാറ്റിന്റെ തോളിലേറി
ഓരോരോ തുള്ളിയായി
പല പല തുള്ളിയായി..
വീണ്ടും മാറിയിരുന്നു
വീണ്ടും അടുത്തേ‍ക്കു വരുന്നു
അകത്തേയ്‍ക്കിരിക്കണോ?
വേണ്ട
നനയാം
മഴയ്‍ക്കെന്നെ വേണമെങ്കില്‍
ഞാനെന്തിനു No പറയണം.?!

 

ഇതു പണ്ട് കൊച്ചിന്‍ യൂണിവേര്‍സിറ്റി സനാതന ഹോസ്റ്റലിന്റെ വായനാമുറിയുടെ വരാന്തയിലിരുന്ന് എഴുതിയത്. 

 

 

 This article is in Malayalam language. For proper rendering of fonts, check here.

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Hokkaido University International Cultural Festival

Posted by rocksea on 02 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: japan

Itz our first International Culture Festival and we are gonna make it! There’re around 800 international students here in Hokkaido University. Yet, only this year, by the formation of an official association by us few that the ryu-gakusei (international-students) got some idea about each other. As the HUISA (Hokkaido University International Students Association) executive committee (am the web admin ;) ) we’re almost into the final stages of our first year. Herez a brief view into the photo-session during the rehearsal today evening. The event is on Dec 10th. Am the one in the blue kurta, proximate to the Lawrence of Arabia. Rest are HUISA executive committee members and organisers and some participants of the culture festival.

Hokkaido University International Cultural Festival

The Indians in us are planning to do mile-sur-mera-tumhara & a dandiya dance.

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