..Confessions to Desh Raag..

I dont have much to write, but how today i understood, what a major mistake i have done in life, never having learnt music, rigorously.

I was at the Mellon Institute's auditorium here, the same MI from which our university first started. Regal place, close and warm acoustics, and Arvind was singing a carnatic classical version of Desh raag.

Nobody else was there, we were inspecting the place for a future concert of Spic Macay, and i listened to his voice, trained for 24 years he told me later.

What could be a word to describe a musician's voice, maybe one should not use any word, just treasure the peace and calm it brings to one's mind, listening to it...today i wished, like him getting lost in the music, i could possibly too, had i learnt classical music listening to maa, long back...

Raag Desh it was, and how more than 13 years later, a feeling of guilt envelopes me, on being callous with maa's wish to learn music..

~silence,justthat.