Divine veena mastery courtesy Jayanthi Kumaresh

My labour of love:carnatic music

This is done for pleasure, not reward:having learned Carnatic music from both Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana in Hyderabad,and T.M.Krishna in Chennai,I was witness to both Nookala sir's fantastic adherence to lyrics,and TMK's scant regard for.I have scoured Youtube for audio clips of them singing the same keertanams,but haven't discovered any.I think my success rate looks like it should be  on the upswing soon,because Nookala was a staunch Thyagaraja devotee,and TMK has sung countless Thyagaraja keertanams during most concerts.I think I might have stumbled on a brainwave:I have recordings of Nookala and T.M.K singing http://www.shivkumar.org/music/kanakanaruchira-new.pdf in separate clips naturally.Let this work!

Not to be painfully insistent,but after I sang  Thyagaraja's Sogasuga Mrudanga thalamu,I initiated these blog-posts,but I could find only T.M.K's version of it on Youtube,so I decided to find some ghana keertanam,whose recordings by both musicians were available on Youtube,and what surprise that my luck turned on the hinge of Thyagaraja's pancharatna kritis??

😈😇😎

Carnatic bowdlerization:case in point

As great a singer as he is,T.M.Krishna has a horrible relationship with lyrics,which is astounding,considering how much he has sung,[I could have said used/abused  the lyrics 😎] and benefited from the selfsame lyrics!So,even high art is extremely forgiving,to the point of silliness almost.I sang https://karnatik.com/c2870.shtml today,and here is T.M.K's version of it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RABXi-62]
I rest my case...

Crowning glory of dentistry

Metatarsalgia

 

All these anoint me a battle-scarred veteran,no less!Oh come on!!

As hateful(because painful)as this is[described in exhaustive detail by WebMD:{https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/metatarsalgia#1https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/metatarsalgia#1}) and as much of an eyesore (the hideousness!!!) its effects are,I have to live with it {improve my gait above everything else,as is evinced by my photos,and grant that it does afford at least the medical community some reading space,however it restricts my movement😅😈!!

 And in case you weren't already aware,the single most important way around this roadblock is stride correction[[Hello,in case you did not see,they are photos of my leg]],no matter how humiliating or painful it is,not a truckload of cream of any kind!

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