ISRO achieved another milestone making India the fourth country in the world after the US, Russia and China, docking satellites in the space. Future manned missions to the space and setting up of India’s own international space station are incumbent upon this strategic development.
Congratulations to Bharat! Congratulations ISRO! Jai Hind!
A DIRECT APPEAL TO MY PRIME MINSTER SHRI NARENDRA MODI JI
Its hightime India stops this braindrain. I winced in pain hearing my PM say, ‘there is a huge global demand for Indian visas.’ Obviously this is his polite answer to America. But is that a permanent solution Modi ji. If anyone can plug the braindrain from India for good, it is YOU. China did it. If you want to compete with China, plug this braindrain from India. Cancel passports if Indian STEM graduates who go to America stay beyond 2 years. They have to live illegally in America after the deadline or get back for legal existence in India. This will what will do good for India in the long run. So far we never bothered because we keep producing aspiring young people who are terribly ambitious. But creating an environment within the country to engage them productively will what be the ultimate solution. Which American university did Shri Abdul Kalam attend. None of the ISRO scientists have earned a degree from American universities. In fact some of them or most of them are tier 2 or tier 3 engineering university graduates not creamy tech schools – which means they did not graduate from IIT/IIM, the nation’s premier institutions. We have done enough for America. Its time we do something for ourselves. Build the best universities with the help of those nations like Japan, Israel, Scandinavian nations etc and even with America. Bolster the existing ones with collaboration. Transform India. It will not go down well with the Indian public who will see it as a curb on their fundamental rights – but you can do it. This is my direct appeal to my prime minister. Don’t allow a single Indian graduate to live or work in America beyond 2 years, especially the medicos. Get them all back. You will be truly rendering yeomen service to Mother India for centuries to come.
Adani power plant is reportedly being taken over by Chinese company in Bangladesh. Tata is pulling out of Bangladesh. Besides these two, vast Indian investments in Bangladesh are taken over by their government. This must serve as a big lesson to Govt of India who wants to invest in troubled nations like Afghanistan and Bangladesh. You just cannot reform anyone howmuchever good your intentions may be. Leave them to their destiny.
Tirupur, Tamil Nadu is known as the hosiery capital of the world. With the cotton output in the country, they have been manufacturers for Victoria secret etc., and leading garment manufacturers for global brands like Zara, etc. Tirupur registered dismal growth in last 2 years as all businesses went to Bangladesh. Now there is good news from Tirupur as the importers have returned to this small cotton textile town of Tamil Nadu.
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India’s textile hub of Tirupur is facing a revival of fortunes after nearly two years with a flurry of orders from the US and UK, helped also by political instability in neighbouring Bangladesh. With this, the city’s 5,000 apparel export units are buzzing with activity with their factories operating at 95% capacity.
This is going to affect Bangladesh seriously. Their textiles industry supports a booming lower middle class. The shift back to Tirupur will prove to be a blow below the belt for them.
CM announced US$ 1 million to anyone who could decipher the Indus valley script and prove the Dravidian connection. First of all, what is the source of this vast sum. If the state has that kind of money, converted to Indian rupees, it may well be channeled into various development activities to improve our living standards. May the man spruce up our water bodies and strengthen our reservoirs. May he build more and better roads and housing. May he be farmer friendly. May he start more factories and industries to absorb our excess capacity of literate labour force and may he bolster our schools and universities.
Besides, what does he want to exactly prove? He wants to disconnect Tamils from Hindu ancestry? In which case, may he disprove Periyapuranam. May he disprove the Brihadeshwara. May he disprove Kamba Ramayanam, Patthu Pattu, Ettu Thogai, Thevaram, Thiruvasagam, Thiruppugazh, Naalaayira Divya Prabandham. May he disprove the 64 Nayanmars and the 12 Alwars. The nayanmars and alwars come drawn from all communities representing the richness of the Varna system in practice in Tamil Hindu society. Its a tribute to how diverse and yet well balanced the society was, with each community making its indelible mark in the particular chosen profession passed on over generations, with their garnered knowledge and acumen. Faith cut across all communities though and commanded respect and a place of mention in our highest places of power and worship. May Stalin disprove the tens of thousands of ancient temples littering the state speaking of a glorious history. Why, may he first disprove Kanchipuram and the Mahabalipuram Unesco archelogoical sites. If he is so very anti Hindu, why continue being a Hindu. Why cannot he convert to Christianity or Islam with whole family. DO IT IN PUBLIC. QUIT HINDU DHARMA AND TAKE BAPTISM. You have all our blessings!
Research is one thing. But wanting to establish something with ulterior motive is anti-national. It’s mischief making. Even if there is going to be something contrary, for the sake of our ancient Bharat/India, we have to suppress it. That is what loyalty is all about. His father was born in Thiruvarur in a musical family which is why he was good with words. This family is reaping the Karmic benefits of having served in the Thiruvarur temple for generations. They rose to their zenith because of some great Karma accumulation.
We don’t want Pakis or Chinese doing us in. There are some groups within India that can take care of that job.
Shocked to watch this video. What a hatred. What an ugly despicable human being. Monster actually.
PM Shri Narendra Modiji, PUT ON HOLD ALL APPLICATIONS OF INDIAN ASPIRANTS FOR ADMISSION TO MASTERS STEM COURSES IN US UNIVERSITIES. FROM 2025 FALL, NOT A SINGLE INDIAN GRADUATE MUST STEP INTO AMERICA in next 2-3 years. BRING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY TO A STANDSTILL. LET THE AMERICAN UNVERSITIES CLOSE. Let their IT companies lock up. AVERAGE COURSE FEES FOR MS DEGREE IN US IS 50,000 TO EVEN 150,000 $ DEPENDING ON THE RANKING OF THE UNIVERSITY. APART FROM THAT INDIAN PARENTS SHELL OUT LIVING EXPENSES AMOUNTING TO THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. ALL THIS OUT OF LOANS PAYING OUT OF THEIR HARD EARNED EARNINGS. CRASH THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.
PM MODI JI, BRING HOME ALL THE MEDICOS ON GREENCARD IN THE US. TELL THEM IF THEY DO NOT RETURN ASAP, THEIR PASSPORTS STAND TO BE SUMMARILY CANCELLED. GIVE THEM A DEADLINE. WITHOUT INDIAN DOCTORS, LET THEIR HOSPITALS STINK.
Its mandatory to stop our IIT/IIM graduates on who India spends obscene sums of money from flying to the US. Bolster our own schools of technology and medicine. This is a 1.4 billion country already. Are we not ticking?
Lets make INDIA great. MAKE INDIA GREAT AGAIN fellow Indians, not the ungrateful ugly America. Today the best on-road SUVs in India are India=made Mahindra and Tata. Its Tata who owns the Landrover and Jaguar in the UK.
Nobody can stop India from stopping her young people from going to the US for higher education. Its perfectly democratic on our part to do what we please with our own children.
H1B is internal matter of the US agreed, but this racist abuse is unwarranted. This torrential hate speech, racial slur/abuse is out of burning jealousy for the success of the Indian community that these whites are unable to digest. You have to spank your own kids and save them from dope/booze and fast life.
We all have family and friends in America. May Shiva and Shakthi protect their children wherever they are. US is becoming a very unsafe place for Indians.
PS: This white man’s wife probably slept with an Indian guy hahaha!
Hopefully the bereaved parents get justice for their son. Why does India care. Many of us have our children in the US, our families in the US. What happens there affects us back in India. Indian lives matter/Hindu lives matter. Especially after the careless way a kid was mowed down within varsity campus in Seattle last year by a police car, we realize what it means to be Indian in America and how precarious the condition of our kids may be.
Meanwhile watched this video on spurt in anti-India anti-Hindu sentiment in America, not because the community poses terror threat but because the Indian community is highly successful and is giving Americans a stiff competition in every field. India is lived in for 10000 years and we are not bothered whether the scientists in American universities can come up with carbon dating to establish facts. Well, let them tell us who founded Hindu Dharma, in which date. That is the antiquity of the faith that came from Shiva, the universal father, straight. Which is why we don’t have prophets or sons of God. WE HAVE THE GOD. Any civilization lived in for such a long period and invaded for centuries is bound to have traces of the trauma like India does. Its a miracle we still survive. And our ISRO scientists to medicos today have not run to America for some extra millions of greenbacks. They stay put right in India and do good with what they have. Little girls in India still are not keen to lose their virginity by 10-12 years like American girls and get laid by half a dozen boys by 20th year. Divorces are happening only in this generation in India. Almost zero percentage in my parents’ generation. Indian women are not getting into relationships by 50, 70, even 80 years with boyfriends. We live like ascetics and think of renunciation once our children grow up. We don’t wait for our children to leave home by 18. We spend our life savings on their education and future. We don’t start our day with beer instead of coffee. We are not okay with out children becoming KFC or McDonald waiters (no offence). Our kids succeed because of the monumental personal sacrifice on part of the parents. A three bedroom apartment in Chennai or Mumbai or Delhi may be more expensive than an independent villa in most cities in the US. Right mix of culture, heritage, modernity, conservativism, knowledge and more than that ancient wisdom – this is what makes us tick. I would underline the Hindu spirituality as the sole reason for our success. I was watching or perhaps reading this bit on ancient civilizations. The Egyptian, the Mesopotamia, the Greek, the Roman everything crashed because none of them produced the great Mahaans or saints like Hindu Dharma did. That strong sense of spirituality in Hindus is what keeps us going to this day.
So, throwing this open challenge to world researchers: WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF HINDU DHARMA. WHAT IS THE FOUNDING DATE. Why cannot you establish this simple fact when you can do carbon dating for millions & zillions of years old fossils of dinosaurs? You cannot because, Hindu Dharma was not founded by any human. Dharma existed in another plane of time which is what is continuing today. Its not easy to make outsiders understand anything about India or Hindu Dharma. They see the poverty and the crowds and the heat and the dust. But this land was the land of gold and diamonds over 3000 years back with established universities and dams and reservoirs and courts and poets whether Europeans were swinging from tree to tree.
A tourist guide in an Islamic country was saying this about Algebra. Of how Al Jabber was the name behind it. Its because even when calculus and trigonometry were invented by Hindus over 2000 years back, nothing was patented or claimed as our own. Whoever claimed anything first because the inventor/discoverer! Aryabhatta and Bhaskara were our earliest known astronomers who ISRO named our first satellites after.
Googled this:
Aryabhata’s major discoveries in the works not lost were the value of pi, that is 3.14, the heliocentrism of the solar system wherein he estimated the axial rotation of planets around the sun.
What was invented by Bhaskara?
Among the first discoveries made in his works was the computation of sines of angles of 18 and 36 degrees. Bhaskara-II is credited with discovering spherical trigonometry, a branch of spherical geometry used in astronomy, geodesy, and navigation calculations.
They were probably the world’s firsts to talk about space. Distance between the sun and earth was mentioned in Sanskrit scripture. However Hindus claimed nothing as their own as one by one everything got patented in Europeans’ names. Read this account on vaccination history: a British officer visiting an Indian village hit by small pox witnessed how blood was drawn from one afflicted with pox and anointed into another unaffected person slashing his skin, by village people. Quarantine was self imposed in the village which stopped the spread of the pox. Soon the small pox vaccination was announced in matter of months in Britain as their finding. India lost many of her discoveries/inventions over centuries to Europeans. From Jaundice medication to most ailments treated by Ayurveda, most are patented by the west as their own.
After centuries of subjugation, finally the Hindu has woken up. Broken for 1500 years almost by the moslems and the British.
A normal/regular temple in south India:
The richness of some nations cannot be measured in terms of currency or even bullion. India is one such a unique nation. Its also the responsibility of Indian govt to change the image of India prevalent in the west. The same Americans who cannot afford to wait for months and years for cardio bypass, knee/hip replacement are also traveling to India for medical tourism! Chennai, my hometown, is a big draw with US citizens.
The way they discuss H1B really tears our heart apart. Its not worth it. Why are our kids flocking to this ungrateful America. What is in it for the soul there? NOTHING, A BIG ZERO. There is nothing holistic about America. Its too materialistic and fake. I can enjoy my holidays there but cannot even think of making a life there. Why can’t our children work for the mother country. It takes not just investment on part of the parents/mother country in economic terms, it also takes temperament, patience, atmosphere, nourishing environment of family values, strong sense of spirituality, inclination towards arts, crafts, classical music, dance everything, harmony that comes with contented living – to create a sweet great kid. This is the package India is sending abroad to the US, NOT JUNK LIKE I have seen in America. Look at their obesity! Half of them go for shopping to Walmart in buggies/carts because of overweight, living on disability pension.
I have never imagined myself poor, never thought of myself as poor but always have believed that I live in one of world’s richest countries with the best food, best family values, spirituality, art, classical music/dance, crafts, ancient temples over 2000 years old spread over acres the sculptures of which cannot fit into any museums, best clothes in natural cotton and silk fibres with ethnic vegetable dyes/prints/motifs rather than machine printed, – you name it, we have it. Bestest of jewelry. Its irritating when these Americans assume you are poor just because they live in a vast continent where space is abundant so that its cheaper for them to afford big villas. We in India have one of the best standards of living. Many tourists realize this soon.
Love your mother country: our children must realize this. Why do you want to work for these foreigners/foreign countries where you can never become the first grade citizen. Its okay to live in cramped homes and crowded cities and work for the progress of your mother country. The Indian community in the US is suffering for their own Karma of greed and selfishness of not giving back anything to the mother country that made them what they are today. They are stamping on your dignity, self respect and they air so much of open hatred for you – for being good and successful that is – and you want to work for America? For what? For having an empty 6 bedroom house? To die in hospice with nobody around you in your old age? To destroy your soul with no spirituality consumed by mindless materialism? Is this what our children are going to America for?
Interesting to watch the MAGA civil war going on in America! Just remember, either way India wins! Suppose the lottery is to go and with no cap on H1B, there can be no stopping meritorious Indians. Many are now turning to Australia, Canada, Germany and the UK. From Sundar Pichchai to Satya Nadella and Indra Nooyi, Indians benefited from the pre-lottery system. The cap on H1B proved to be a dampener but on hindsight its been good for Indian nation as it acts like a stopper to incessant braindrain from India that is harming our country. Meanwhile Indian ethnic population constitutes about 1% of total American but contributes to 6% of the American GDP. A very literate and forward community, its not a surprise that Indian origin people are doing well not only in the US but also in UK, Australia wherever. Even in Middle East, the NRIs (Non Resident Indians) win hands down topping all other nationalities put together. Indian diaspora in general is one successful and upbeat community doing India proud. If you ask me the reason, I can cite only a couple from my own observation: Discipline chiefly, traditional family life with preserved values, and keeping out of controversies not wanting to get embroiled in trouble, choosing academics/economic development/arts and crafts/family life to fast life/vices. Nothing really special and very much the ordinary. But I do also see on other side how some nationalities ‘live it up’ once they can lay their hands on money.
The talk is about H1B. How about sending the Indian doctors home?? India can do well with that move really. You know what it takes to produce a single efficient doctor in a third world nation like India? Do you know the cost we shell out to produce an IIT graduate/IIM graduate. Ask Indra Nooyi and Sundar Pichai. These are exactly the kind of people who bled our nation raw and then chose to give back nothing to motherland. And here these guys now debate on H1B. Who do you think will be the loser if you cap H1B? Who do you think will stand to gain if you turn our kids back from America? That guy Sriram Krishnan from SRM, Chennai – what do you think made him what he is today.
These Americans have nothing to say about the mother country that loses Her sons and daughters to utterly materialistic societies with no concern for humanity or social welfare. Its painful at times to think of what India is losing big time.
On the other hand, it can also make a mother happy to see her children prosperous and living a life of dignity and success.
How many thousands of old and aged parents back in India living a lonely life. They save every penny sleeping on thin mattresses, eating humble meals, forgoing holidays, cutting back on comforts and luxuries, living in cramped homes so that their children can have a better education and better future. Have you seen Pichai’s house that was sold by his father recently? Just 2-3 km from my home. Do you know what it takes to send an Indian kid to the US for MS/Phd. More than the tuition fees paid through bank loans on pledging your home, it takes a heavy heart on the part of the parents to see off their kids in the airport flying thousands and thousands of miles away across oceans. Mothers bleed from their hearts. Fathers don’t know what to do with their sparse savings and investments on retirement and the small house they worked for a lifetime to build. Visits to America become rarer with age. Home is EMPTY. At first the children visit home/India annually. Then slowly the visits stop. How many old people die alone in India with their children living in luxury villas in the Bay Area or wherever. Father dies, mother dies – and then go into freezer box until the son arrives from America for cremation. This is what India is giving America. This is the sacrifice of Indian parents behind every H1B that is issued by the US. If America can turn down some Indian kids, they will be doing a big favour to their poor Indian parents.
STEM also includes the medical aspirants. Curiously America never talks about sending back Indian doctors or cutting their quotas. Medicos from India receive red carpet welcome wherever they go. Easily our Indian doctors outclass others as we observe in foreign countries. The medicos are the hardest to create, cultivate/train. They are the priciest.
In spite of giving so much to America, India is still preparing to take on the world with the second line of defence. So long as our own children don’t turn against us with their policies and politics, its fine.
To most of us who have our children in the US, US also feels like home. Especially me, I am a resident of three countries India, Qatar and America (visiting), that borders blur for me nowadays. When you live half your life outside your country, it becomes increasingly less and less important to alienate between nations, people, culture, languages and faith. Its this point I am reaching in life.
The history of Delhi could be heartwrenching. Invasion after Islamic invasion for centuries beginning with 7th century CE from Sindh left the city in ruins. May be the city was cursed. Indhraprastha as Delhi was called in Mahabharat times, was throne of contention for which the Mahabharat battle was fought. One of the worst and bloodiest invasions of Delhi was that of Timur from Samarkand, today’s Uzbekistan. Its said that after the ransacking of Delhi, jackals and vultures filled the city streets and skies for years. It took almost a whole century for one of the oldest capital cities of the world to limp back to normalcy. Its not just Delhi. Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and other states of India too bore the brunt of brutal attacks of invasions lasting many centuries before the British took over. Hindu temples held tonnes of gold and diamond jewelry that became reason for attacks. Hindu society was also already civilized that rendered the community weaker compared to the untamed barbarity of the invaders. Mohammad of Ghazni attacked Somnath for a record 17 times and succeeded only on the last, plundering the temple wealth and leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. For centuries Bharat/India was the richest country in the world. Columbus set out to discover India, not America which is why the natives even today are referred to as Indians, who he thought they were.
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I have done a copy & paste job here from Google.This is on Ghazni Mohammad who ransacked Somnath. This is to show what invasions meant for nations through the times we have lived through. Indian history especially could be very traumatic. I would prefer the word, HINDU HISTORY.
“So to plunder the wealth of India he made very first attack in 1001. He attacked India 17 times on India. He made his 16th attack on the Somnath temple in 1025 just to plunder the gold. Mahmud Ghaznavi was the king of Ghazni who ruled from 971 to 1030 AD.
Forgotten Chandela Rajput King Vidhyadhara and the story of how he stopped Ghazni’s advance in India. When we talk about the expeditions of Mahmud Ghazni ,we seem to only give importance to the fact that he invaded India 17 times and plundered the temples, their huge wealth and took slaves through these barbaric raids. “
The same Somnath temple today:
https://www.gujarattourism.com/saurashtra/gir-somnath/somnath-temple.html
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Its funny when they talk about Timur attacking the Delhi Sultanate, the Tuglaqs are presented as benevolent rulers of Delhi. In truth, all of them were invaders in whose times Hindu blood flowed like river with their wealth stolen, and their women taken over. Timur was most extreme of all.
So it was not with an open mind at all that I toured Uzbek. Coming face to face with Amir Timur’s tomb was not easy for me. In the complex is a small circular stone tank which Timur reportedly filled with pomegranate juice. His soldiers were asked to drink from it to get used to the colour of blood. On return from his battles, he once again filled the tub with the juice and asked his soldiers to drink the juice again. The difference in levels of juice told him how much was casualty on his side.
Finally this man too lay in his grave which was also supposedly desecrated by Nadir Shah of Iran, who for some reason decided to return the remains to the original site. This country Uzbek is full of mausoleums. Turkey was full of galleries with instruments of torture. I have already blogged about how I found the Sambaji (of Shivaji fame) museum in Tanjore. The Marathas spread upto the Kaveri/Cauvery Delta. The museum of the Hindu emperor was in contrast holding exhibits of small machines used in granaries/fields in the 16th century, copper and brass utensils of those times, measuring units, barn storages, jewels and gems, art, creativity – in general anything and everything relating to a rich peasant life – the way India was.
So imagine a leading Bollywood actor naming his son ‘Timur.’ You have to be a sadist to do that, a psycho. But given his faith, its no wonder. This place Tashkent is a hit with Indian tourists ironically today. Its been so for a while. In the 60s, Raj Kapoor made India famous in Uzbek with his ‘Avaaraa.’ I had the pleasure of applause of Uzbek locals, singing ‘mera juta hai japani’ in a local train from Tashkent to Samarkand recently. Centuries later what we have here may be two friendly nations whose populations love and respect each other. There is an enormous goodwill for India in present times in Uzbek. I forgave Timur for Uzbeks of today who cannot and must not be held responsible for his bloody deeds over nearly a 1000 years back. Someone walked upto me in the street asking if I was an Indian. I said ‘yes.’ Selfie followed with a big smile. I can see the impact of India on this new nation of 35 years, that was born after the Soviet revolution of 1989. It retains memories from the Russian days. We dined at a restaurant named after Raj Kapoor whose popularity was equally shared by Mithun Chakraborty. Locals today seem to have no connection with the barbarity of Timur’s army. In fact the converse is true: Modern day Uzbeks come across as most non-controversial and peace loving people.
Indian economy despite centuries of having nurtured a broken back, is resurgent and buoyant today. Hindu Dharma is seeing a revival as well. Hindus/India lived a nightmare from 7th century CE to 1947 until we won our independence from the British. You are looking at a nation whose Hindu genocide shall never make it to the history text books of the world. What a comeback for India/Bharat. Kudos to fellow Hindus. Even the Indian christians and muslims are Hindu by culture.
As for Timur, one can imagine what a wasteland his country must have been in those bygone eras. Plunder and looting meant survival and self-defence, especially given the powerful Mongols next door. Timur’s great great great grandson was Babur who established the Mughal empire in India which was equally ruthless and bloody even if some Mughals patronized art and literature. Ayodhya recently witnessed the resurrection of Ram Janam Bhoomi mandir that was desecrated and razed by Babur. Aurangzeb killed at least two Sikh Gurus burning one alive at stake. Today the irony is that the Sikhs in Canada are collaborating with Pakistanis against India. India today enjoys good diplomatic relations with most of our past conquerers including the Afghans and Uzbeks. Its the converted Pakistan that was largely Hindu that is pain in the neck for India. India is also quietly prosperous and more progressive and advanced today than the nations that conquered us. It looks like none of the looted wealth from India has helped them anyway.
I want to round off this post with a mention about our second prime minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri. Its an open secret that his death in 1965 just before the Tashkent agreement with Pakistan in the capital was not natural. Soviet Union was the peace maker in the aftermath of the Indo-Pak war of 1965. I would like to borrow someone’s words here: who stood to benefit from Shastri’s death. That can give us a clue for the motive. Took a picture with Shastri’s bust in Tashkent. The capital has a street named after him. Somehow its very difficult for me to associate today’s Uzbek with Amir Timur of Samarkand. I wish this peaceful nation Uzbekistan all prosperity despite Timur! They are proud of him naturally for his conquests. It was not easy for me to hide my pain listening to his exploits. Uzbek today is 80% muslim but they are moderate or what we may call modern muslims.
A local told me that his sister had a major open heart surgery at Vedanta, Gurgaon (from the same Delhi devastated by Timur) some 15 years back and is doing well. That is the gift Bharat/India has given back Timur centuries after what he did to Delhi. I am sure Timur then turned in his grave.
Social media congratulating India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman and the Income tax department for coolly winning 50% of the match earnings of D Gukesh, the latest and world’s youngest chess champion, calling them ‘grandmasters’ really made my day! Gukesh won in Indian rupees some 11 crores half of which will have to be paid towards taxes and surcharges. This was running at the back of my mind as well. But never expected netizens to troll our government so brazenly !
Will miss Zakir Hussain who I was following on Instagram.
What a maestro. Absolutely down to earth and divine. His jugalbandhi with Vikku Vinayakram and others took my breath away. Huge loss for India.
The ‘wah Taj’ commercial that captivated India:
Of course my personal favourite is Hussain’s Tabla in jugalbandhi with Jayanthi’s Veena.
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