I see that my smart cat has kept you updated on my moves. It’s true, I’ve been dis­tracted lately. But first things first. Let me tell you what hap­pened yes­ter­day. For starters, I had nearly left my entry pass to the Tull-Chaurasia show behind. I remem­bered at the last moment and scur­ried back home to […]

Instruc­tor: What are you play­ing? What are you play­ing?!! Me (Get­ting my fin­gers crossed again): Uh. I think it’s A? No nooo. C? Ah. Uh… Instruc­tor (Most exas­per­ated now as I don’t think he’s had such a dumb stu­dent in a while): You’re play­ing the wrong string, dear. Me (Wish­ing there weren’t so many b***** strings): […]

Let me bring you songs from the wood: to make you feel much bet­ter than you could know. Well, well. they’re finally com­ing to our neck of the woods. Two flautists, both with their inim­itable styles — Ian Ander­son and Hari Prasad Chaura­sia, will be per­form­ing on 31st Jan and 1 Feb in Mum­bai. I nearly jumped […]

Jag here writes about pro­gress­ing from a walk­man to an MP3 player. Remind­ing me of my loyal device, which has kept me com­pany over more than four years now. And I haven’t had any prob­lems with it yet. Of course, it looks old and worn out. But it hasn’t given me much rea­son to complain, […]