our rajasthan trip.

we planned for a jaipur-bharatpur-agra trip. But ended up only half a day tour in jaipur with quite good shopping. Trip to agra was amazing, it was almost night when we landed there and literally we were searching for taj mahal standing right in front of it.
Anyway, 15 hours of private talk with the future bill gates during the travel was quite insightful.

My cousins' concert

My cousins' concert

After a long time, I attended something called Carnatic Music concert, that too by my cousins (2nd and 4th from left). Let me confess onething that, unlike both of my parents, I am totally alien to this kind of music. As I was more comfortable with film instrumental songs, western classical, pops, rock or melodies for that matter, but carnatic music was something different, or puzzling quite frankly. But today it was different, I enjoyed it! I was totally immersed by the sync. with which those three violinists played. Perfectly spellbinding.

Sometimes it requires enough maturity & time to taste the essence of beauty in life.

Yet another quote on life.

I saw this one here.

i have lived nearly fifty years, and i have seen life as it is. pain, misery, hunger... cruelty beyond belief. i have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. i have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall in battle... or die more slowly under the lash in africa. i have held them in my arms at the final moment. these were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. no glory, no gallant last words... only their eyes filled with confusion, whimpering the question: "why?" i do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. when life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? perhaps to be too practical is madness. to surrender dreams - this may be madness. to seek treasure where there is only trash. too much sanity may be madness. and maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

don quixote de la mancha