Booscuthalaa - Untying the Knots

I vividly remember those days back at Vikaasa in Madurai, when I was asked to write a composition on Rainy Day. I used to be really bad at writing essays then, in Class 4 and 5. Somehow, I could not get myself to be as creative or imaginative as Mrs.Menon expected me to be. One very popular topic used to be Rainy Day. What do you do on a rainy day?... Let me think about all those rainy days I've been through so far. At Madurai, the year we moved into our newly built house, it rained cats and dogs and the entire locality was flooded. Obviously, power cuts ruled! Nothing to do, .. it would be me, my sister and my grandpa, playing a game of cards and enjoying the deadly silence around! However, i dont think I always enjoyed the rain. Power cuts annoyed me big time and somehow, wherever I've been, the EB guys dont seem to like me. Even later in my life, when I moved to Bangalore to work, there would be floor-sensitive and house-sensitive power cuts! Really gets on my nerves at time...

This post is a tribute to all the great souls who have taught me music and continue to be my inspiration in life. Music has always been my passion. One of my significant childhood memories at Vikaasa is that of my music sessions with Mrs. Lakshmi Parthasarathy in a huge "Interest" hall, next to the KG block at school. I used to love the wooden staircase in that building, which by this time, has been demolished and transformed into something else. As a 3rd std. kid, I looked forward to that one interest class we had every week. If I can still sing today(tolerably), it is only due to Mrs. Parthasarathy's rigorous training sessions in those years. Not everyone in m y class liked Carnatic music. In fact, I was one among the very few who could sit through class without getting restless. Ma'am would teach us small songs very rarely. Otherwise, it used to be just swara lessons all the time. Soon, we entered senior school and Vikaasa gav...

This post will be followed only by Vikaasites who have spent a couple of years at Madurai. Had some wonderful teachers at school. I'm just documenting their names here so that I can always return to this post and remember being tutored by them long back. Will keep updating the list as and when I remember more people. Class teachers: LKG - Mrs. Shanthi Bala(now with TVS) UKG - Mrs. Goldein(no idea), Mrs. Joseph(in Australia now) Class 1 - Mrs. Pinto(no idea) Class 2 - Mrs. Gale Wooldridge(still with vikaasa) Class 3 - Mrs. Ahrestani(now in Australia) Class 4 - Mrs. Kamala Menon(now in chennai) Class 5 - Mrs. Renuga(no idea) Class 6 - Mrs. Chandra Alexander(still in Madurai, but not vikaasa)) Class 7 - Mrs. Chandra Alexander Class 8 - Mr. Srinivasan(now in chennai) Class 9 - Mrs. Uma Subramaniam(with TIME, Madurai) Class 10 - Mrs. Vijayalakshmi(still in Madurai, but not vikaasa) Class 11 - Mrs. Uma Subramaniam(with TIME, Madurai) Class 12 - Mrs. Uma Subramaniam(with TIME, Madurai) S...