Power of Passion with paav bhaji and Prasanna

Else where Team India is enjoying the grand first innings total of 664 (their 4th highest ever) and Kumble spending a happy night for his laudable century scoring effort (may be the happiest one after his 10 wicket in an innings haul ) , here is me smiling at my last night of stay for cupla months in my home ground of Mumbai and leaving tomorrow back to campus (ab yeh pata nahi , how its a coincidence my second writeup comes again when heading back to the IIT ! :) ) .

Speaking of the title , jiski shtory hasnt started at all ...you get this in two nearly disconnected parts . Goes like this ..aage badho !

Part 1 : Worli , Mumbai ..

Me needs to visit a leading global bank for some work and had to go their Worli corporate office .. While locating my destination , just below the premises I see this Bhel puri waala and instantly my urge tells me "ki partha ..once work done i have to have it ..itni door campus chodke mumbai aaye to ! " . Anyways before even i start narrating this chaat eating stint , the office these bank folks had ..Wow ! Not just elegant , posh but much more ? ..And there sits the receptionist who is somewhat better executively dressed than me (Corporate ki bipasha heroine jaise outfits ... receptionist ko woh bhi !) . Ok ..guys , picturise kar liya ..abhi back to my blog jahan choda ! :P . Here is me done with his work and rushes down hurriedly just to see if that bhel puri thela guy is still there ?? Sigh ! he is and there i gobble up cupla chaat items and sandwiches ..and believe me , it was as if quenching my thirst after waiting for a long time.

Not talking of just urges , but somehow i have fallen with love with the kind of delicacies this city has to offer ! Circa April 2007 only ..three DMSers landed here for doing a project with the Mumbai dabbawaalaas namely : Kayyum Kodithala , Babu Balki and Partha Pager (thats me , of course ) . The work we went for made us return at 1 AM odd times and on the way while we were to walk for few mins increased our bhook . Unwantingly (for my mom and not us , who had asked to come back for dinner at home :) ) , a mast masaaledaar smell of paav bhaji flew past us (even the best of Axe deo variants kuch nahi uske saamne for attractions ! and bulgari types perfumes khareedne ki aukaad meri placements tak to nahi hai ) . What next ? Kayyum , Babu and Partha glance at each other , just wating for a slightest nod (ki bhai ..chal na , thoda sa to !) and off we are to this roadside stall finishing up the whole thing in 2 mins (babu major chunk khatam kar gaya usme bhi as always :P !!) . Love for food is one of the common likings which binds us ..and we hadnt started or gonna stop here doing crazy stints with other campus mates for food :) , may call it the power of passion ?

Part 2 :

The example here is the person whom i usually take as how the Power of Passion can change your life and that when you are determined to do so. Guitar Prasanna , a contemporary guitarist and composer who has the unique credit of playing Carnatic Music in guitar . For the unknowns , he is the one credited for orchestration and arrangements for Lagaan's title score . Well , before him no one had thought of such a thing .And with a smallest drop of carnatic music knowhow , it isnt easy getting classical raagas and gamakas in such an instrument. More than the credits , check out his biography . Prasanna is a BTech from IIT Madras and to pursue his passion for music , he went on to earn himself a degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston. At this age of late 30s , he has played not only with the leading Indian classical artistes but at many of the popular International Music festivals and with equally legendary names in the global arena (all genres like Jazz , Fusion , Classical , Rock ) ! Call it the Power of Passion ! Yes i should (and so no question marks at the end as in my example 1 ) and seriously believe in it ...

Think about it ..meanwhile i get back to campus.