HEALERS AKA SONGS

Movie - Five Star

Song - Engirundhu Vandhayada (5stars for sure) 

Singer / Composer / Lyricist- Anuradha / Parasuram / Thamarai

We all knew music has an upper hand in making one like a song all the time, for some like us (spares eyes for reading) it's the lyrics that blends beautifully, blend doesn't have to be with the way they are interlocked in the tune that's composed, but the soul it carries, music has a mood, lyrics are the reinforcement, when a couple in love talks, everything they speak, all that means is LOVE YOU, but they say it in million different ways without their conscience or subconsciously to be technically right., same way the music, the instruments, singer, the emotions by the singer tells a lot about the song, but hearing them with lyrics hits the erroneous, always the bull's eye. 

Here, I try to translate the song in English, so I get a wholesome feeling of rejoicing this song, songs like pictures can take us to the times we first listened them, Art is the only time travel every rational person can bet upon, One can never understand if it's a blessing or disguise as you all would admit, could well be blessing in disguise, yet let's sync in the melancholies and soak our soul to keep them moist from otherwise roughening environment of everyday life.

டும் டுமக்கு டும் 

அய்யா மாரே 

எங்கிருந்து வந்தாயடா 

என்னை பாடு படுத்த -நீ 

என்னை பாடு படுத்த

எங்கு கொண்டு சென்றாயட 

என்னை தேடி எடுக்க நான்

என்னை தேடி எடுக்க

Where did you come from dear

You shook and troubled me 

Where have you taken me

For me to search and find myself 

இன்பம் துன்பம் துன்பம் இன்பம்

இன்பம் என்று நீ சுகம் ரெண்டும் கொடுக்க 

சுகம் ரெண்டும் குடுக்க 

Joy and Sorrow both you do give me 

The pleasures of both joy and pains you have given me the pleasures of both extremes you are giving me dear

நீ ...

எங்கிருந்து வந்தாயடா

என்னை பாடு படுத்த

Where from did you come dear

To make and break me 

வானவில்லாய் ஆணும் வண்ண எழாய் பெண்ணும்

இருந்தால் இன்னும் வானின் அழகு கூடும்

சுட்டு விரலாய் நீயும் கட்டை விரலாய் நானும் 

எழுதும் எதுவும் கவிதையாக மாறும் 

விடாமலே உன்னை தொடர்ந்திடும் என்னை

ஒரே ஒரு முறை மனதினில் நினை ... ம்ம்ம் 

As a Rainbow Man himself 

As the 7 Colours Woman Herself 

If they are blent like that

Sky's beauty becomes endless

Index finger being you, me being the thumb

Whatever we write stirs up into a poem

Without leaving a chance, I have been following you 

Just once shall you ponder from your heart and see, will you

என்னை என்ன செய்தாயடா 

எங்கிருந்து வந்தாயடா

என்னை பாடு படுத்த

What have you done to me dear

Where have you come from dear

To let me suffer without you 

அவ ஆளை பாத்தியாடி 

ஒல்லி குச்சி 

பாவம் பால் வடியும் முகம் 

(did you see her man

poor little skinny chap

pity his childlike face *giggles*) 

வாசல் வாழயோடு வார்த்தயாடலாச்சு 

இனியும் பேச புதிய கதைகள் ஏது 

ஒருவர் வாழும் உலகில்

மௌனம் தானே பேச்சு 

மொழிகள் எதற்கு இருவர் இணையும் போது

விழாக்களில் இவள் தனித்திருக்கிறாள் 

கனாக்களில் தினம் விழித்திருக்கிறாள் ... ம்ம்ம்

Sweet were our conversations that happened in the corridor 

To take further, what new stories doth we have now

In a solitary world, silence is my slang 

Do I need a language when we join together now

I've been all alone in those events of joy

I'm wide and awake in all my dreams in nights 

என்னை என்ன செய்தாயடா 

இன்பம் துன்பம் துன்பம் இன்பம்

இன்பம் என்று நீ சுகம் ரெண்டும் கொடுக்க

சுகம் ரெண்டும் குடுக்க

நீ ...

What the hell have you done dear 

Joy and Sorrow, sorrow and joy both have you given me

Pleasures of both the worlds have you given me

எங்கிருந்து வந்தாயட

என்னை பாடு படுத்த

From which heaven have you come dear 

To trouble me like this...

BOOKS MAKETH A MAN

GIST:

This post, I want myself to keep a track of books (maybe in cases just a poem or an episode that needed to be mentioned for myself) I have read. Books are like people we meet in our life. We may like or hate, but good books doesn't fail to leave a trail on you. I cannot conclude book good or bad based on the content. There is a book you needed,maybe not, A readers liking for a book mostly is dependent of the genes he carried, emotions he underwent, proximity of vocabulary between him and writer's, atmosphere at which he read the book (mostly the atmosphere that you initiate reading the first few pages, it is then the duty of writer to keep him glued until he finishes, sometimes days after he finished).

I will therefore quote the books I have read based on my memory I have at this time of writing the blog (Starting somewhere in 2014). I mostly have a good memory when it comes to book as I hardly finish an uninteresting book. Just like any beginner I too slip into one of the character in the book or to wonder more different characters within a book as well, It's quiet natural as it is mostly the behavior of the writer (mostly self and continually influenced) is what make up each character, Over a period of reading you tend to become a judge and will want to move the story way you want it to just as we all do while watching a reasonably good movie. The most important thing is to understand how difficult it is to lay a foundation,like walking an offbeat road or wooing a girl. It is mostly tough in the beginning. Maybe my last example of the three is a difficult process at different stages too.

So I would  begin the post and the comments, with the hope of keeping them as crisp as possible, (so I don't mind reading it once in few yrs) on the books that I remember reading.

A stolen boat ride - William Wordsworth

This is one of the earliest poem I remember reading in my school days. A good one that keeps an adolescent's mind getting into it by visualizing the picture poet elaborates and the beautiful message this honey coated capsule has. A good poem for children is to make you enjoy at the age you read and appreciate the moral when you hardly remember the work but the moral well. This one does that perfectly.

Thirukural - Thiruvalluvar

Thirukural is world famous and there is not much space on the  cap to add a feather, In awe for this writer, assuming this is definitely written by a single author he must definitely have been an old person right when starting, and must have lived a life of differences, mostly observing, the kind of conviction writer had is Godly, an outcome of a rich heritage the Tamil ethnics had lived. The most inspiring fact is the decision writer had to have this couplets unbiased and keep it neutral for any reader and living up to it for 1330 (1& 3/4) lines. Comparison is unnecessary on unfair, but undoubtedly this particular writer can and should never be compared to anyone in history for years to come.

             

A Day's Wait - Ernest Hemingway

This one by Ernest Hemingway is a classic piece most of my generation would remember as it was one of those story/prose in my eighth (probably) class. This story proves how the limitation in characters is not a great deal to make it keep gripping. There may be different intent with which Hemingway had written it. My takeaway was how conversations have to be precise which will not lead to lots of misunderstandings, especially with kids,Unlike adults a kid does not evaluate much of what is being heard but will trust it, It kick started a habit in me to try and speak politically or sensibly correct and keep clarifying others’ conversations which later become typical of me that people talking to me try to use the correct set of words or rephrase immediately after uttering. It had also earned not so pleasant scenes when I end up correcting in an inappropriate situation.

The Dutch Boy and Dike -Mary Mapes Dodge

This is a cute story that uses the day, night, rain, etc to the best use of story unlike in most others where those are just a garnishing factors. It made me watch the walls on my roads closely for few rainy weeks followed by reading. Most importantly this has created a strong belief that there is no need to do something great to be a hero or saviour, seize opportunities and do things for duty not pride and a contentment is bound to appear.There is so much when a small boy can do a lot is really there for adults to try.

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May - Robert Herrick

This is one of the most amazing messages if perceived promptly. Something that every young must consume wholly, every old must help the youth with. Life is mostly a gamble, what you are willing to risk for getting what you may want, whatever you spend you can never earn time, gone is gone and that is what this poem says all about most beautifully. I can see traces to this with one of the lyricist in my own state who seldom would’ve been inspired by this, his one-liner for a filmy song goes “pozhudhirukum podhe pugazh thedu, ilamai adhu pona thirumbaadhu” what this regional poet has put straight is all that Herrick conveys with metaphors, the former had it accompanied with music and later makes meaning musical with his metaphor. His drawing simple similes is to carve it hard in the minds of young readers. He who understands this one philosophy at the right time and act with right spirit would have lived the happiest life of all. Period!

IF

A poem that need not be elaborated for the messages, rather can be lauded for content, if only you thought writing a poem is too hard and requires true brains this one changes your acuity. It’s not always about the wits of writer, but sometime, most of the time, actually all the time, experiences, knowledge to write it in your language, honesty to put thoughts straight is what beauty is all about. If it is what beauty is that is what a poem is, if poem is not beauty but something else what else it is. It cannot be anything else, if only you know what beauty is or what poem is won’t you ask further.

SILAS MARNER

George Eliot must be a great writer for giving a complex story simplified just to give the reader a hope to be resilient and move on during complex situations and a simple yet beautiful life awaits to those who move on. And this story doesn’t make you take efforts to move on. Though I was not good at reading a full novel at the time I read it, I luckily had my English teacher was at helm and I didn’t had to swim the book to last page. She was indeed Eliot for me while seeing through my ears. I have this habit of finding a near match character to mine in either the book I read or the movie I see. I feel its quiet natural I don’t do it every time, and some cases I cannot see myself but want to be them and I wanted to be Silas in this story not because he is title but because he lives his life doing a job he knows without allowing new people into his life for any reconciliation. And for making me realize we do need new person in our life to give us hope to live on.