Rolling Stones...or Rolling Balls!!! ???

6:00AM,a so-called soothing music blaring at highest decibel from the nearest point of my own national boundary and forcing my killer instinct to launch all my inter-continental ballastic missiles at a one go. I got up and marched on with an articulate hip-pop steps... just like Shashi Kapoor followed Zeenat Aman in "Satyam Shivam Sundaram"...

Knock Knock Knock..., My dearest neighbour, Mr Majali opened the door(Alas!! His Daughter & My Zeenat Aman was beyond the visible range..),I enquired about the Music and he replied with a joyous mood,if some-one has asked about his family contacts with that stuff, "Rahul,its a authentic carnatic music from Canara Region...". At first , I thought he might have mis-spelt "Canada"...but any how he enhanced my knowledge of geography,by letting me know about that place(mangalore region..). Any way ..his wife joined the conversation,"Rahul, do u liked it?? ..u can take some CDs from us.". An offer of weapon by an enemy side..thats what I call a height of phsycological warfare.I left them with there kind of music.

Any way...thats how my day was launched!!! By the time I was back to my flat,the carnatic music was at a full blow and Nishit M.V,my batch-mate,an animal of his own kind started blaring all his Creative Speakers with the help of Linkin Park. The song was "In the End..." and finally I was crying for the End. I have encountered many Indian Rock Fans ..like my another batch-mate Swapnil Das, he is fond of Metallica and Gun's'n'Roses..but ask him about the lyrics of "Nothing Else Matters..." or "Knock..Knock Knock Knocking at the Heaven's Door"...!!!..He can't carry out the flow beyond the first two lines... so what you can conclude out of it!!! ..The people like these are completly a bunch of movers who just know to follow the crowd just for the sake of the public demonstration of their westernisation.

My neighbours were not the only which go terribly wrong in each and every morning.Much of the main-stream rock addicts and classical freaks too swallowed and then uncritically propogated the "Feel-Good" factor.There was something more troubling about this disconnection between perception and reality,one which reflects a large divide in India's "Good-Morning-Music-Taste".

I would like to extend my thankness with incorrigible stubborness.Every moment that someone pulls back me from my habitat forays into their nosiy barbarism and butchery( of morning peace...) is a moment for which to be grateful - grateful for the flourishes of my neighbour's mercy,love,compassion and common sense.(God Help Them Please...!!!!)

Real devotees of the Rock are indeed fanatics.They are less bothered about what is happening to their "nearest world". And when I ask them ...what they finally get out of it...They reply in a polytonous tone .."PEACE!!! MAN!! PEACE".If thats the way,a society can achieve peace...hope so next time if there is any border clash between India and Pakistan...we can hear them with Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath blaring,through each other's artillery unit.

A morning according to me should be peaceful and calm...not like this.But,we the Indians have all kind of tendency and authority to promote our own Lata Mangeshkars and Kishore Kumars at the wee hour...no mater of what...how bad it is...how worst it is and how disturbing it is and more than that, we claim this self-proclaimed talent as a part of our intellectual property.Amazing!!! isn't it??

The peace we all seek is attainable within ourselves, and as we reach these moments of peace the effect will ripple out into our personal lives, into our families, into the communities that we live in and I believe...Music plays very important role in it.

A music should provide so much space and air that it should stimulate your mind and body at a one go. Every kind of music has its own tempo,power and time of occuring.A mytic would say pure music is transcedence. A mystic-manque,on a more worldy plane,may say communion.A syberite would say "Orgasm on Ecstacy".Myself,I have know nothing better than the strumming out a good chord on my guitar.It is in Shakesphere's Word, Better than Sex.(wink!)

Final Conclusion:It is up to us to create the world we want to live in but the out of seeking comprehensive and contemporary nirvana(especially in the morning..) demands denial and I am feeling quite lucky for not having a drummer,as my neighbour,as a final solution driven by millenial strategy.(laugh...not the final one yet!!)