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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Music spun out of sweet ragas are for everyone like what candy floss is to children and makes us relisten multiple times.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqV7V7WgVE

Panju mittai suvaiku and nenjuku mitti isai sevikku.


Panju mittai attracts through its colour, then it's texture and when it touches the tip of the tongue the taste and after eating, it leaves the colour linger on the lips which no lipstick can give. Except an elephant no one can swallow it in its original size. 


We don't know to give credit to which aspect colour, texture, taste or the un-swallowable size.  


Music and ragas are like that. 


Which child in any part of the world won't want to taste ' Panju mittai' or 


buddi-ka-baal and in European languages called as cotton Candy, also called "Candy Floss," (UK, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Canada)"Fairy floss," (Australia, South Africa), "Spider Webs," or "Candy Cobwebs. Whatever, name we may call it,it is a form of spun sugar made by heating and spinning  into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick. Originally it was supposed to have been only in white, then to my memory and knowledge till some 20 years back was mostly in attractive pink or Rose colour and of course now it comes in yellow, green, red etc with different flavours, even last year the child in me popped up at Uttrakhand and I insisted on having the yellow one and pink one ( despite the scolding from my wife) the vendor was desperately looking around for which two children I was carrying them only to get disappointed to see me consuming both and then come back to order a green one. 


Why I thought of this is because for a conscious mind such small and less harmful temptations are an irresistible pleasures. 


Similarly, excellent program of music spun with sweet melodies create different emotions, producing various flavours and belonging to multiple genres. 


This presentation of such programs  requires not only musical knowledge and capabilities but lot of rehearsals (etymologically from french 'rehercier' =to repeat or go over again re+hercier. Re as a prefix in most words in English mean " again, back, anew etc. 


Such music spun out of sweet ragas are for everyone like what candy floss is to children and makes us relisten multiple times. Kudos and keep it up. 👇

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