https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqV7V7WgVE
Panju mittai suvaiku and nenjuku mitti isai sevikku.
Panju mittai attracts through its color, then its texture, and when it touches the tip of the tongue, the taste, and after eating, it leaves the color lingering on the lips, which no lipstick can give. Except for an elephant, no one can swallow it in its original size.
We don't know whether to give credit to which aspect: color, texture, taste, or the unswallowable 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 is called "cotton candy" in European languages and 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 it was mostly in attractive pink or rose colors, and of course now it comes in yellow, green, red, etc. with different flavors. Even last year the child in me popped up in Uttarakhand, and I insisted on having the yellow one and the pink one (despite the scolding from my wife). The vendor was desperately looking around for which two children I was carrying them for, 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 pleasure.
Similarly, excellent programs of music spun with sweet melodies create different emotions, producing various flavors and belonging to multiple genres.
This presentation of such programs requires not only musical knowledge and capabilities but also a lot of rehearsals (etymologically from the French 'rehercier,' meaning 'to repeat or go over again' re+hercier). "Re" as a prefix in most words in English means "again, back, anew," etc.
Such music spun out of sweet ragas is for everyone, like what candy floss is to children, and makes us relisten multiple times. Kudos and keep it up. 👇

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