Basho's Trail

I came across Basho, the Haiku Master, through Osho's discourses and Sujatha's writings. Haiku describes the experience of a person at that moment (Whereas some are writing now just to follow the number of words it requires). I didn't know that Basho had travelled so much until I read this article from "National Geographic Magazine", Feb. edition.

Excellent photographs of Michael Yamashita adds beauty..

“Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home” - Basho.

- NSR.

Sujatha..

From writer S.Ramakrishnan,who wrote about him in his article " Kathaa Vilasam" in Ananda Vikatan.

When I heard Sujatha's demise last week, I had remembered his writings I came across through "Ananda vikatan". His writing style, so simple and beautiful, made me one of his numerous fans. I've read few of his short stories, science fictions, novels of which I loved his "Srirangathu Devathaigal". Right from Sangam literature to modern writings, he had discussed on so many topics. He had even played a part in the production of film on Bharathiyar, "Bharathi" by Gnanarajasekaran.His love and works for Tamil cannot be forgotten easily. He left a space that cannot be filled.

I cannot write more than the articles given below.

A tribute from writer S.Ramakrishnan.

See the last meeting of Desikan with him @ Apollo here.

See Kamal's tribute to him here.

-NSR.

Geographical - Photographer of the year

I read about Senthilkumaran in "Ananda Vikatan" a month back. Just now thought of searching for his photo winning the "Photographer of the year" from "Royal Geographical Society".

You can read the article that came in "The hindu". All the best, Senthil..

- NSR.

Nandi hills trip

In the month of december, we (myself, Nishanth, Ranjith) made a bike trip to Nandi hills. The road is so nice that we didn't feel any problem at all. Nandi hills is 65 kms from Bangalore and can be reached by NH7 (Bangalore - Hyderabad). It is 1500 m above sea level. Monkey menace is so much over there and the place is not promoted by tourism department. Though it is a beautiful place which has some spots like Tippu drop, Nandi temple, Siva temple, Fort to see. Its a trip I enjoyed much. Some of the pictures taken during the trip can be found @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsraman/tags/nandihills

- NSR.

Flickr..

I've uploaded some of my photos in Flickr..

- NSR.