Melancholia

As I sit on the keyboard today, my mind is ruffled seeing a musical reality show on the Asianet channel on TV. It was an elimination round and four out of the eight contestants, who were in the danger zone after the ninth stage, have been shown the door. Their parting words tugged at something deep within and my heart really went out to them. May the best one win amongst the remaining ones and I wish that all those who’ve been eliminated will definitely find new avenues opening their way, they’ll work harder and carve a niche for themselves eventually – that’s the law of nature and the cosmic truth!
After my evening walk, I’d to visit the nearby market to fetch some photographs and as I was driving, the song that was playing on the FM was the late Nazia Hassan’s ‘Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye’ from the 1982 hit ‘Qurbani’. Nazia Hassan was a strikingly good looking girl, born and brought up in London, and this was her debut number. She’d a promising career but her life was cut short by cancer. A similarly sad ending befell another favourite singer of mine – Karen Carpenter, who’d immortalized the album ‘Carpenters’ with her brother. God definitely played spoilsport on the lives of these two gifted singers. But having said that, I must reiterate that they shall always remain immortal in the minds and hearts of mankind through their hauntingly melodious voice.