This Diwali has been extra work for all of us.
There is Dial One aur Jeeto there is the new post produced show with all its taam jaam. and there is the fiction pilot that we are shooting in a week.
Also proposals to go in to prospective clients to whom we have made a pitch.
I think that i need a new life:)

So the only way that we all feel the ‘spirit of diwali’ is sitting outside Film City and watching neighbouring colonies send up rockets and other fire crackers.

For some reason the combination of extra work and the general state of my universe has left me feeling very agitated. I have been missing meditation and prayers for the last 10 days or so – and the peace and balance that i get out of both has been absent. This morning I am attempting a quick fix. M.S.Subhalakshmi followed by Bhimsen Joshi. A good dose of Hanuman Chalisa by the former, followed by Raga Purya Dhanashree by the latter should do the trick, and restore the balance.

(aside: there is something wonderous about MS singing the Hanuman Chalisa – a poem attributed to Tulsidas written in Brij Basa that is sung in a completely carnatic style 🙂