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Nissim Ezekiel - poet who toched with simple words

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I am Alone You are Alone Let us be Alone together Today, Nissim Ezekiel, marathi speaking Bene Israel Jewish community poet passed away. During early 80's, I spent lot of time improving my english langauage fluency and would resort to reading articles on litearture in Times of India and Mid Day. Name Ezekiel often would figure on these pages where he penned his thoughts on various lierary work. He was one person whose english was easy to understand. What I liked about Ezekiel's poetry was his expression of simple aspects of life like love, loneliness, lust,human fallacies in simple and easy to read english. He defied my logic that your literary skills are judged by bombastic words you use. Only later, when i read his thoughts , I learnt his narration for his using simple indian english. Quote : "It all started as a comment by a friend who said that you write in English no doubt and you write English well but you don't seem to even knowor realise that thousand

RD musical genius

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Even though RD is not with us for past 10 years, a day is not passed when his music is not part of our daily musical existence. His music mesmerism can only be exemplified with his fan following ranging from next generation kids to senior citizens. These days when every second day, so called ‘popular remix’ is churned out from his songs and played on FM with an ludicrous attempt to mount DJ on musical pedestal without due recognition to the original composer, it cause great anguish to genuine music lovers. Few days ago I was part of our gathering in Dubai to remember RD on his death anniversary on Jan 4th. The impact of this nostalgia took me to check if there was any review done on RD on http://www.mouthshut.com/ . I was elated to find his name under category of ‘movie personality’ but was dismayed to find the place devoid of any remarks or comments. It is too childish of me to write about RD and his music. I would like to invite music lovers on http://www.mouthshut.com/ to the webs