R.I.P. Tanta
Doris Dungey, or "Tanta" of Calculated Risk fame, passed away on Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. She died of ovarian cancer, aged 47.
Tanta's posts educated me about the U.S. mortgage market, and her "Ubernerd" posts have been phenomenal. She was a remarkable teacher, and she's inspired people all over the world, me included.
This is indeed a sad day. Rest in Peace, Tanta. You will live on, in our hearts. Truly, today, we are all subprime.
3 Comments:
Hi,
I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be very good.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘The Unknown Indian’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too;
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)
Cheers,
Ray
... and a few days back, MJ passed away.
My first memories of MJ goes back to school days. Sharma (No one knows his first name. He was, I think, KG Sharma. We called him Khat Golt. He had no other name, like Kramer) gave us his 100-toothed grin and was impressed how MJ thanked his parents and his school teacher and the rest. "He is so sweet no?", said KG. For, MJ was receiving the Grammy or some other such inane award.
Boltz laughed sarcastically. That is the only laugh that Boltz knew - the sarcastic one. I squirmed. Born with Carnatic music, brought up with RDB and settled with Gulzar stuff, I couldn't really connect to MJ's music per se. But then, those moves!
Boltz is a hard-core Ilayaraja fan. I use hard-core as a "hypo"-bole. Boltz wouldn't even listen to Rahman, leave alone RDB. All the same, I couldn't help feeling for Boltz. When it comes to music (of the hearing kind, not the watching kind), MJ really doesn't have much.
Well, on that day, between Ilayaraja, Thyagaraja and Michael-Ja there was only one of them on TV. KG watched, and the other two were told to "ja".
I have since heard and cherished Thyagaraja in many a concert. TM Krishna, MSS, or Bombay Jayashree .. they have made him immortal.
Ilayaraja will live on in my (and many others') heart for the new-age melody he created.
But the Indian world and I will also remember MJ for the legacy he left behind in the form of Prabhu Deva.
MJ's dead. Long live MJ!
As they say, for good measure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
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