If one is into philosophy and nature and happens to visit South India without the intent of the usual consumeristic sight-seeing, I'd recommend them to visit the Krishnamurti Study Centre. It's quite a spiritual experience sitting in that room [the third pic] .
@ Nathalie: Well, it's kinda very basic from the forum point of view but this was the third and final installment to a series of lectures I'd done on many things heavy metal as well as culture in general. It was dispelling many ridiculous misnomers such as Metal = mass junkie movement and the mutual exclusivity of traditional cultures and
western heavy metal and also how we're supposedly misanthropes indulging in arson. I also explained how it's an entire universe with people divided on political, religious, ethical, intellectual [we do have beer-belly 'we're metchulll, yeaaaaah!!' guys on one hand and introspective, intelligent people like Steven Wilson on the other] and even musical terms, how one could find elements of virtually any form of music with the X factor namely metal. I even showed how that could change the dynamics of the same song [Sapari]. I also did quite a bit of OL propaganda spread
But maybe it's not propaganda when I openly say that I'm doing that intentionally. I touched on virtually everything serious that happens in this little community of ours, including that little incident on the facebook page. I had done quite a bit on the Mabool triangle and the conflict of it's constituents, etc etc last time around but this time 'Lay down your swords... ' and the photo had a greater impact.
Orphaned Land's approach to metal and Kobi's contribution in the form of the words he said on the Global Metal documentary changed the views of quite a few parents and teachers. I was quite touched when a parent
actually wrote a little poem called ' The Warrior Of Light ' at this big cultural programme the next day [which needs a bit of a mention later
]. Egotistical I might be, I'm glad I'm somehow pitching in with spreading the word.
I like speaking in front of a crowd
I may forget things that I had planned to say as a result of not maintaining pointers or having written down a script, but that's not my style. I somehow feel the emotion isn't conveyed while reading out of paper and that little extra emotion scores over the tad bit of information.
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P.S. Thanks Anton for sharing Michael Levy's rendition of the Hurrian Hymn, that was quite a hit!
