Recently published:

Height-Challenged (article)
http://www.greatsouthbaymag.com/new/articles.php?atype_id=2&web_print=0&art_id=2503

The House All to Myself! (poem)
http://www.greatsouthbaymag.com/new/articles.php?atype_id=3&web_print=0&art_id=2555

Enjoy!

When the Curtain Falls

http://www.greatsouthbaymag.com/new/articles.php?atype_id=3&web_print=0&art_id=2423

Songs on YouTube from my teen years 

In my ears, not listened to in years,

Take me back to when all those I knew and loved

And loved me back were alive and well.

Now, many of them no more.

When the curtains falls,

(Mind you, eventually, it does).

So, when it does go down

The show is over.

Scene by scene, act by act, the show is over

Mistake ye not,

Scene by scene, act by act, the show is over

When the curtain falls.

Yeah, eventually, it does go down.

In the unscripted play that life is, until the curtain falls

You never know how many acts and how many scenes

You will star in. You may exit mid-way or someone close to you might.

Entrances and exits are the bookends that make a play a play.

Once you exit, you cannot reenter, nor can the actor whom you grew close to as a person.

You may want to, he or she may want to.

But, once that exit door closes behind you, it's closed forever.

You can never de-exit or find the entrance door, no one who exited can.

They are both shut tight.

Now where do you go?

I don't know.

If you find out, let me know.

All I know is once you leave the stage amid whatever act or scene

You are done with your part.

The End

Procrastinaiton

http://greatsouthbaymag.com/new/articles.php?atype_id=3&web_print=0&art_id=2388

Mother's Day, 2015

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/never-enough-quality-time-with-mom-1.10403551

Songs for Mom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dY13ZbI65s           (Shri Visvanatham)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FEJL_kM1Q       (Kanakashaila)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRzsHkSSeto           (Chetashri)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tT-XQYZy7w        (Shri Satya Narayanam)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rvzbmHeyug          (Teliyaleru Rama)


Dasaru Padagalu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBtqOz_mEXs         (Gajavadana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8-f2bRcBac           (Jagadodharana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRSq2WVaEfU       (Elemanave)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onNROFbX7Dg        (Durjana Sanga)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrcL6EHUmto          (Ramakrishnaru)

Fusion (an excerpt form a concert):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSxzUg1gy8

http://www.longislandtraditions.org/artistprofiles/ethnic/ramanathan.html

Kutna Hora, The Squirrel Story, "lao

Recent Published articles:
http://www.wesaidgotravel.com/contests/reality-czech/
http://www.greatsouthbaymag.com/new/articles.php?atype_id=2&web_print=0&art_id=2264
http://www.greatsouthbaymag.com/new/articles.php?atype_id=3&web_print=0&art_id=2321

Newsday OpEd- pieces by yours truly

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/expressway-suddenly-trapped-in-the-deluge-1.9061603
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/a-personal-memory-of-the-9-11-tragedy-expressway-1.9270827
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/for-immigrants-traditions-old-and-new-expressway-1.9517841 Also in print on 10/19/14)
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/america-must-keep-striving-for-greatness-expressway-1.9595946


Cioa!

R.