Relationships...
Back from a great trip to JLR Old Magazine House, Ganeshgudi, Karnataka…but more about that later. A series of misunderstandings , and a song that my friend Pavitra Jayaraman sent me, set me musing on relationships, and how proper communication is vital…
Here’s the original:
And, though I do not like remixes usually, this one is an extremely melodious capella:
The lyrics, with a rough translation:
Uravugal thodar kathai unarvugal siru kathai
Relationships are serial stories; feelings are short stories
Oru kathai yendrum mudiyalam
A story may end any day
Mudivilum ondru thodaralaam
One might continue at the end of another
Iniyellam sugame
All will be fine now
Un nenjile baaram unakagave naanum
Your heart is heavy….for you, I too
Sumai thaangiyaai thaanguven
Will bear your load like a sumaithaangi (roadside load-bearing stones)
Un kangalin oorum yedarkagavo eeram
Why the moisture at the corners of your eyes?
Kaneerai naan maatruven
I will change those tears
Vedanai theeralam verum pani vilagalam
Pain may cease…the mist might clear
Venmegame puthu azhagile naanum inayalaam
Oh,white cloud….I might meld, too, in the new beauty
Vaazhvenbatho geetham valarkindratho naanam
Life..it is a song…shyness..it grows
Naal ondrilum aanandam
Happiness, any day
Nee kandatho thunbam ini vaazhvellam inbam
What you’ve seen is suffering…now, all of life will be blissful
Suga raagame aarambam
A new melody of comfort begins
Nathiyile puthu punal kadalile kalanthadu
The new reeds in the river have mixed with the sea
Nam sondamo indru inaindathu inbam piranthathu
The relationship between us…it has united, today…bliss has been born