My Violin Story

The year was 2002. I had been crazy for a few months. I was on a liberal cocktail of psychotropic drugs and mental torture. For some reason this song kept playing on TV. I had never watched TV regularly in the then past. TV had opened up a new world to me. Things I thought for years were normal were revealed to be horrendous, my life had turned up-side-down. And this kept playing on the music channels.

Band: Bond
Album: Shine
Track: Shine

I have to admit, they are good. Classical crossover thought talked about a lot is done rarely, rarer is it done with style. I liked the music. I liked the beautiful girls too.

Perhaps, it was the lament of the violins, perhaps, the music resonated in me, perhaps, the girls [both Indian and gori] were beautiful, perhaps I listened to it too much, perhaps it was the Indian theme, perhaps it was the happy ending, perhaps it was the wedding in the warehouse, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps....

I wanted to learn to play the violin. 

Thus, began my relationship with instrumental music. It must be said, I am  musically challenged. I find it difficult to appreciate it. I don't easily see the intricacies of in it. I find it difficult to identify with it. I argue it may be because I was exposed to no music as a child or for that matter not even as a foetus. Music, I anticipate, will always be an uphill task for me, unlike the written word, but this is the story of how I was introduced to the violin.