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Flickr Photostream via Blogspot

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Venkatesh Prasanna's photostream on Flickr. Here are some of the photos I had uploaded on Flickr, being shared via the new Blogger integration...

In the spell of Charukeshi - Part 5

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Can't seem to get enough of Raga Charukeshi, here is the 5th installment, as I find a few more gems, starting with a customary Malayalam movie song. Malayalam movies have embraced Charukeshi like no other it seems, and the "K J Yesudas - Lord Krishna - Charukeshi" combination seems to be just the road to heaven that one is looking for. Obviously, The great Swathi Tirunal looks to have contributed significantly to a revolution in Bhakti through raga Charukesi. 1 .  Yadukula Murali from the Malayalam movie Puthiya Mugham : 2. Ramin Djawdi composes an excellent number for the television series Game of Thrones , with clear inspirations from Charukeshi: 3. Violin Maestros Ganesh and Kumaresh depict the rainy season in raga Charukeshi: 4. Rajnikanth acts as Sri Raghavendra in the Tamil movie of the same name, and Yesudas gets an opportunity to sing in Charukeshi: Related Posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Alan Turing Tribute

"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings." ~ Alan Mathison Turing in "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," section 11: The purpose of ordinal logics (1938), published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, series 2, vol. 45 (1939) "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." Alan Turing Tribute from hmvprasanna on Vimeo .