Basics of Carnatic Music

There are 7 notes in Carnatic music, these are Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Da and Ni.
These are also called sapthaswaras (saptha means seven , swaras mean notes).
Every song has a shruthi (pitch) in which it is rendered.
This shruthi is comprised of 3 notes - either Sa, Pa , Sa (for panchamam-based shruthi) or Sa, Ma, Sa for madhyamam-based shruthi.
A raga is a combination of swaras in the Aarohana (ascending order of swaras) and Avarohana (descending order of swaras).

Introduction - 3s of U

An important part of working together is understanding each other better. Below mentioned are the 3 things about yourself..you need to do for 10 areas.

Three names I go by -
Nikhil
Niks
NRC/NC

Three places I have lived in
Hyderabad
Mumbai
Sydney

Three favorite drinks
Filter Coffee
Lemon water ( without sugar)
Adrak Chai

Three of my favorite  foods
Rasam Rice
Makai Roti and Sarsoo saag
Mushroom corn masala

Three non living things I adore
Bike
Camera
Laptop

Three fav singers living ( male)
Mohit Chauhan
Atif Aslam
Sonu Nigam

Three fav singers living (female)
Lata
Asha
Sunidhi Chauhan

Three places I look forward to visit
Ladak
Kerala
Sikkim

Three things which I want to change in 2011
Be more clean - Desk/home
More disciplined and planned
More clam and patient

Three fav quotes
"If doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do in Happiness"
"Defeat is not the worst of failures, having not tried is a true failure"
"Even this will pass through"

Poem

Road Not Taken

Below mentioned is a poem which I guess all of us would had read in school

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

This has been my favourite poem since childhood, so I thought I will pen my own version.

My version.....

Decisions in life- at times simple, at times tuff

At times taken by others, at times for others

Do I follow others, or do I ask for someone to decide

Or do I just flip a coin, and then let the Probability law decide.

Neither of them I do, I just follow my heart,

For even if it goes wrong, it doesn’t tear me apart.

Whatever way it goes, were ever it takes me,

Whatever I do, it sure will help me,

For if it is right, it adds to the success.

And if it wrong, it adds the experience.