Hyderabad blog

The Hyderabad houses , some of them, have a character of their own.The house on the screensaver on the current desktop of my computer reminds me of the some of the banjara hills houses.I must ask Radhika to paint for me a house , a typical old house of Hyderabad. The beauty of the house lies in the way it merges into the surroundings, more particularly in the way the shadows of the house merge imperceptibly into the garden around the house and the gravelled pathways .It is as though the house has always been there , an inseparable fixture on the surroundings.

The whole of Andhra Pradesh has been reeling under severe heat conditions.The city has started becoming very very warm in the early morning itself.The last two days have seen some gentle breeze blowing.The gul mohur is blazing red .The reflected light of the searing heat outside has created a luxurious ambience in my bedroom ideal for a midday snooze.Holidays are now few and far between .Sundays are therefore more eagerly awaited than earlier.

Yesterday we saw the performance of a dance-drama called "CHAKORI" at the Ravindra Bharati .It was a slick enactment with an extremely talented Kuchipudi artiste doing the lead role of Chandramutta , the chief protagonist.The choreography was one of the finest I have ever seen .It was a memorable performance .

Yesterday we visited the Salar Jung Museum .The Museum has some of the finest painting s by western painters.One was a painting depicting a naked dead woman on whom five or six medical professionals are working . The corpse of the woman reminded me about the naked woman's corpse which I had seen years ago in the Cuttack Medical College lab waiting to be dissected. The painting is stunningly beautiful.