Hello Ronojoy, Thanks for the clarifications. I remember reading a biography on Rahman long time back and like me whosoever has read it, is aware of this "in general" BUT your new input certainly adds to the correctness !
FRANKLY, Rahman's or to the matter of fact, any person's religion or his religious beliefs should not be a matter of discussion as you rightly said. It is something very personal and individual matter as each one of us looks to various routes to achieve inner peace. As the famous sanakrit verse says ( in part) "Sarve devo namaskaraha, Keshavam prati gacchati !" Generally Means > " Even if one tries various routes and ways to reach the mountain peak, ultimately you do reach there, because there is only one peak to a mountain !" Call that power any name, still it does wonders. So a rose by any other name still smells sweet, just like Rahman's music...... Rightly said by you, Religion is better not discussed on this forum. Best regards Dinesh Vaidya Pune --- In [email protected], "Ranojoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I would never discuss these things here, but I owe it to A R > that I must clear obvious mistakes. > I must say that some of the info is pretty close to the actual > story, but isn't. Abdul Qadir Jeelani is a Muslim scholar from many > centuries ago, so the name of the guy is Kareemullah I think (I > think AR had KM studio in his honor). > The name issue I have discussed before. His name was originally > Abdur-Rahman or Abdul Rahman. For Roja, not his mom but K. > BALACHANDER requested that he use the muslim name. So A R R wanted > to use ONLY the initials A R as it sounded cool :) But Balachander > liked the ring of A R Rahman, and A R became Allah-Rakha which again > is actually a single name. > I know it sounds pretty fantastic, but this is the real story. I > hope you have seen in the past 6 1/2 years that I don't post > inaccurate info about A R :) > > --- In [email protected], Rahmaniac⢠<himmathwala@> > wrote: > > > > I understand most of us are not completely aware of the series of > events happened during those 10 transition years...so, someone in a > blog nicely wrote the details... > >
