Dear Basha I think its better to get the same Outlook Magazine in Tamil and pass on the news as it is to you. I havent done Translating from English to Tamil till date.
Will check out for the Tamil Version of the Magazine On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM, hassan basha <[email protected]> wrote: > dear vithur, > > thanks for your reply., i need english article in tamil or hindi. and > please record the live progam felicitation of arr in suntv program. > > it will be helpfull for us those who have working in abroad > regards > > basha > > > --- On *Sat, 2/28/09, Vithur <[email protected]>* wrote: > > From: Vithur <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [arr] request for hindi r tamil translation > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 9:46 PM > > Do you want this English Article to be translated into Tamil ? > > > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:37 PM, hassan basha <ush_ba...@yahoo. > com<[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> can any one translate in tamil or hindi please my kind request..... >> >> --- On *Sat, 2/28/09, Srini Santhanam <saint.sirin@ >> gmail.com<[email protected]> >> >* wrote: >> >> From: Srini Santhanam <saint.sirin@ gmail.com <[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [arr] At Which Time Dilip Became Rahman >> To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com <[email protected]> >> Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 8:36 PM >> >> There is so much to learn from Rahman - the human being isnt it? to be >> half as good as him is great enough. >> On Feb 28, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Gopal Srinivasan wrote: >> >> >> At Which Time Dilip Became Rahman >> >> The Music and the Maker, the maestro's faith in Islam has found the twain >> makes for perfect >> consonance >> >> SHEELA REDDY ON A.R. RAHMAN >> Meeting someone for an hour-long interview is no entry ticket to a man’s >> soul, but with A.R. >> Rahman it seemed like that. The first time I met him was in November ’98 >> when he’d come to >> Delhi to accept a Channel V viewers’ award for most popular track of the >> year. Some three >> million viewers had voted for him, which wasn’t surprising, considering >> how his music was >> already conquering the film world, both in Tamil and Hindi. But what was >> unusual was the song >> this post-Chitrahaar, Def Leppard-adoring generation chose as their >> favourite song of the year, >> Vande Mataram. By then, a countrywide row had broken out over the >> compulsory singing of this >> ‘national song’ in schools, but Rahman’s popular, flag-waving rendering of >> it (Maa Tujhe >> Salaam) was met everywhere, especially among the young, with foot-tapping >> enthusiasm. I had to >> find out for myself how this young man with Jesus Christ locks, blue jeans >> and Muslim name had >> so cleverly subverted the mullahs and the Hindu fundoos by getting a whole >> generation hooked to >> it. >> That’s the best part of being a journalist, even a freelance one—you can >> go with a question to >> anyone, anywhere, and get your answer straight from the horse’s mouth. If >> you know how to reach >> it, of course. Rahman was easy—I just had to call the Channel V pro. >> Within hours, I was >> sitting in a hotel suite with this quiet young man with large, still eyes >> and hands, dressed >> all in black—black jacket, black trousers, black shoes—chatting not only >> about the genesis of >> his award-winning song (the brainchild of ad film buddy Bharatbala—they >> both wanted to create a >> song that would make patriotism hip). But as often happens in such moments >> of enforced >> intimacy, we ended up talking of much more. Such as how he converted to >> Islam 10 years earlier, >> when he was 21. >> >> It started, he said, when his father was dying. Rahman was only 11 years >> old then, the middle >> child between two sisters. Having tried everything else and failed, the >> family turned to a >> local pir. "My father was very ill then, bed-ridden, and the pir sahib >> couldn’t do anything for >> him at that last stage." But even after his father died, Rahman’s family >> still turned to the >> pir for emotional support. And then one day, nearly 10 years later, the >> pir sahib came to >> Rahman’s home. "He blessed a room which is very special to me because my >> father died in it, and >> which I had turned into my studio. The pir sahib said we were destined to >> go through some >> unique experiences, including much suffering, and some very hard times." >> His prophecy had a >> curious effect on Rahman: "The moment he said that and blessed the room, I >> felt such peace. As >> if everything had become green, and my whole life had started afresh." >> >> Within six months, the pir was dead, but the mystical power he had >> unleashed on the family >> lived on. That’s when Rahman says the family decided to embrace Islam. "I >> felt that, OK, this >> feeling that I have is God. It’s not about Hindu or Muslim or anything, >> but there is that one >> feeling, and that is God." It was not anything dramatic, he explained, >> "like it is in films". >> >> "It would be hypocritical, " he felt, with the dawning of this feeling, if >> he didn’t change his >> name. And so, Dilip Kumar became Allah Rakha Rahman at the age of 21. For >> Rahman and his >> family, the conversion was more a change in their attitude to God than >> anything else. "In >> fact," he pointed out, "if you take ancient Hindu scriptures, the Rig >> Veda, it says God is >> one." It’s the mystical aspects of the namaaz that he valued the most, >> Rahman said. "Prayer is >> more like a meditation for me. And it helps me clean my inner self. I go >> through death five >> times a day when I pray and I am born again. When I start, I feel I am >> dead and my soul has >> departed and when I finish my prayers I am back.I am born again." >> >> Is it like that each time, I wanted to know. He laughed at my atheist’s >> curiosity. "I try to >> make it like that each time, but sometimes there is so much turmoil in the >> head, so much >> happening... ." And what if he’s recording when it’s time for his prayers? >> "I have a small >> prayer room next to the studio, and my sister takes over the recording >> till my prayers are >> done." And if he’s travelling? "I carry my prayer mat wherever I go." >> >> In all faith: with wife Saira >> >> Did it make any difference, getting work as A.R. Rahman instead of Dilip >> Kumar? "In my field," >> he said, "it doesn’t matter whether you are Hindu or Muslim. If you are >> good, you stay; if you >> are bad, you get thrown out." On the other hand, he said, his new religion >> helped him get the >> right attitude to work: to keep his sense of balance and distance. "It’s >> your attitude in life >> that brings you success," he said. "So I’ve taken (from Islam) whatever >> helps me to get into >> that attitude." His music and Islam became inextricably linked together. >> >> Interview over, Rahman started his own grilling. I was working then for a >> street children’s >> organisation and he wanted to know more. It’s written in the Quran, he >> said, that a person must >> donate one-third of his earnings to charity, and he was always on the >> lookout for deserving >> organisations he could send a donation to. Soon he left to catch a plane, >> and I forgot about >> the promise. Until several months later, when there was a call from his >> office in Chennai: >> could I please tell them who Mr Rahman should send a cheque to? The cheque >> arrived, I forget >> for how much—Rs 1 lakh, I think, or more. But what touched me most was >> that he should remember, >> and had taken the trouble. >> >> We met again four years later. By then Rahman had film producers queueing >> up night and day at >> his state-of-the- art studio in Chennai, and was also a world celebrity, >> having worked with >> Andrew Lloyd Webber, Michael Jackson and J Lo. When we arrived at his >> hotel room, a pretty >> young woman was slipping out. "A girlfriend," guessed the photographer, >> experienced in the ways >> of celebrity lifestyles. "Probably a journalist," I said, not wanting the >> pir-like man I >> remembered to have gone the way of other film celebrities. >> >> It was November ’02, possibly the worst time in independent India’s >> history to be a Muslim. The >> talk inevitably strayed to what it must be like to be a Muslim in these >> post-Gujarat riots >> time. But he had no regrets: "You can’t change your identity just because >> of politics," he told >> me wisely. "I am also a Tamilian—I can’t say, no, I won’t be a Tamilian >> because I may be >> mistaken for the LTTE." >> >> He was still devoutly religious, insisting that it was what inspired his >> life and music. >> "Within religion’s boundaries, I am very free. It helps me to take success >> and failure in a >> balanced way, rather than jumping up and down or brooding." >> >> The mystery woman returned, possibly because we were lingering for longer >> than either she or >> Rahman had anticipated. But he didn’t introduce her to us, and all of us >> complied silently with >> the rules of mental purdah that he set: pretending as if there was a wall >> between her and us. >> >> But today, watching her walk the red carpet arm in arm with Rahman, I know >> who she is: his >> wife, Saira. And thank (his) God that he hasn’t changed. >> >> http://www.outlooki ndia.com/ fullprint. asp?choice= 1&fodname= 20090309& >> fname=Cover+ Story&sid= >> 5<http://www.outlookindia.com/fullprint.asp?choice=1&fodname=20090309&fname=Cover+Story&sid=5> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > regards, > Vithur > > > > > > -- regards, Vithur
