{"id":4374,"date":"2012-01-16T00:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2012-01-16T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:54:17","slug":"i-have-fourteen-minutes-fifty-eight-and-a-half-seconds-left-in-my-allotment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/i-have-fourteen-minutes-fifty-eight-and-a-half-seconds-left-in-my-allotment\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Fourteen Minutes, Fifty-Eight and a Half Seconds Left In My Allotment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend posted this clip on Facebook, and something about the scene rang a bell.<\/p>\n<p>Ah-hah!  It was the first half of the &#8220;Concert For National Integration&#8221; at Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay on Republic Day, 1986.  I was in the audience; I had traveled from Pune along with Bhimsenji, who was singing a duet with Balamurali Krishna in the second half of the event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgYVN5L3DJU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why is it interesting?  I mean, honestly, most of these Hindustani\/Carnatic jugalbandis aren&#8217;t that satisfying.  This one&#8217;s no exception; I&#8217;m including it in this post for the sake of completeness.  The whole ending frenzy is IMO totally inexcusable.<\/p>\n<p>The next day Bhimsenji and his accompanists flew back to Pune; I was a member of the party.  I received more than the usual amount of respect from airport personnel, who seemed to go out of their way to greet me courteously.  On arriving in Pune I found out why.<\/p>\n<p>Doordarshan&#8217;s cameraman had found me in the crowd, and given me a full-face closeup, which is reproduced at 33:47 in the televised video:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i614.photobucket.com\/albums\/tt226\/WarrenSenders\/WBombay1986.jpg\"width=450\/><\/p>\n<p>I was famous!<\/p>\n<p>On seeing this, my wife commented that I looked like someone who was forcing himself to enjoy something against his own will.  That sounds about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend posted this clip on Facebook, and something about the scene rang a bell. Ah-hah! It was the first half of the &#8220;Concert For National Integration&#8221; at Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay on Republic Day, 1986. I was in the audience; I had traveled from Pune along with Bhimsenji, who was singing a duet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,34,7,9,310],"tags":[1063,1064],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-india","category-indian-music","category-music","category-personal","tag-doordarshan","tag-unanticipated-celebrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}