Beatles Ashram
I remember a small headline - a news item in the 80s when I was 15 - a Christian evangelist shoots down John Lennon screamed the paper. While the world was upended, those words barely caused a tremor in mine. My Beatles journey hadn’t yet begun. My foray into Western music coincided with my Engineering college entry. From then onwards, I listened in rapt attention to the undeniably inspiring words and sounds of several great artists, including The Beatles. Music stayed with me throughout college, marriage, and kids. Our son developed a great interest in Western music, and interestingly, he didn’t seem bogged down by the decade or genre. He listened with a keen ear, curiosity, and a now-alien youthful desire to provide wide-eyed commentary on the artistic liberties used by each musician to produce that work of art. A repeat flick here, an innovative bass line there, the intricacies in each piece of work were dwelled upon and appreciated. In 2023, he returned to India for that...