A R Rahman The Spirit of Music - authorized biography of A R Rahman

Hi Guys, could you believe this?

Rahman is about to release his first authorized biography, A R Rahman The Spirit of Music, is going to reveal several shocking things about his fiercely guarded private life.

      Written by renowned historian, Nasreen Munni Kabir. The book reveals the genius behind the soulful music which the maestro belts out. However, what had shocked the writer while she interviewed Rahman over a period of three years was he struggled to understand his life and how he worked hard to find a reason to live. In a startling revelation, the book quotes Rahman of having “suicidal tendencies” when he was young.

     A leading national daily has published a news report about some such startling revelations from the book. Apparently, the book quotes on such incident where Rahman , at one point in time, didn’t want to live and how 1989 was the turning point in his life when his mother sold all the gold jewelers kept aside for the marriage of his younger sisters. 

       Rahman says, “With that money I bought my first Fostex 16-track mixer/recorder. In those days, film music in Chennai was recorded on single mono track and here I had 16 tracks. All those years of struggle, humiliation, being ordered around by other people, seeing worry on the faces of my family, remembering the feeling of being overwhelmed by an inferiority complex, the lack of self-esteem, and even at times, fighting suicidal thoughts – all that seemed to fade away. Sitting in the music studio that night, and staring at my new recorder, I felt like a king. The new me was born and the future seemed glorious.” Nasreen says she was shocked when Rahman spoke of suicidal tendencies and asked him if he really meant it, and he told her, “It felt so hopeless and I often wondered how I was going to get out of all that.” 

      There are many more startling revelations about his private life and when the book hits the stands on April 6, it surely is going to be a best-seller in no time! 

      I am sure that this would have answered many of the unanswered questions which were in your heart for a long time about your future.

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God didn't create the Universe: Stephen Hawking

London:  British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.

The concept is explored in "The Grand Design," excerpts of which were printed in the British newspaper The Times on Thursday. The book, written with fellow physicist Leonard Mlodinow, is scheduled to be published by Bantam Press on September 9"The Grand Design," which the publishers call Hawking's first major work in nearly a decade, challenges Isaac Newton's theory God must have been involved in creation because our solar system couldn't have come out of chaos simply through nature But Hawking says it isn't that simple. To understand the universe, it's necessary to know both how and why it behaves the way it does, calling the pursuit "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/technology/god-didnt-create-the-universe-stephen-hawking-49128?cp "We shall attempt to answer it in this book," he wrote. "Unlike the answer given in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' ours won't be simply '42.'" The number 42 is the deliberately absurd answer to the "Ultimate Question" chosen by sci-fic author Douglas Adams. Hawking, who is renowned for his work on black holes, said the 1992 discovery of another planet orbiting a star other than the sun makes "the coincidences of our planetary conditions far less remarkable and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings." In his best-selling 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," Hawking appeared to accept the possibility of a creator, saying the discovery of a complete theory would "be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God." But "The Grand Design" seems to step away from that, saying physics can explain things without the need for a "benevolent creator who made the Universe for our benefit." "Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing," the excerpt says. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going." Hawking retired last year as the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University after 30 years in the position. The position was once held by Newton.

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/technology/god-didnt-create-the-universe-stephen-hawking-49128?cp