yay!
A very very sweet and brilliant young boy named Fateen from Bangalore will be coming to stay with us in August. His father is an anesthetist, mother is forensic medicine. He is a music prodigy and a mentor for antu. He has recently given his JEE entrance and his dream is to be in IIT. I am sort of a surrogate mother to all the musician kids from around India who come to Mumbai, and alot of them come over for meals/ practice/ occasionally stay. Stay i do only for a few because then I sleep in the room with my kids on the floor, and give them my bedroom with a bed, since they are guests. So it's a bit annoying because sharing a room with puru is like sleeping with all the weathers. He's a bloody sleep walking/ talking nuisance! Anyway, Fateens mom Asma and I have become very close, so I will do anything for him and his sister, and he is performing in Mumbai in August and needs a piano to practice and three hot meals. Other than that, all the boys who have come so far are mutes like my own two, all the girls are chatty like myself. It makes for hilarious conversation!
What a brilliant boy, this Fateen! To be able to manage entrance exams and piano at such an extremely proficient level!! My only sorry is that he will take IIT, become a venture capitalist, and his piano will lie in his house, like mine. The dreams muffle with time, money becomes more and more tempting, and the high of Chopin gets replaced with Shopping, and capitalism eats the artist's soul!
How much I tell Asma to let him be a musician!!