“I would love to see my New Year come through on the dance floor, I love celebrating life!” says 32-year-old R. Sudhindra, an HAL employee who holds a Masters in English Literature and Diploma in HR. A gritty man, Sudhindra, a visually impaired by birth, can play on nine musical instruments, all of which he learnt on his own. He has also penned 300 poems in English.
His energy can be infectious, his ear for varied music and his eagerness to showcase his flair is apparent when he picks up one instrument after another for demonstration... German flute, Irish Pan-pipe, Harmonica, Melodeon, Morching, three variants in Pungi and the Keyboard for Martin Luther King’s “We shall overcome” followed by Kannada, Hindi and English songs. “My dream is to set up a music library,” he says.
“I listen to all forms of music from Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Kannada, Hindi, and English to Bhavageethe, says Sudhindra, his wacky side too mirroring soon. “I was lucky to be the only boy amongst 49 girls when I was pursuing my post graduation. I was called College Krishna!” Sudhindra can astound anyone with his familiarity in literature, poems, music and his interests in travel in spite of being visually impaired since birth.
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“The fight I had with my granny as a three-year-old when she could not play a cassette for me pushed my father to buy me a Harmonica, and that set the beginning for my interests in music, says Sudhindra whose speciality lies in studying the instrument and learning on his own. “I’m glad my parents, Ranganath Rao and Udayakumari, did everything perfect for me starting with me being part of an integrated school where I wasn’t made to feel ‘left out,’ says Sudhindra, all set to publish his set of poems on love and nature.
With a passion for travel, nature, poems, quizzing, reading and mimicry, he says: “I can ‘see and experience’ more with my extra sensory perception, I can’t ask for more,” slipping into ‘Kay Zara Zara’ on his Irish flute. .