Dear Friends, Family, and Fans;
I hereby present you with a personal newsletter of my journey in the land of mystical rivers that sometimes appear to fall from the sky. Calcutta, the city that has sheltered me for the last three weeks, has had torrents of rain for the past four days. A large portion of the city was floating in sometimes more than waist-high water--though not so mystical when mixed with city sludge.

Enough of the rivers from the sky; I must explain to you the name of my Blog. It was the first thing I thought of, and it brings together three themes. Firstly, this blog is a way for you all to venture on this journey along with me, just like fans sing a song along with the singer. It is there for a sing-a-long, but since it's a log, it's a sing-a-log. That fact is pretty obvious. Secondly, the theme of singing is not random; one of my future topics of research will be Bengali devotional singing, and for this reason I am in Calcutta refining my Bengali. Thirdly, sing-a is a sort of English pronunciation of Simha, which means lion in Sanskrit, and is the theme of the latter part of this journey, on Nrsimhadev.
So, singing and logging, I present to you my journey.
Nila.