A day of findings..?!

There have been a lot of thoughts going on that I have been confused as to which one to blog about :) Finally the most recent one was just too exciting to write about.
It started with me listening to Zorro theme after a very long time. The sad strain in it was so beautiful and I suddenly realized that it was none other than our very own charukesi(of course one small Ri at the very end was out) - the traditional sad strain ragam that is also used for expressing deep emotions. A very touching ragam. For those who are unfamiliar with the ragam some examples are vasantamullai pole vandhu, manmadha leelai, edho edho ondru.
It made me start thinking about what western scale would actually result in this ragam(recently I am on to scales in my western violin classes and my Sir has started to tell scales as ragam to me as I am still stuck with swaram :) ). For example C scale A note to A note is natabhairavi, in keyboard terms all white keys from A to A. I am sure somebody with good western theory knowledge would have just shouted it out the charukesi equivalent at this point but I am just a beginner so here is what I did -
I started with all the basic scales and trying to visualize all the notes in them. More from the view of the exact intervals needed for the ragam. Thats when i suddenly struck a scale with gowri manohari at A melodic minor. Of course you can get gowri manohari at any minor scale. And thats where raga bedham came in.
Thinking of gowri manohari Pa as Sa, we get charukesi. The intervals of one's SRGM is the same as the others PDNS and vice-versa. This again is quite a known fact but yes, it helped me in this particular chain of thought and brought me to A's Pa thts E.
So E to E in A minor and here i suddenly realized dominant 7th in the key of A is actually the same but without Ri Ma and Da. The best part was my sir taught me that one as starting on any scale's fifth note S G2 P N1 S N1 P G2 M1 will be dominant 7th in the key of the scale M :) He seems very much tuned to my swara style learning of western.
Anyways my final conclusion for the day was when analyzing something we miss the obvious most of the times :) ( I know it sounds a little like a Poirot dialogue - been reading a lot of Poirot lately ;) )