My Story - ISB and beyond !!!: June 2006

My Story - ISB and beyond !!! This blog has now moved to http://ramsabode.wordpress.com
Links Alma Mater: Indian School of Business (ISB) Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) About Life@ISB: Anoop Vijaykumar Bharanidharan V Ford Prefect Raghini Rajaram Raja Banerjee Ram (Thats me) Ramki S Carnatic Music - My Favorites: Vocal Sanjay Subrahmanyan Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer TM Krishna TN Seshagopalan R. Vedavalli Bombay Jayashri Violin Lalgudi Jayaraman M.S.Gopalakrishnan Mridangam My Guru (old site) Palghat Mani Iyer Karaikudi Mani Umayalapuram Sivaraman Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan Ghatam TH Vinayakaram S Karthick Suresh Khanjira G. Harishankar Other Sites/Blogs I visit: Great Bong Indian Economy Blog Malcolm Gladwell Rajdeep Sardesai Rama Bijapurkar Rashmi Bansal World Bank PSD Blog ISB Blogs: Collaborative Blog Class of 2006 Alok on "Learnings from ISB" Alok Srivastava Amit Sharma Ankur Warikoo Anoop Vijaykumar Ashish Pokharna Bharanidharan V Chandrashekar Vattikutti Ford Prefect Gautam Chugani Girishkrishnan A Karthik Ganesan Karthik Ramachandran Manish Madan Nishant Jayaprakash Prameet Kamat Raghini Rajaram Ramki A Rohit Kapoor Ruchir Shah Sandeep Jha Shameek Chakravarty Shankar Prakash J Shilpa Arora Shrutkeerti Khurana Simran Khara Sridhar Katta Suneetha Nagaraj Vaibhav Fadnavis Vijay Mulbagal Vikram Salgaonkar Vineeth Kumar Wife of an ISBian Class of 2007 Abhishek Jain Alok Jain Anuradha Sunku Archana Rao Arun Dhar Chiranth Chanappa Deepak Mittal Disha Rustogi Kapil Mantri Karthik Bharathy Kiran Cavale Kishore Krishna Krishnan Ramaswami Kumar Rajendran Mahesh Shenoy Manu Karan Nikhil Kamma Nikhil Kaushik Piyush Kheria Pratima Jayaram Priyanka Rath Rishik Ghosh Rujuta Sabyasachi Mohanty Santosh BS Satish Udayagiri Sharad Mittal Shivangi Tiwari Sowmya Velayudham Sukalp Sharma Sumit Poddar Sundeep Tibrewal Swapnil Deopurkar Swapnil Nadkar Venkat Raman Vinay Pandey Vithal Donakonda Yashovardhan Gupta	Friday, June 30, 2006 Concert @ Infy, Bangalore Played mridangam accompaniment in a 2 hr carnatic classical concert yesterday at Infosys campus, Bangalore. Details are as follows: Flute: S. Datta Violin: B. Lakshmi Mridangam: R. Ramkumar (thats me) List of songs: 1) Era nApai (varnam) - tOdi - Adi - pattanam subramaniya iyer 2) bAgAyanaiyya - chandrajyOti - Adi - thyAgarAja 3) paridAnamichitE - bilahari - kanda chApu - pattanam subramaniya iyer 4) nenarunchinAnu - mAlavi - Adi - thyAgarAja 5) paramapAvana - pUrvi kalyAni - Adi - pUchi srinivAsa iyengAr 6) thillAna 7) pavamAna - sowrAshtram - Adi - thyAgarAja Hope I didn't miss any songs in the above listing. Lakshmi played the violin really well with beautiful raga alapanas of bilahari and pUrvi kalyAni. I think she has a really bright future in this field. posted by Ram at 12:08 AM 2 comments Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Cricket humor Some light moments from the game Indians are mad about ..... don't know whether these actually happened, but thought these are worth sharing: 1) Boycott was facing a torrid over from Micheal Holding . After playing his first 5 deliveries somehow, he got out bowled the last ball. When Boycott entered the dressing room, one of his teammates remarked something about the supposedly best test opener of his times. Pat came Boycott's reply: "If it wasn't for Boycott, England would have been 0/6 by the end of that over". 2) "Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero." -Viv Richards to Sunil Gavaskar at Madras 1983. Gavaskar had decided to relinquish his opening position and come in at no 4 for that test. But, Malcolm Marshall fired out Anshuman Gaekwad and Dilip Vengsarkar for ducks, setting the stage for Gavaskar to walk in at 0/2. And he thought there would be less pressure! 3) Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 ? ounces." Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground for a 6 and replies, "Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it ! !" 4) Fred Trueman bowling. The batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip, and right between Raman Subba Row's legs. Fred doesn't say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly - "I should've kept my legs together, Fred". The reply is classic Trueman, "Not you son, Your mother should've ! ! " 5) Then there's this wicketkeeper who quietly asked the new batsman: "So how's your wife, and my kids ? ?" Guess who.........Rod Marsh....to Ian Botham!! 6) New Zealand vs South Africa: Daryll Cullinan was batting, attempting a comeback from a complete bamboozling from Warne in earlier games. Cullinan played the first ball from Chris Harris very carefully back down the pitch, and keeper Parore yelled out "Well bowled Warnie !!" 7) Australia fighting for a win nearing the end of a Test Match, Fred Trueman at the crease. The Aus captain has plenty of close in fielders, whose shadows fall on the wicket. Fredie finds this objectionable. 'Ere, if you lads don't back off, I'll appeal for bad light !!" 8) (Incident described in "From the Pavilion End" by Harold "Dickie" Bird) "Bomber" Wells, a spin bowler and great character, played for Glocuestershire and Nottinghamshire. He used to bat at No.11 since one couldn't bat any lower. Of him, they used to paraphrase Compton's famous words describing an equally inept runner; "When he shouts 'YES' for a run, it is merely the basis for further negotiations!" Incidentally, Compton was no better. John Warr said, of Compton "He was the only person who would call you for a run and wish you luck at the same time." Anyway, when Wells played for Gloucs, he had an equally horrendous runner as the No.10. During a county match, horror of horrors.......both got injured. Both opted for runners when it was their turn to bat. Bomber played a ball on the off, called for a run, forgot he had a runner and ran himself. Ditto at the other end. In the melee, someone decided that a second run was on. Now we had all four running. Due to the confusion and constant shouts of "YES" "NO", eventually, all of them ran to the same end. Note: At this point in time, the entire ground is rolling on the floor laughing their behinds out. One of the fielders - brave lad - stops laughing for a minute, picks the ball and throws down the wicket at the other end. Umpire Alec Skelding looks very seriously at the four and calmly informs them "One of you buggers is out. I don't know which. You decide and inform the bloody scorers !" posted by Ram at 10:27 AM 4 comments Monday, June 26, 2006 R. Vedavalli @ BTM Cultural Academy, Bangalore "Sangeetha Kalanidhi" Smt R. Vedavalli sang to a packed house on Saturday at Sri Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, 3rd Cross, 3rd Phase, J.P.Nagar, Bangalore. The concert was organized by BTM Cultural Academy. Strict adherence to tradition, step-by-step build up of raga alapanas with all important patterns covered were the highlights of the concert. In short, an enjoyable evening of classical music for the audience and a great learning opportunity for any (young) musicians present there. Here are the details: Vocal: Smt R. Vedavalli Accompaniment: Vocal Support: Sumathi Krishna Violin: Charulata Ramanujam Mridangam: Arjun Kumar Ghatam: Sukanya Ramagopal List of songs: 1) sAmininnE nEla (varnam) - kannada - Adi - ? 2) mahAganapathim - nAttai - chatusra Eka - muthuswAmi dIkshitar 3) divAkaratanujam - yadukula kAmbOji - chatusra Eka - muthuswAmi dIkshitar 4) mErusamAna - mAyAmAlavagowla - dEsAdi - thyAgarAja 5) nIvada nEgAna - sAranga - kanda chApu - thyAgarAja 6) chEtasri - dwijAvanti - tisra Eka - muthuswAmi dIkshitar 7) O ranga sAyI - kAmbOji - Adi - thyAgarAja 8) na jAnAmi (viruttam) in ragas sAvEri, varAli, kApi, yadukula kAmbOji, sindhubhairavi and surutti, followed by pathiki hArathI - surutti - Adi - thyAgarAja 9) pavamAna (mangalam) - sowrAshtram - Adi - thyAgarAja posted by Ram at 6:32 AM 0 comments Saturday, June 24, 2006 R. Vedavalli - The Living Legend "Sangeetha Kalanidhi" Smt R. Vedavalli (refered to as RV henceforth) is considered to be a living legend. In a career in Carnatic Classical music spanning over five decades, she has enthralled audiences in India and abroad with her staunch adherence to tradition, deep understanding of and vast knowledge about Carnatic music and manodharma (improvisations). Though in her 70s, she continues to give quality concerts even today. Though I had been hearing RV recordings for quite some time, I had never got the chance to attend her live concert. I came to know about a month back that BTM Cultural Academy is organizing her concert in Bangalore and had been eagerly waiting to attend the same since then. Having attended the same today, all I can say is that it was truly a great experience. During my childhood days, whenever I heard old maestros sing, I used to wonder why people liked them so much. The quality of recordings would be poor and All India Radio would add to the woes through its poor broadcasts. A beginner in Carnatic music at that time with no one to teach me the nuances, I would get pissed off upon hearing such recordings. As I started hearing Carnatic vocal more, I learnt more and more by myself and started appreciating the nuances. I then started hearing recordings of old maestros and then realized why they are revered by many even today. For example, we had this old audio cassette of Shri T. N. Seshagopalan (TNS) at home. It was one of the very few audio cassettes we had at that time. The quality of the cassette was not all that good and I could never understand why my father used to praise TNS so much. I happened to hear the cassette again when I was in Class X. Though having heard quite a few musicians till then, I had never heard anything like what TNS had sung in that cassette before. I instantly became a fan of his and he continues to be one of my all-time favorites even today. Coming back to RV ...... will write more about her concert in the next post. posted by Ram at 10:38 PM 0 comments Friday, June 23, 2006 Diary of an MBA Diary of an MBA ..... a hilarious mail I received from a batchmate of mine recently .... couldn't restrain from posting: Dear Diary, I can't hold myself down. My FIRST day on the job!! And I like it already. "Assistant Junior Deputy to the Vice Chairman - Manufacturing". My dad was thrilled when he heard my designation. "What the f!@#!!!" were his exact words. Oh I love it when my parents are happy... Need to meet HR in half an hour. I can't wait to get my first Employee ID Card and cubicle. I hope Parthasarathy Whatayblouse Crappers (PWC) is the beginning of great things. P.S. I have brought my favorite textbooks back from the institute OD, OMand HR should help me grow rapidly in the organization. And I WILL handle soft issues before facing hard issues here at PWC. July 28th Dear Diary, Had a lot of fun with HR yesterday. The guy who had recruited me had left a month ago. So they didn't know I was joining. We had a hearty laugh over that one. I'll get my cubicle in a few days time. For the time being I am sharing a nice one with Claire. She's with Corporate Communication. The phone doesn't work though... August 2nd Dear Diary, Met my boss today. He spent a lot of time with my CV and then asked me how I managed to get a job with them. (Even he knows how lucky they are to get me..) He told me to review our material ordering system in the err... umm... the... the "big yellow and blue noisy machine section" of the plant. Claire is working on an "Our Employees Love Us" campaign. The office boy had just resigned. So she got me to pose with an apron and a tray of cookies for a photo. They are going to call me Ramon and use it for ads. I am going to be famous. August 7th Dear Diary, My first breakthrough. I have decided to order nickel ball bearings using the EQO.. QEO... whatever formula. It takes into account item cost, holding cost and weight of ball bearing I think. The purchase guy gave me a funny look when he saw my annual requisition contract form. He is obviously not an MBA... Claire resigned today. She told me carry on with the "Our Employees Love Us" campaign. P.S. Lesson for the week. You cannot order 0.7564 of a ball bearing. It has to be in whole numbers. August 11th Dear Diary, I just got a shipment of 4384 ball bearings. I checked up with Engineering. They said that should be enough for around 14 years of requirement. I gave them 3 and stashed away the rest in a cupboard in my room. If prices of ball bearings go up, I see a lot of potential savings. I have decided to develop informal channels of communication. From tomorrow I will spend a little time next to the coffee machine to understand the unspoken messages within the underbelly of the firm. (That OD book is good) August 14th Dear Diary, I sent my first official letter today. It was to our Facilities manager Merry Le Bian. She is a hottie. I told her that the Coffee Machine takes too much time to reheat between refills. Wrote it in a WAC format and all with a table of contents and everything. She is sure going to be impressed!! I spell checked it in MS word and emailed it to her an hour ago. No reply yet. They scrapped the "Our Employees Love Us" campaign. The photo shoot was taking up too much time, and people were being forced to stay late without extra pay. Someone finally went and vandalised the banner. It now reads "Our Employers Shove Us". I offered to model for all the snaps and videos. They called me a dickhead. I was delighted. Dickhead is internal slang for "Big Stud". HR told me. Everyone calls me that... P.S. One more shipment of ball bearings came. Again 4384. The contract can't be changed now. I dont have too much space left in my cupboard. August 25th Dear Diary, My letter came back. It had a pink post-it on it from Merry. "Please proofread" it said. It was CC'd to my boss. How was I supposed to know MS Word would spell check her name and change it to Merry Lesbian????!!!! Where's natural justice? Today five minutes before a meeting the cupboard door broke open. It took me ten minutes to pick up all the ball bearings from the floor. I had to run to the board room for the meeting and slipped on a bearing which rolled under the door. I fell on the coffee machine and tipped coffee powder into the polymer mixing matching tray. No one saw anything. P.S. Sorry for the long break. My computer crashed. There was a mail from an old friend. She's now married into the Welchia family I think. Crashed after that. Strange name that Welchia... September 2nd Dear Diary, My boss told me I may not last the probation period. I was mighty thrilled to hear that. Imagine!! Permanent in less than three months!! That should be some sort of company record. I made a presentation to all the staff yesterday. Some300 people were there. I think I sent good vibes. Everyone was smiling and nodding their heads during the presentation. Someone later told me my fly was open the whole time. But I don't think anyone noticed. The presentation was on "An Open Culture: Let the feeling show!!" p.s. 17156 ball bearings. I floated a scheme to give each employee a ball bearing for every year of service. The HR manager immediately convened a meeting with my boss. Every suggestion counts here at PWC. September 4th Dear Diary, I have been transferred to the office in Sub-Saharan Africa. I will be heading the Room Heater and Hot Water Geyser products division. They have also told me to pay for all the ball bearings I bought. I think it speaks much of the entrepreneurial spirit. I have been told to leave immediately for Kujumbinana. P.S. A foreign posting in under a year!!! September 5th Dear Diary, I am in Kujumbinana. We don't have a branch here... posted by Ram at 6:18 AM 2 comments Thursday, June 22, 2006 Hilarious blog Ford Prefect's was the hilarious blog I used to visit a lot till some time back. I do read his blog even now but there is one more that I have been frequenting these days - Great Bong's blog @ http://greatbong.net . I have been hooked to this blog ever since I received a link to a post on the great Mithun da sent by my ISB batchmate Giks. Read the blog to know why. posted by Ram at 8:41 AM 1 comments Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Rudest city in the world? A survey done by the magazine Readers Digest has resulted in amchi Mumbai being termed as the rudest city in the world, when it comes to common courtesy. Sao Paulo and New York have been found to lie at the other end of the spectrum. Click here to read more. Are common courtesies so common in India? Some of them aren't and at least don't seem to be a part of the culture, in general. For example, during the time spent at my previous company and at ISB, I have met or come face to face with a lot of non-Indians. I have observed, for example, that most of the times you pass by an American, he/she will smile and wish you even if he/she is seeing you for the first time. Same thing is true when holding the door for people coming behind you. In general, I have only seen fellow Indians who have been to the US for some time doing the same. Holding the door for others was however a common practice in my previous company. Whenever new recruits came, they would generally not do the same but would start doing so once they saw others in the company doing it. If common courtesy demands a few things which most of us lack, how do we make the change happen? Expecting a person to change on his/her own is a bit difficult, especially because of lack of realization that such courtesies should be extended. A better way probably would be for companies to make their employees aware of these. If more and more people start becoming more courteous through this route or otherwise, others around them might observe and change themselves too. posted by Ram at 9:18 AM 3 comments Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Sikkil Gurucharan @ Music Academy Sikkil Gurucharan performed at the Music Academy Mini Hall in Chennai on Sunday in a 4 hour long Carnatic Classical Vocal Concert organized by Sarvani Sangeetha Sabha. He was accompanied by *S. Varadarajan* on the violin, *K.V. Prasad* on the mridangam and *Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan* on the ghatam. The (partial) list of songs rendered is as follows: 1) ninnukOri (varnam) - vasanthA - Adi - tAchUr singArachAri 2) vakratunda mahAkAya (viruttam) - kAnadA mahAganapathE - kAnadA - rUpakam - kOtIswara iyer 3) paralOka - mandAri - Adi - thyAgarAja 4) kAmAkshi - bhairavi - misra chApu - syAma sAstri 5) nAdha sudhA - Arabhi - rUpaka - thyAgarAja 6) anjezhuthinai - rAgavinodhini - Adi - m m dandapAni dEsikar 7) mAravairi ramani - nAsikAbhUshani - Adi (tisra As) - thyAgarAja 8) ambA nIlAyadAkshi - nIlAmbari - Adi - muthuswamy dIkshitar 9) kaligiyuntE - kIravAni - Adi - thyAgarAja 10) kAnavEndAmO - srIranjani - rUpakam - pApanAsam sivan 11) rAgam tAnam pallavi - kalyAni - misra triputa (pallavi words: un thiruvadiyinai, anudinam thudikka nI, varamarul shanmugA, guruparA, sharavanabhava) Had to leave during the pallavi rendition to catch the train back to Bangalore. *Sikkil Gurucharan* is said to be one of the rising stars in Carnatic music today. He stood true to his reputation delivering a good performance once again. I feel it is just a matter of time before he is recognized in the same league as Sanjay Subrahmanyam and T.M.Krishna, who incidentally are my favorites among the present day singers. S.Varadarajan (violin), I think stole the show. All his experience, having played for so many concerts in the recent past, showed in the way he accompanied Gurucharan during the songs as well as in the way he played raga alapanas, neravals and kalpana swaras. K.V.Prasad and Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan provided good support on mridangam and ghatam. Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan, in some places, played in sync with K.V. Prasad and in others, complemented him well, which made their accompaniment for the songs very pleasing to the ears. All in all, a good kutcheri experience for the rasikas. posted by Ram at 1:04 AM 2 comments Monday, June 19, 2006 A busy weekend Went to Chennai this weekend to spend some time with my parents who had come there but ended up spending most of the time with friends. Met with a few ISB batchmates in Chennai on Saturday. It all started with the 4:15PM show of the Tom Cruise starrer MI-3. The movie is a good timepass with lots of stunts that actors in apna bollywood can use for their films in future. My friends told me that a couple of scenes in the movie looked to have been lifted straight from Captain's (Vijaykanth's) tamil movies. I think bollywood need not look outside the country for stunts anymore. After the movie, we went to Amethyst where we recounted the wonderful days spent at ISB, over coffee. Most of the time was spent talking about Rajani. Though his activities are the usual topic of discussion whenever we all meet, there was lot more excitement in narrating Rajani's escapades as his fiancee had also come with him. The best part is the sporting way in which Rajani takes everything. He would come second only to KP (my quadmate at ISB) in this. We then had dinner in Saravana Bhavan and went to KR's house to watch Ghana thrash Czech Republic in the World Cup. Sunday was spent in buying albums of my favorite singer T.M.Krishna that I do not have in my collection yet and in attending Sikkil C Gurucharan's 4-hour long carnatic vocal concert at the Music Academy Mini Hall. More about the concert in the next post. posted by Ram at 10:04 AM 0 comments Thursday, June 15, 2006 I am connected We have an internet connection at home now and that too one that works real quick. Setting up our home is almost complete except for getting the washing machine to work. Ramki and Kost, my apartment mates went to see the movie Omen yesterday. I couldn't accompany them as I had to go to Chennai for a day to attend a family function and the thought of having real good food and meeting up with my folks was too strong a driver for me to go there. There is apparently a scary scene in the movie that appears all of a sudden and when that scene came, the guy sitting next to Kost (not Ramki) jumped up and grabbed his arm all of a sudden. Poor Kost ... pity his condition .... a scary scene on the screen and some real life scare too. Ramki, I bet would have been busy eating pop-corn and wouldn't have even batted his eyelid. posted by Ram at 9:59 AM 0 comments Tuesday, June 13, 2006 More concerts in Bangalore Details of some more concerts scheduled to happen in Bangalore. The venue for all these concerts is Mangala Mantapa, NMKRV Women's College, 22nd Cross, Jayanagar 3rd Block unless specified otherwise. 15th July 2006 - Sudha Raghunathan (Carnatic Vocal) 27th July 2006 - R.K.Srikantan (Thematic concert - rare kritis in rare ragas) 15th Aug 2006 - Shubha Mudgal (Hindustani Vocal) 9th Sep 2006 - T.M.Krishna (Carnatic Vocal ... one of my favorite singers) 14th Oct 2006 - Malladi Brothers & Gundecha Brothers (Jugalbandi) 1st Nov 2006 - Gurukiran & SP Balasubramaniam (Special program; venue is Palace Grounds) 15th Dec 2006 - Mandolin U Srinivas (Mandolin) with Zakhir Hussain (Tabla) 31st Dec 2006 - Music Nite (Venue is Palace Grounds) 1st Jan 2007 - M.Balamuralikrishna (Carnatic Vocal) 10th Feb 2007 - Pt. Jasraj (Hindustani Vocal) 10th Mar 2007 - R.K.Srikantan (Carnatic Vocal) All these concerts are organized by Advaita. They organized the Sanjay Subrahmanyam concert about which I wrote in my last post. The entry fee for Sanjay's concert was Rs. 45. Don't know whether these concerts will have entry fee too. posted by Ram at 12:01 AM 4 comments Monday, June 12, 2006 A memorable concert Sanjay Subramanyam sang at Mangala Mantapa, NMKRV Women’s College, Jayanagar, Bangalore on Saturday, 10th June 2006. He was accompanied by Nagai Muralidharan on the violin, Guruvayur Dorai on the mridangam and Rajasekharan on the Morsing. Sanjay always delivers but what was special about this concert was the top class artists who accompanied him and made the concert, one that would stay in listeners' minds for a long time to come. All in all, it was one of the best concerts I have heard in recent times. Guruvayur Dorai on the mridangam was just too good. Age doesn’t seem to mellow him down at all. At 71, he is still one of the best mridangam artists around. One could see how one could play soothingly for songs, yet show one’s intelligence through calculations in the way he accompanied Sanjay. Songs: 1. ee vasudhA – sahAnA – Adi – thyAgarAja 2. aparAma – pantuvarAli – rUpakam – thyAgarAja 3. ninna nambidE – mukhAri – Adi – purandaradAsa 4. amma rAvamma – kalyAni – kanda chApu – thyAgarAja 5. ennaDu jUtunO – kalAvati – Adi – thyAgarAja 6. srinivAsa tava charanam – kharaharapriya – tisra Ekam – pApanAsam sivan 7. ennEramum – dEvagAndhAri – Adi – gOpAlakrishna bhArati 8. nijagAdasA – sindhu bhairavi – Adi – jayadEva 9. vizhikku (viruttam) - kApi followed by sOdanai – kApi – Adi – pApanAsam sivan 10. rAdhA samethA – misra yaman – Adi – UthukAdu venkata subbaiyar (?) 11. thillAnA – kAnadA – misra chApu – tAnjore quartette 12. pavamAna (mangalam) – sourAshtram – Adi – thyAgarAja posted by Ram at 8:57 AM 0 comments Friday, June 09, 2006 Upcoming concerts in Bangalore Details of some upcoming concerts in Bangalore: Organizer: Suswaralaya College of Music, Kalashrithakalpaka & Ananya Cultural Academy (#12, 28th Cross, Geetha Colony, 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560011; Ph: 26545655, 26633623 Mobile: 94480-59595 Email: suswaralaya@yahoo.com) Venue: Ananya Sabhangana,92/2 ,4th Main, Malleswaram, Bangalore-560003 11th June 2006 (Sunday), 10AM Vocal: K.N.Roopa Violin: Mathur Srinidhi Mridangam: Renuka Prasad Ghatam: S N Narayanamurthy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizer: BTM Cultural Academy (Ph: 57616693, 41212522, 26680836) Venue: Sri Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, 3rd Cross, 3rd Phase, J.P.Nagar, Bangalore 24th June 2006 (Saturday), 5:30PM Vocal: Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt. R. Vedavalli Violin: H.K.Venkataram Mridangam: Arjun Kumar Ghatam: Sukanya Ramagopal (Should to be a treat to the ears …. One of the greatest living vocalists of the older generation) 22nd July 2006 (Saturday) Venu, Veena, Violin Ensemble directed by H.S.Sudheendra, Principal, Suswaralaya College of Music 19th August 2006 (Saturday) – Special concert Vocal: Ganesh (of the Ganesh-Kumaresh fame) Violin: Kumaresh Mridangam: V.Praveen Khanjira: N. Amrith 23rd September 2006 (Saturday) Hindustani vocal concert by Pt. Keerti Kumar Badsheshi & party 21st October 2006 (Saturday) Vocal: S.S.Vignaraja Violin: B.Lakshmi Mridangam: N.Vasudev posted by Ram at 8:46 AM 0 comments Wednesday, June 07, 2006 M.S. Sheela @ HN Kalakshetra, Bangalore M.S.Sheela gave a carnatic vocal concert at Dr. HN Kalakshetra, National College, 7th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore yesterday. In contrast to her previous concert on Sunday at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja, the auditorium here was sparsely populated, may be because it was a working day and/or because not many people might have known about the concert. Highlight of the concert was the brilliant violin accompaniment by Charulata Ramanujam. 'Song list' is as follows: Vocal: M.S.Sheela Violin: Charulata Ramanujam Mridangam: H.S.Sudheendra Ghatam: Sukanya Ramagopal Songs: 1. chalamEla (varnam) – darbAr – Adi – tiruvOtriyUr tyAgaiyyar 2. vallabha nAyakasya – bEgadA – rUpakam – muthuswAmi dIkshitar 3. nIkeppudu – AbhOgi – Adi - mysore sadAsiva rAo 4. intakantE – kannada – Adi – pattanam subramaniya iyer 5. a) endigAga (viruttam) – pUrvikalyAni b) EnavEdalO – pUrvikalyAni – kanda chApu – purandaradAsa 6. evarani – dEvAmrutavarshini – Adi – thyAgarAja 7. srI raghuvara – kAmbOji – Adi – thyAgarAja 8. srihari kAyO – bAgeswari – Adi – purandaradAsa (?) 9. thA tha thadimi – brindAvani – Adi – purandaradAsa 10. harE venkata – sindhubhairavi – Adi – rAma vittala (?) 11. bavamAna (mangalam) – sowrAshtram – Adi - thyAgarAja Check out the link http://www.indianarc.com/index.html for a bizarre sport. This link was sent to me yesterday by my friend S. posted by Ram at 8:32 AM 1 comments Tuesday, June 06, 2006 M.S.Sheela @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja M.S.Sheela sang to an almost packed auditorium at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja, K.R.Road, Bangalore on Sunday, 4th June 2006. The main highlights of her performance were the detailed kalyani and kiravani raga alapanas. Here is the song list: Artists: Vocal: M.S. Sheela Violin: C.N.Chandrasekhar Mridangam: H.S.Sudheendra Ghatam: Sukanya Ramagopal Morsing: S.V.Balakrishna Songs: 1) varnam (ninnukOri) – vasantA – Adi – tAchur singArachAri 2) garuda gamana – nAgaswarAvali – rUpakam – pattanam subramaniya iyer 3) patti viduvarAdu – manjari – Adi – thyAgarAja 4) gOvardana girIsham – hindOlam – rUpakam – muthuswAmi dIkshitar 5) himAdri suthe – kalyAni – Adi (tisra As) – thyAgarAja 6) Ishwari rAjeswarI – Abheri – Adi – harikesanallUr muthiAh bhAgavathar 7) paramapurusham – lalitha panchamam – kanda chApu – swAti tirunAl 8) chEtasrI – dvijAvanti – rUpakam – muthuswAmi dIkshitar 9) kalikiyundE – kIravAni – Adi – thyAgarAja 10) hare vEnkata – sindubhairavI – Adi – purandaradAsa (?) 11) bavamAna (mangalam) – sourAshtram – Adi – thyAgarAja (could have missed 1 or 2 songs in the above listing) M.S.Sheela is also scheduled to perform today at H.N.Kalakshetra, Jayanagar, Bangalore at 6:30PM. posted by Ram at 8:17 AM 5 comments Monday, June 05, 2006 Sanjay @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja Percussive Arts Centre celebrated "Talavadhyotsav", its music concert fest last week at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja auditorium in K.R. Road, Bangalore. I came to know about the fest only on Friday and hence managed to attend Sanjay Subramanyam's vocal concert that day. Sanjay, as usual, performed really well. The kamboji raga alapana was a treat to the ears. Need to mention about the mridangam artist Anoor Ananthakrishna Sarma. I had first heard him about 2-3 years back in an Akashwani Sangeet Sammelan concert in Delhi and was quite impressed by his control over the calculations and over the instrument as such. I could witness the same control and brilliance on seeing him play for Sanjay too. His misra nadai in the taniavartanam was just too good. Though I am no authority to comment on any artist, the one area where I feel he can still improve is playing accompaniment for songs. The more he plays for songs, the more he will be able to play along with the song without giving the audience a feeling of the main artist's singing and his mridangam accompaniment running as two separate tracks. Here is the song list of the concert: Vocal: Sanjay Subramanyam Violin: H.K.Venkataram Mridangam: Anoor Ananthakrishna Sarma Khanjira: Guru Prasanna Ghatam: ? Songs: 1) varnam (manamOhana) – mOhanam – kanda ata – harikesanallUr muthiAh bhAgavatar 2) jaya jaya – nAttai – kanda chApu – purandaradAsa 3) srI lakshmI – AbhOgi – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar 4) rAma ninnuvinA – sankarAbharanam – rUpaka – thyAgarAja 5) Eti janma – varAli – misra chApu – thyAgarAja 6) evari mAta – kAmbOji – Adi – thyAgarAja 7) mallAri – gambhIranAttai – kanda triputa - ? 8) jayadEva ashtapadi – sindubhairavi – Adi – jayadEva 9) karpagAmbigai – behAg - ? 10) a) petra thAi – viruttam – surutti b) Adiya pAdathai – surutti – Adi – gOpAlakrishna bhArati 11) bhArata sAmrAjya – dEsh – Adi – mAyuram viswanAtha sAstri 12) bavamAna (mangalam) – sourAshtram – Adi – thyAgarAja posted by Ram at 8:11 AM 5 comments Friday, June 02, 2006 Fa-Naa .... naa .... naaa The perfect example of how a movie could be spoilt despite having a good star cast is Fanaa. Saw the movie at PVR, Bangalore two days back. Though Aamir Khan and Kajol try their best to infuse life into a otherwise dead movie, their efforts bear no fruit. As my friend Ramki put it, "we are still searching for the story". If you have not yet watched Fanaa and end up sitting in a movie hall that is screening it, things that you can still watch out for are Aamir and Kajol's acting, some really good photography and of course, Sanaya Irani, who plays Bobo, one of the girls in Kajol's troupe. You end up wondering what is Sanaya doing there ... she should probably have been given a role of higher importance in the movie. Bharani had written in his blog - "Worth watching half-the-movie…Which half depends on your preference!". Sanaya certainly makes the first half worth watching :-) Having said all that, I would say you should go ahead and watch Fanaa if you are an Aamir Khan fan like me. posted by Ram at 8:59 AM 9 comments	About Me Name: Ram View My Profile *Orkut me !!* Previous Posts Please access http://ramsabode.wordpress.com Migrating to wordpress Bangalore Gayana Samaja concerts Sikkil Gurucharan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja Kyun kiya tumne aisa .. kyun Concerts this weekend in Bangalore I, the tagged one A trip to Srirangapatnam/Mysore - Part 3 A trip to Srirangapatnam/Mysore - Part 2 A trip to Srirangapatnam/Mysore - Part 1 Archives April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 Carnatic music: General links I visit: Sangeetham Kutcheribuzz Carnatica Swathi Thirunal
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