So much has happened since the last time I blogged - things that were probably life-changing in one way or the other - that I could probably write a small book out of them. But life is great as usual and I'm loving the challenges it throws at me! :)
Besides my own show Pudhuppunal on Doordarshan Podhigai which has now completed almost 50 episodes (and is going strong), I'm now hosting a weekly half-an-hour long Carnatic music appreciation show 'Maithreem Bhajatha' on Sankara TV, which is aired every Saturday at 9 pm. There is a repeat telecast on Sundays at 5 pm.
I'm also currently freelancing for Sruti, India's premier magazine for the performing arts. I'm doing a series of interviews with accompanists. The first interview was with Kanjira vidwan B.S.Purushotham, which I think will be published in the December issue. I have been a big fan of Sruti, its quality and content, and consider writing for the magazine an honour :)
I'll write a detailed post soon about how TV can change someone's life, just as it has mine. Meanwhile here are a few links that you might want to see.
Videos of some episodes of my Podhigai show Pudhuppunal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CooU1iOr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uu458zW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvfpMp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlp62tHT
I recently shot for the first-ever music magazine on DVD, Raagamalika. Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u7_L28s
Like last year, I will be hosting this year's Sangeetha Sandippu - Coffee Chat with a Carnatic Celebrity, scheduled from the 20th to 30th of this month, at Sangeetha Okadey's Hall, between 4 pm and 5 pm everyday. Here's the schedule:
20th - Sunday - T.M.Krishna, Sangeetha Sivakumar & R.K.Shriramkumar
21st - Monday - Ranjani & Gayathri
22nd - Tuesday - Ghatam Karthik & B.S.Purushotham
23rd - Wednesday - Shashank & Chitravina Ravikiran
24th - Thursday - Sangita Kalanidhi Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman
25th - Friday - S.Sowmya
26th - Saturday - Unnikrishnan & O.S.Arun
27th - Sunday - Aruna Sairam
28th - Monday - Ganesh & Kumaresh
29th - Tuesday - Priya Sisters
30th - Wednesday - The Sikkil Family
Note:
1. Sangeetha will provide free snacks and coffee to rasikas on all days.
2. Free passes for each day's chat can be collected that morning from the venue.
3. Passes will be available on a first-come-first-served basis for about 70 rasikas every day.
It was a wonderful experience hosting the event last year and I'm looking forward to it this year!
Also, the second edition of Shashi sir's first book Carnatic Funtasktic will be released soon. We've been overwhelmed by the response the first edition of the book has received. I'm sure the second edition will be just as useful to all music students.
Another revolutionary book is in the offing. I'll write about that too as soon as we finish it :)
I wrote an email to someone today about Shashi sir and these two sentences came from the bottom of my heart:
"His innovative teaching methods, immeasurable gyanam, unparalleled dedication and his love and affection have moulded me, as it has several other students. I, for one, adore and worship him; it is to him that I owe my music and my career."
Over the past few months, I've done a lot of things, some of which I don't even remember anymore! But it's been a lot of fun; my thirst for creativity and achievement, and my obsession with Carnatic music have been the primary motivators!
There's so much to do, so much to achieve, so much to learn and enjoy. I hope I will be able to find the time for everything. Oh, and did I mention, I love life! :)
Besides my own show Pudhuppunal on Doordarshan Podhigai which has now completed almost 50 episodes (and is going strong), I'm now hosting a weekly half-an-hour long Carnatic music appreciation show 'Maithreem Bhajatha' on Sankara TV, which is aired every Saturday at 9 pm. There is a repeat telecast on Sundays at 5 pm.
I'm also currently freelancing for Sruti, India's premier magazine for the performing arts. I'm doing a series of interviews with accompanists. The first interview was with Kanjira vidwan B.S.Purushotham, which I think will be published in the December issue. I have been a big fan of Sruti, its quality and content, and consider writing for the magazine an honour :)
I'll write a detailed post soon about how TV can change someone's life, just as it has mine. Meanwhile here are a few links that you might want to see.
Videos of some episodes of my Podhigai show Pudhuppunal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CooU1iOr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uu458zW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvfpMp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlp62tHT
I recently shot for the first-ever music magazine on DVD, Raagamalika. Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u7_L28s
Like last year, I will be hosting this year's Sangeetha Sandippu - Coffee Chat with a Carnatic Celebrity, scheduled from the 20th to 30th of this month, at Sangeetha Okadey's Hall, between 4 pm and 5 pm everyday. Here's the schedule:
20th - Sunday - T.M.Krishna, Sangeetha Sivakumar & R.K.Shriramkumar
21st - Monday - Ranjani & Gayathri
22nd - Tuesday - Ghatam Karthik & B.S.Purushotham
23rd - Wednesday - Shashank & Chitravina Ravikiran
24th - Thursday - Sangita Kalanidhi Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman
25th - Friday - S.Sowmya
26th - Saturday - Unnikrishnan & O.S.Arun
27th - Sunday - Aruna Sairam
28th - Monday - Ganesh & Kumaresh
29th - Tuesday - Priya Sisters
30th - Wednesday - The Sikkil Family
Note:
1. Sangeetha will provide free snacks and coffee to rasikas on all days.
2. Free passes for each day's chat can be collected that morning from the venue.
3. Passes will be available on a first-come-first-served basis for about 70 rasikas every day.
It was a wonderful experience hosting the event last year and I'm looking forward to it this year!
Also, the second edition of Shashi sir's first book Carnatic Funtasktic will be released soon. We've been overwhelmed by the response the first edition of the book has received. I'm sure the second edition will be just as useful to all music students.
Another revolutionary book is in the offing. I'll write about that too as soon as we finish it :)
I wrote an email to someone today about Shashi sir and these two sentences came from the bottom of my heart:
"His innovative teaching methods, immeasurable gyanam, unparalleled dedication and his love and affection have moulded me, as it has several other students. I, for one, adore and worship him; it is to him that I owe my music and my career."
Over the past few months, I've done a lot of things, some of which I don't even remember anymore! But it's been a lot of fun; my thirst for creativity and achievement, and my obsession with Carnatic music have been the primary motivators!
There's so much to do, so much to achieve, so much to learn and enjoy. I hope I will be able to find the time for everything. Oh, and did I mention, I love life! :)
Dear life,
It has been a pretty crazy couple of months, had to stay away from most of the things that I would normally breeze through, including but not limited to a few aspects of my real life day job, Debian work, movies, the routine yearly Oct-Nov time vacation that I take etc. Obviously, hobbies took a big hit. Also had to let go of an opportunity to travel to one of my favorite places, IIT Guwahati; something that I don't usually pass up. Sigh! But such is life.
Been bouncing back slowly:
I finally moved a few domains that I run (including my personal domain) and their email to a linode and I am quite liking it so far (I would've been great if I had some more disk space at my disposal but 16GB isn't all that bad).
On the Debian front, finished attending to package sponsorship requests, I've been updating packages (there is one elinks RC bug that I'll fix next) and work is finally under progress for the clang ITP in the Debian GIT repository.
There are a ton of pictures in RAW format that I haven't yet had the time to convert to JPEG (I use UFRaw but the output that I got from Bibble Pro is fairly impressive -- perhaps I should consider getting myself a license) but that could wait.
Found a decent place to rent (I should be moving in about a month or so). I would've liked a place that isn't an apartment or at least in a smaller community, preferably something in-town but good places are difficult to come by.
I am back,
Giridhar
It has been a pretty crazy couple of months, had to stay away from most of the things that I would normally breeze through, including but not limited to a few aspects of my real life day job, Debian work, movies, the routine yearly Oct-Nov time vacation that I take etc. Obviously, hobbies took a big hit. Also had to let go of an opportunity to travel to one of my favorite places, IIT Guwahati; something that I don't usually pass up. Sigh! But such is life.
Been bouncing back slowly:
I finally moved a few domains that I run (including my personal domain) and their email to a linode and I am quite liking it so far (I would've been great if I had some more disk space at my disposal but 16GB isn't all that bad).
On the Debian front, finished attending to package sponsorship requests, I've been updating packages (there is one elinks RC bug that I'll fix next) and work is finally under progress for the clang ITP in the Debian GIT repository.
There are a ton of pictures in RAW format that I haven't yet had the time to convert to JPEG (I use UFRaw but the output that I got from Bibble Pro is fairly impressive -- perhaps I should consider getting myself a license) but that could wait.
Found a decent place to rent (I should be moving in about a month or so). I would've liked a place that isn't an apartment or at least in a smaller community, preferably something in-town but good places are difficult to come by.
I am back,
Giridhar
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