Global Rasikas Meet @mudhra on Dec 19th ,2010, part 3 of 3
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7. Each Rasika of Rasikas spoke:
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The best of best happened in the last few hours where every rasika true to our spirit had a mike where he introduced himself and talked for few minutes .Those who spoke at the beginning had more time and those at the end had a tukkada time . Here is a brief for almost each of them in geographical order
From Canada and USA
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1. Vasanthakokilam
Spring cuckoo as arasi calls him spoke from the standpoint of how he is only the janitor of the forum and almost all of the decisions is decided by Ramakrishnan. He spoke that in general they take a fairly liberal approach.l VK is gifted speaker just like how he writes , a person who has to sit as an ambassador in US.He spoke wherein he said the site could be more artist friendly.
2. mahavishnnu - Ramesh Balasubramaniam
Mahavishnu spoke well , touched upon how at times some of them dont understand few things and just impulsively write . He gave an example of rhythm .
3. CACM or VKV Sir:
VKV Sir has a chembai vaidhyanAtha bhAgavathar sAreeram , he was the MC and he really did a great job . He spoke many things as he was MC but certainly in his own way very expressive personality
4. Music is life:
Music is life is from Detroit area and I forgot what he spoke.
5. Arasi:
Arasi spoke in the beginning and left bit early, wishing the new groom and bride.
From Bangalore :
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The bangalore crowd was big . Some of them just came for just this
6. Cienu:
Spoke his addiction to forum and also touched upon anonymity.
7. RadhikA:
Radhika spoke before itself on the content of rasikas in general.
8. Semmu 86:
Semmu 86 was courteous to talk about the young srinidhi and talked about her mohanam mishra chApu and varnam
9. VS ManjunAth
VS ManjunAth spoke about few interesting collection of each artist like DKJ, KVN etc
From Chennai:
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From Chennai we had lot of speakers
10. NickH
Nick was fabulous speaker I guess mother tongue really matters to present with eloquence. He talked so well and had a great sense of humour.
11. Cool or mankuthimmA:
Cool spoke beautifully and talked in general about rasikas.org having a clearer vision . He also talked about his dearest of dear topics recording for prosterity. He also said there are many who want to take but not give back
12. RajuMds
Raju MDS highlighted there should be more focus on topics
13. Shivadasan
The senior most citizen from tiruvannamalai had the grace and blessing of ramana maharishi . He talked about in general spirituality must be experienced
14. Vishnuramprasad
VRP talked about that we have to bring in clippings of many performing youngsters and put a small cd.
15. Subramanian
This gentleman talked bit long and he was talking about posterity of recordings . Subramanian writes minimally and he was the first person to host our concert series few years back (TVRamprasadh concert in his house)
Time was running out bit too fast there and very briefly rest of us spoke
16. Uday_shankar
Uday Shankar introduced his name and spoke very minimally
17. RajeshNat
I talked very fast , I had written few points but I was pushed almost like a semmangudi dhanasri thillAnA and I spoke atleast one point where I did not repeat anything that was spoken before . I said musicians have to reach rasikas and they should come openly and post ,also I said that folks like me have a very minor effect but of late I am very happy to see in the last year and half even sabha patrons like mudhra and radha Bhaskar , PratyAksham bala and KSSR are all participating and I asked them to meet reqularly and not even call rasikas like me after reading every post and create more meritocracy. Incidentally when I spoke I did not know PB , and PB raised his hand .
18. TKB:
He talked about how rasikas can reciprocate with objective discussion when presenting a point . He took an example of how when there was a challenge about todi being played in keyboard and presented fair points
19. Ajit :
Ajit writes the same id and is the disciple of Flute Ramani. He spoke briefly his dharmasangadam to write as he is a disciple of ramani sir
Ajit is from pittsburgh, not chennai
20.Crama
Crama alias cramachandran also spoke quite well, forgot what he told.
21. PRatyAksham bAla
PratyAksham balA said at any point rasikas need not quit the forum and if few posts are not favourable and bit rough he will treat that poster just like his grandchild
22. PonBhairavi
A fabulous man the founder president of pondycheri bhairavi and hence the handle ponbhairavi . His name is rajagopAlan.
23. ANandasangeetham
A new entrant spoke forgot what he spoke
24. Ksivakumar
Forgot whether it was his id or his name . he briefly spoke
25.MuniRao:
He spoke briefly .
26. Mudhra bhaskar
After I spoke Mudhra bhaskar spoke beautifully and lamented in general about patronage . He being the organizer says rasikas have to flock sabhas then hearing in CD's and talked about poor attendance in concerts .
27. sivaramakrishnan spoke briefly cant remember what he spoke
28. vganesh spoke briefly , i forgot what he spoke
29. The last id to speak was bit of a chuckle
.He was preposterous, he was perhaps the sweetest speaker he only said his id and name
Note:
In short each of them spoke something that is most dear to them .I may have forgotten quite a few of them I am sorry , you all could add more
Conclusively:
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1. Collectively 25 to 30 of us lost our visual anonymity , that too at the end we were all videographed .
2. But there is just a great camraderie that has built all for the love of music . How else you can explain folks like cienu or vSmanjunath coming from bangalore , elderly patrons like ponbhairavi/PB and shivadasan coming from pondy and tiruvannAmalai. Not to speak of few northamerican visitors
3. The meet was definitely global. If I could thank one person who championed all this it was indeed nAgeshwaran sir
with some lovely support from VKV .
4. Artists and Rasikas --> key takeaway build more rapport from this core base of rasikas, not just those who participated but also those who are as far as cmlover, punarvasu , mohan etc . Collectively there is a close to zero hypocrisy and prejudice , opinions are getting expressed with only the love of the divine carnatic music.
