GLOBAL RASIKAS MEET 2010 FUNCTION UPLOADS.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 27 Dec 2010, 03:07

Dear Rasikas,

I am very happy to commence the uploads of our various events of the global Rasikas meet.
The download links for the Invocation song and the short duration concert of Sow Srinidhi is given below.

GLOBAL RASIKAS MEET 2010. SRINIDHI CONCERT ON 19.12.2010.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dq1fb36o4 ... .12.10.mp3

1. http://www.mediafire.com/file/chkwfqtk0 ... inidhi.mp3

2. http://www.mediafire.com/file/0a8bar8ex ... 2.2010.mp3

3. http://www.mediafire.com/file/kr4si5f41 ... INIDHI.mp3

4. http://www.mediafire.com/file/3fee66sam ... INIDHI.mp3

5. http://www.mediafire.com/file/q6jsf1tql ... INIDHI.mp3

S.NAGESWARAN.
27.12.2010.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 27 Dec 2010, 05:35

Many thanks for your efforts. We wish the best for Sow Srinidhi in CM mastery under the expert tutelage of Sarmaji..
Look forward to the rest in due course..

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 27 Dec 2010, 09:42

LIST OF ATTENDEES FOR THE GLOBAL RASIKAS MEET 2010 ON 19.12.2010.

SL NO USER NAME REAL NAME REMARKS
1 CACM V.K.VISWANATHAN
2 S.NAGESWARAN S.NAGESWARAN
1 MEERA
2 CIENU SRINIVASAN GRAND SON OF M.S.SUBBALAKSHMI AND SON OF RADHA VISWANATHAN
3 MUNIRAO MADHAVA MUNIRAO SON OF SANDHYAVANDANAM SRINIVASA RAO
4 EESHA S.SRIDHARAN SANGITHAPRIYA
5 AJIT AJIT RANGANATHAN
6 RADHIKA RAJNARAYAN RADHIKA RAJNARAYAN RADEL SERVICES
7 ARISI MRS. RAJI KRISHNAN
8 VG V.GOVINDAN
9 SIVARAMAKRISHNAN S.SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
10 MSAKELLA AKELLA MALLIKARJUNA SHARMA
11 RADHA BHASKAR DR.RADHA BHASKAR MUDHARA ORGANISATION
12 RAJANI SMT. RAJANI ARJUN SHANKAR
13 S.VENUGOPALAN
14 MAHAVISHNU RAMESH BALASUBRAMANIAN
15 MUSIC IS LIFE SANKER KRISHNAN
16 PREPOSTEROUS T.S.JAYSRAMAN
17 BALUMMI N.BALASUBRAMANIAN
18 S.SANKARANARAYANAN S.SANKARANARAYANAN
19 NICK.H NICK HAYNES
20 C,RAMA C.RAMAKRISHNAN
21 UDAY SHANKAR
22 KSIVA K.SIVAKUMAR
23 TKB T.KRISHNABABU FATHER OF SATHYANARAYANA, KEYBOARD ARTIST
24 VSARMAIITM V.SUBRAMANYA SEEMA
25 RAJESHNAT RAJESH NATARAJAN
26 GS G.SUBRAMANIAN
27 VASANTHAKOKILAM B.CHANDRAMOULI MODARATOR, RASIKAS.ORG
28 V.S.MANJUNATH V.S.MANJUNATH
29 V.S.VISWANATH
30 V.VISHNUPRASAD V.VISHNUPRASAD
31 ANANDASANGEETHAM K.SUBRAMANIAN
32 VGANESH V.GANESH
33 MANKUTHIMMA S.M.KULKARNI
34 SHIVADASAN SHIVADASAN

GUEST MUSICIANS
1 NARASIMHAN NARASIMHAN FATHER OF CHITHRA VEENA RAVIKIRAN
2 MYSORE NAGARAJ MYSORE NAGARAJ VIOLINIST
3 MYSOREMANJUNATH MYSORE MANJUNATH VIOLINIST
4 DR.NARMADA DR.NARMADA VIOLINIST
5 MUDHRA BHASKAR MUDHRA BHASKAR MUDHARA ORGANISATION

OTHER NON MEMBERS OF RASIKAS.ORG
1 S.SRIRAM S.SRIRAM FATHER OF S.SRINIDHI
2 ANURADHA SRIRAM ANURADHA SRIRAM MOTHER OF S.SRINIDHI
3 SAVITHRI NAGESWARAN SAVITHRI NAGESWARAN WIFE OF S.NAGESWARAN
4 R.MURALI R.MURALI VIOLINIST
5 SANTHANAGOPALAN SANTHANAGOPALAN MRUDANGIST
6 SUNDARARAMAN SUNDARARAMAN
7 ADITHYA ADITHYA
8 PICHAMMAL PICHAMMAL
9 AV RAJASIMHAN A.V.RAJASIMHAN DICIPLE OF AKELLA
10 REVATHY SANTHANAKRISHNAN REVATHY SANTHANAKRISHNAN DICIPLE OF AKELLA
11 N.NARASIMHAN N.NARASIMHAN
12 N.SESHADRI NARAYANAN SESHADRI SECRETARY, CHROMEPET CULTURAL ACADEMY
13 MRS.GEETHA KALYANARAMAN MRS.GEETHA KALYANARAMAN SRINIDHI'S MUSIC TEACHER
14 B.KALYANARAMAN B.KALYANARAMAN HUSBAND OF GEETHA KALYANARAMAN
15 HALL ATTENDER FOR MIKE SET UP AND OTHER ASSISTANCES

NOTE; THRER MAY BE SOME RASIKAS WHO MAY NOT
HAVE ENTERED THEIR NAME IN THE REGISTER.

S.NAGESWARAN.
27.12.2010.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 27 Dec 2010, 19:30

GLOBAL RASIKAS MEET 2010 ANTICIPATED EXPENDITURE AND VOLENTARY DONATIONS RECEIVED.AS ON 27.12.2010.

The Anticipated expenditures for the Global Rasikas Meet 2010. AMOUNT

1. Lunch for 100 persons; At Rs.150/= per person. 15, 000/=
2. Biscuits, Coffee and Tea; At Rs.20/=per person 2,000/=
3. Video coverage; with 2 videographers. 5000/=
4. Photo coverage; For photo prints 1000/=
5. Hiring of car; 1000/=
6. Presenting Shawls for VIPs and Musicians; 2000/=
7. Wages for Laborersâ€™; 10 Laborers 4000/=
8. Stationary items; 500/=
9. Misc expenses; 2000/=
10. Presents to performers and their transportation Charges 3500/=
11.Stage Decoration & banner 1200/=
TOTAL 37,200/=
Actual may very [Either + or -]

Contributions from Rasikas AMOUNT / Rs. CUMULATIVE AMOUNT

SL.NO DATE NAME OF THE RASIKA

1 15.12.2010 V.GOVINDAN 1000 1000
2 15.12.2010 S.NAGESWARAN 2000 3000
3 17.12.2010 Rajani 500 3500
4 19.12.2010 PREPOSTEROUS 1000 4500
5 19.12.2010 T.KRISHNAN[tkb] 500 5000
7 19.12.2010 Sankar [Music is Li 1001 6001
8 19.12.2010 V.S.MANJUNATH 500 6501
9 19.12.2010 V.S.VISWANATH 200 6701
10 19.12.2010 ARASI 2000 8701
11 19.12.2010 C.RAMA 200 8901
12 19.12.2010 S.SIVARAMAKRISHNAN 200 9101
13 19.12.2010 RADHIKA RAJNARAYAN 1000 10,101
14 19.12.2010 SIVAKUMAR [SIVA] 200 10,301
15 19.12.2010 V.GANESH 200 10,501
16 19.12.2010 RAJESH 2500 13,001
17 19.12.2010 NICK 500 13,501
18 19.12.2010 VISHNUPRASAD 3000 16,501
18 21.12.2010 VENKATA KAILASAM 500 17,001
19 22.12.2010 AJIT RANGANATHAN 1000 18,001
20. 22.12.2010 SRIRAM [SN SON IN LAW] 4000 22, 001

AS ON 22.12.2010

cm lover had contributed Rs.5000/= Amount yet to be received.
Sri KSS Raghavan is sending the contribution. Likely to be received by 29/30.12.2010

Volentary donors may check up the list. If there are any ommissions, the may indicate their name, Amount given and to whom the amount was given.

Volentary donations from Rasikas is welcome to cover the balance amount required [Aproximately Rs.10,000/=].

S.NAGESWARAN.
27.12.2010.

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 27 Dec 2010, 19:50

Dear Sri Nageswaran,

I am sending you a cheque for Rs.1000/-
to this address: Old No.21, New No.12, Srinivasa Pillai Street, West Mambalam, Chennai 600 033.

Regards,
Pratyaksham Bala.

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 27 Dec 2010, 20:14

Thanks for the upload of Srinidhi's music. I am listening to and enjoying Mohana raga item now!

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 28 Dec 2010, 00:07

Respected Prathyaksham bala,

Thank you for your contribution.

I will confirm the receipt of the money.

S.NAGESWARAN.
27.12.2010.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 29 Dec 2010, 15:18

Dear Sri Nageswaran,

I will contribute the balance outstanding as on date (could you email me the outstanding amount and your account details)?

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 29 Dec 2010, 18:06

Respected Admin Sri Ramakrishnan,

Thank you for your generous gesture.

I will communicate to you in 3 or 4 days after seeing the balance sheet
and the receipts and receivng
the donations already committed by our Rasikas.

I am happy that Vasanthakokilam was with us during our
historic meeting.

S.NAGESWARAN.
29.12.2010.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 29 Dec 2010, 18:21

skris, that is really nice of you.

I noticed, over somebody's shoulder, that there was a global rasikas meet article in Samudhra. I will make the effort to buy the magazine, but I wonder if Dr Radha Bhaskar might be willing to copy the article here?

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Dec 2010, 21:07

PB/Punarvasu/arasi/....
Remember: karNan movie.
(in hamsanandi)

enna koDuppAn evai koDuppAn enRivar kURu munnE
ponnuum koDuppAn, poruLum koDuppAn
pOthAthu pOthAthu enRAl
innam koDuppAn ivayum pOthAthenRal
thannai koDuppAn
than uyirum kODuppAn
thayA nidhiyE....
(a la our webmaster!)

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 29 Dec 2010, 23:15

cml,

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 29 Dec 2010, 23:39

Dear Nick,

Mrs. Radha Bhaskar had sent a copy of the latest â€œSamudhraâ€ magazine to me.

A very good report about our meet and a few photos were published in the magazine.

A good friend of mine working in the Hindu news paper had promised to publish a news report in the paper as a â€œcurtain raiserâ€ heading and was to be published in the paper on 18.12.2010 [Friday music supplement].

Cm lover was kind enough to give a brief about our web site from the origin, subjects covered, etc. However no report came in the news paper. When I contacted them, they have promised to send a reporter to cover our event. The reporter also didnâ€™t turn up on 19.12.2010.

Under the circumstances, Mrs. Radha Bhaskar had published the report about our meet in their magazine.

Mrs.Radha Bhaskar was taking an active part in our efforts for the successful conduct of our meet right from the beginning by arranging the hall in the school premises, preparing the banner of our web site [request by the u/s] and decorations done around our banner.

My whole heated thanks to Madam for the same.

Since MRS. Radha Bhaskar is busy in conducting the music festival in their organization, I was not able to speak to her today.
I wanted to request her to publish the report about our meet in our web site
[I donâ€™t know as to how to copy the report about our meet from the copy of the magazine available with me and post it in the thread].

Also the photos of our meet are available in the CD. I donâ€™t know as to how to post the photos Via Picasso web. I have made a request to Sri Rajesh who promised to help me in 2 or 3 days.

Video coverage of our entire event is also available with me.

Since Sri AM Sharmaji is staying with me I am not able to do much of my work in computer as of now.

I wish that I will be able to post the photos, Video etc one by one starting from First of January 2011 as a New Year gift to the Rasikas all over the world.

S.NAGESWARAN.
29.12.2010.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 30 Dec 2010, 00:05

Thank you.

Waiting with patience for all those things, as and when you, Smt Radha Bhaskar, etc are able to get them done.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 30 Dec 2010, 01:17

Many thanks to Radha Bhaskar on our behalf for all the help and assiance to Mr Nageswaran. We all would love to read your report whenever you can u/l to our site...

vasant · Post by **vasant** » 30 Dec 2010, 02:37

Kudos to Sow.Srinidhi

and absolute Hats off to Guruji Sri Akella Sarma Sir!!
I hope and pray for his good health.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 30 Dec 2010, 14:27

The writeup in samudhra is in their Dec 2010 magazine(priced 10 Rs each).The cover page of the magazine is that of harikatha exponent "kamala murthy". The writeup is two pages , you will see individual photos of many like a cut out of a political party

with the article right in between . Tx to mudra and radha bhaskar.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Dec 2010, 20:28

Dear rasikas,

The download links for the Global Rasikas meet 2010 report in the â€œSamudhraâ€Magazine" December 2010 issue is given below.

1. http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/dca ... ae546g.jpg

2. http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/f5e ... de2e6g.jpg

S.NAGESWARAN.
30.12.2010.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Dec 2010, 20:39

Respected cm lover,

I have received your blessings, New Year greetings, and your donation Cheque
for an amount of Rs.5000/= for our Global Rasikas Meet 2010 expenses.

Thank you for your blessings, New Year greetings and the donation.

S.NAGESWARAN.
30.12.2010.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 30 Dec 2010, 21:41

Thank you for putting the article online.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 30 Dec 2010, 22:27

Many many thanks for posting the Samudra article. It is nice to see srinidhi in concert as well as the faces of many members of our Rasika Family. Can't put names to all of them; hope Rajesh will assist!
The write-up is brief but objective.
Credit goes to you Nageswaran for giving birth to this concept of global meet and the safe delivery. Now it is up to all of us to nurture this child and let it grow into maturity.

By the by I loved Srinidhi's powerful rendering of Janasammodini - a favourite of Santanam (now of Unnikrishan too) - not often heard in concerts. Her childlike voice literally soars very melodiously and I am afraid she may be grabbed by any of the movie directors once they get to hear this

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 30 Dec 2010, 22:55

Thanks Sri. Nageswaran. It is great to see the coverage in the Samudra magazine. Regarding the expenses, I meant to talk to you about this during the meet but in all that flurry of activity it got overlooked. We will communicate by email and coordinate with srkris on bridging any remaining balance.

It was a great meet and it was so wonderful to see so many of you in person. And it was great to listen to Srinidhi and her masterful handling of matters related to laya. Full credit to the student and her guru Sri. Akellaji. She has a bright future ahead. Sri. VKV was at his humorous best in handling the duties of the MC quite cheerfully.

Thanks very much to everyone for their contributions, monetary and other wise. It was indeed a lot of effort, physical, mental and monetary, to pull such a meet together...and many rasikas traveled long distances for this purpose. When everyone talked, many positives about our forum were expressed ( "addictive" was frequently heard, and the sheer and natural enthusiasm about the forum when Manjunath spoke was very memorable ). And many constructive criticisms and suggestions were made, all with the best intentions for keeping the forum a vibrant social network for us to hang out and have fun, enjoy talking about music and contributing and learning a lot in the process.

I felt the strong vibe that the members are passionate about doing good things for CM. That is in the form of a growing and lasting contribution to the art. We, as a group, are in a unique position to articulate that and most importantly, doing something concrete about it. It may be just a handful of things, like 3 to 5 items of significance. This leads to another theme that was mentioned in the meet, especially by Thimma and by a few others, about the vision statement for the forum. May be the vision statement itself is a generalized statement of these significant things members want to do for CM. I know that is not how visions statements work, but in social networks like ours, it is the users who dictate the form and content, and so the flow is opposite to what happens traditionally. Again, this is just my personal take on it, not any concrete declaration..

One feedback from the meet attendees for all of us, which was emphasized by cienu, is along the lines of the carpenters' maxim "measure twice, cut once". That is, think before you write, review before you hit that submit, review again and edit if needed. Sri. Pratyaksham Bala also narrated in a side conversation about how much he thinks about implications of his writing on the quite varied backgrounds, linguistic, cultural, generational etc., of our members, especially on opinionated observations.
On the other side of the coin, as you will see and hear in the video, he made the profound observation that one way to not take offense and respond harshly at someone's writing is to consider how you will perceive and take it if similar things are uttered by one's grandson. Both of these thumb rules contribute to self-moderation. This does not mean our discussions need to be docile, non-opinionated, overly and artificially respectful and lack vibrancy.

Another common feedback was that the forum needs tighter moderation. People are quite astonished at the level of acrimony and unsavory exchanges in many threads in a forum dedicated to the noble art form that CM is. (Fortunately, that is only in a very small minority of threads). Quite a few members are not comfortable with the current "long leash" method and they would like to see a bit more authoritarianism/back-bone/putting-the-foot-down on the part of these darn "officials". As I have stated before, I am personally not in favor of content moderation. As Nick mentioned elsewhere, the current "long leash" method is by intent and not due to inability, though we do recognize content moderation requires more moderator bandwidth. We will continue to evolve this as srkris has sought your suggestions by email. To those who want tighter moderation, think hard about what you are asking since you may get it

One thing we definitely need to do a better job is in keeping the threads organized. Shivadasan was quite particular on that and I agree. This basically involves splitting threads when the discussion veers off in tangents. Members choose to read threads by the title of the thread, and Shivadasan felt that due to our natural inclination to go on a tangent on to other topics, he misses out on some great content since they are buried in threads with a different title. I would not necessarily discourage discussions going off to related topics since that is how communication/discussion happens in real life but we will try to do a better job in splitting threads if the off topic discussions merit a separate thread.

Sri. Nageswaran was too kind in honoring me with that great shawl ("ponnAdai") and I accepted it on behalf of all of you. That combined "you" is indeed the only "official" of this forum. The forum is not a creation of the admin/moderators but it is an evolving organism constantly being built and grown by the members. That is what the modern user-provided content forums are about. In that spirit, I offer that ponnAdai to all of you, metaphorically wrapping the shawl around the entire rasikas.org community. Thank You.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 30 Dec 2010, 23:10

vasanthakokilam - Thank you for that very detailed observation. Thank you also for sharing the ponnAdai with all rasikas. vaazhka rasikas.org

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 31 Dec 2010, 00:46

Dear Sri Nageswaran, I had sent you an email through the forum, since I don't have your email address. Please let me know if you have not received it yet.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 31 Dec 2010, 01:20

Thanks Sri VK for that detailed account. Quite refreshing to read what transpired, along with Samudhra's report.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 31 Dec 2010, 11:27

cmlover wrote:It is nice to see srinidhi in concert as well as the faces of many members of our Rasika Family. Can't put names to all of them; hope Rajesh will assist!
By the by I loved Srinidhi's powerful rendering of Janasammodini - a favourite of Santanam (now of Unnikrishan too)

Perhaps bit later I will copy and paste those posts in other thread that I wrote and will have it here.
For now , in the article , here are the names , CAN I Call this as "Artist Friendly Rasikas.org Team"

, there are just 11 team members of the team

From Top to bottom, in the left side:
------------------------------------------
Srinidhi photo
1. VKV (CACM) Sir
2. shri chitravinA narasimhan(wild card entry into the team )
3. VasanthakOkilam (Captain who perhaps is still planning on how to make this site as artist friendly

)
4. Cienu

From top to bottom in the right side:
-------------------------------------------
5. AkellA gAru
6. Shri Muni Rao
7. Nick
8. ShivadAsan Sir (perhaps the eldest of all there)
9. Subramanian (Nageshwaran and Cool's friend the gentleman who hosted the first concert of TV Ramprasadh)

From Left to Right:
---------------------
Few Youngsters at last ---> of illustrious gurus
10.Ajit (disciple of Flute ramani from PA,USA in a dark striped t shirt)
11. Semmu86 (Aravind), UKS Sir's student.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 31 Dec 2010, 17:53

A picture taken by rasika Sivaramakrishnan of yours truly around 8.45 am. VKV , Munirao, Sivaramakrishnan & myself were amongst the (very) early birds !

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Dec 2010, 20:31

cienu, ah.. nice picture.. I will upload the group photo that was taken with my phone camera soon.

The picture insertion in the Samudra article is done tastefully and in a non-obtrusive manner.
A few people got missed out from the Samudra picture layout... Rajesh, Nageswaran, Thimma for example!! But I am glad they did not put the names under the photos, this way it just comes off as a random sample of rasikas in attendance.

BTW, In my first press coverage, I am misquoted

No complaints though.. I was not expressing a strong desire for the site to be artist friendly but I offered that topic for discussion. But as we saw, there were other pressing topics in people's minds which occupied the rest of the 3 hours.

The topic itself turns out to be not just artist friendliness but it is the more general issue of friendliness. Given the no holes barred discussions here, the general respect that is shown to artists and other people in real life ( sometimes artificial and sycophantic ) is not reflected online. That itself may be very uncomfortable to the artists. And if the artist is a member, some reviewers may have a tendency to hold back their opinions on that artist's concerts. So it cuts both ways. There is definitely a cost. Some artists will definitely add value to the site and we lose out on that. But given that the site is predominantly rasikas oriented, we do not want to change that bias but we need to somehow instruct the artists who sign up to have a thick skin and resist the tendency to debate in the concert review threads in a knee-jerk manner and know how to take an opinion as an opinion and not as a universal statement of fact. I know it is much easier said than done. This is sort of what transpired in the hall way discussion I had with Dr. Narmada when I invited her to be more active at the site. She expressed the apprehension about the confrontational nature of some of our threads but she said she will contribute wherever appropriate. Dr. Narmada was very nice about that. This interaction is what prompted me to mention it as a possible topic. Anyway, we can hold that discussion here in a separate thread.

But during the course of the meet, it was clear that this friendliness issue is not just about artist friendliness. There are several top researchers/minds among our membership who have original content to offer but are reluctant to write about that here at our site. The content is quite varied from musical and instrumental techniques to personal anecdotes gathered by disciples from their famous gurus on certain aspects of concert performance to research efforts on the effect of music on the brain. The reluctance comes from fear of damage to their reputation. Validly so. Many of them publish in peer reviewed journals in their fields and if they encounter some unsavory reactions, why would they bother to put up with that? Some may engage in a debate on a few occasions but many will simply walk away since it is just not worth it. That is our real loss.

These are some of the issues that came up which I thought I will highlight here. We will pick this up for discussion in separate threads over time. May be one solution is to have a sanitized sub-forum for scholarly discussions where the moderators take a decidedly active role if the debate goes out of hand ( which happens only rarely but that possibility is what makes people uncomfortable ). This is indeed a form of content moderation with fully disclosed authoritarianism which is one sided and with no pretensions about fairness etc. That type of moderation can be restricted to just one or two sub-forums. Just a thought!! More later.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 31 Dec 2010, 21:07

VK
Mine was just a joke of seeing 11 photos and equating to a team. Possibly you may have taken bit differently than my intent . Yes i agree there is a lot to communicate in future , it is bit difficult to impossible to collectively work together , but a majority of us can work in reducing the perhaps perceived or real( dont know for sure which side it is ) unfriendliness.

Sorry all for the little detour, this post is more to clarify the nonstop near round the clock mods like VK who do the constant and near impossible gatekeeping . As vk said, we will have seperate threads to talk,discuss and debate each of that.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Dec 2010, 21:26

Rajesh: No problem at all.. Intent fully understood. I just used that context as a segue to what I wanted to write about..

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Dec 2010, 21:34

Here is the group photo at the end of the meet taken with my phone camera. The professional photographer took the same scene with his camera which would be much better quality.

I will let Rajesh provide the mapping to names.. ( and Nick is just Nick, no last name as he has indicated elsewhere)

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 31 Dec 2010, 22:01

Congratulations to Sri Nageswaran and other rasikas for pulling off this meet! How I wish I was there. What a great place this forum is, occasional inclement weather notwithstanding

And now I know what VK looks like!

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 31 Dec 2010, 23:02

Dear Global Rasikas,

Wish you all a very Happy New Year.

To make you all happier, The Photo Album of our Global Rasikas Meet 2010
Taken on 19.12.2010 is uploaded.
Down load the link given below to view the complete album.

http://picasaweb.google.com/snageswaran ... directlink

S.NAGESWARAN
31.12.2010.
.

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 01 Jan 2011, 00:40

Just great to see & enjoy these photos !
ThX Sri Nageswaran.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 01 Jan 2011, 01:43

May be one solution is to have a sanitized sub-forum for scholarly discussions where the moderators take a decidedly active role if the debate goes out of hand ( which happens only rarely but that possibility is what makes people uncomfortable ). This is indeed a form of content moderation with fully disclosed authoritarianism which is one sided and with no pretensions about fairness etc. That type of moderation can be restricted to just one or two sub-forums. Just a thought!!

There is no need for content moderation, there is need for behaviour moderation. A simple set of rules, eg no personal slurs or attacks, which are strictly implemented forum-wide. That is what almost every forum does. Nobody can please all of the people all of the time, of course, but...

(it occurs to me that if this is rocket science, we can ask VKV for help!

Thanks all, for the photos!

munirao2001 · Post by **munirao2001** » 01 Jan 2011, 12:38

S.Nageshwaran,
Please give your Bank details - a/c.no, IFC Code no and branch code and the branch name. I wish to send my contribution of Rs.1,000/- by EFT, as I am located at Bengaluru.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 01 Jan 2011, 17:06

Sri KSS Raghavan,

I have received your voluntary contribution of Rs.2000/= by cheque.

Thank you for the same.

My best wishes to you and your family for a very happy NEW YEAR.

S.NAGESWARAN.
01.01.2011.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 01 Jan 2011, 17:09

Sri Muni rao,

I have sent the details called for by you through E-Mail via Rasikas.org website.

Thank you for your contribution.

S.NAGESWARAN.
01.01.2011.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 01 Jan 2011, 22:40

Thanks Nageswaran for the Photo Album which speaks volumes!
How come I don't see Arasi or Thimma in any of them?

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 01 Jan 2011, 22:53

cmlover wrote:Thanks Nageswaran for the Photo Album which speaks volumes!
How come I don't see Arasi or Thimma in any of them?

Arasi is there in row 3 , fourth photo , she is talking in a pink dress with nAgeshwaran Sir seated in the left side frame.

ThimmA is in the 4th row from bottom, Fifth Photo , a light orange jibbA

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 02 Jan 2011, 02:31

Sorry your numberings appear wrong!
No thimma in photo 5/100
Possible profile of arasi in 4/100... not clear

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 02 Jan 2011, 02:50

Arasi: 18/100
Thimma: 82/100

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 02 Jan 2011, 04:36

Thx VK
Got them

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 02 Jan 2011, 05:27

Dear Rasikas,

The Video coverage of the entire proceedings of our meet is available in 4 DVDS and separate handy cam coverage of the audience is also available with me.

The format of the video is â€œTSâ€ with the video content of 16 sets of nearly 1 GB each.

With the limitation of free upload being 200 MB, I have to split them into near about 170 to 190 MB for easy upload.
I am not having any software to split the Video contents to 200 MBS.

I would be happy if any of the Chennai based Rasika is able to help me in spliting the video content so that I can upload the Videos with their available software.

Chennai based Rasikas who can help me may send an E-Mail to me through our web site.

S.NAGESWARAN.
02.01.2011.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 04 Jan 2011, 13:52

Respected Prathyaksham Bala,

I have received volentary donation of RS.1000/= [cheque] From you.

Thank you for the same.

S.NAGESWARAN.
04.01.2011.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 08 Jan 2011, 05:13

Dear Rasikas,

After 4 days of ill health, I am back to complete my last part of my work of uploading of the entire Video coverage of our Global Rasikas meet 2010.

My best friend from Bangalore, Sri KRISHNA PRASAD gave me the software for splitting the Video files and the first volume of the Video coverage link is given below.

The VIDEO starts with an auspicious Nattaikurunji varnam played in flute.

The download links for first DVD is given below.

08.01.2011 RASIKAS MEET VIDEO down load LINKS DVD 1.

1. http://www.mediafire.com/file/oba7adx49 ... T%201.divx

2. http://www.mediafire.com/file/9y05gvhtn ... T%202.divx

3. http://www.mediafire.com/file/nb0irxv71 ... T%203.divx

4. http://www.mediafire.com/file/vtlhaxgqd ... %2004.divx

5. http://www.mediafire.com/file/gc18a37f4 ... %2005.divx

6. http://www.mediafire.com/file/apo6bnsfg ... %2006.divx

7. http://www.mediafire.com/file/v995d7q2q ... %2007.divx

S.NAGESWARAN.
08.01.2011

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jan 2011, 06:03

Many many thanks Nageswaran for the video feed which will enable us to see and hear what we abroad have missed.
Special thanks to Krishna Prasad for providing you the software.
Do take your time to share the rest of the videos which will however be eagerly awaited by us!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jan 2011, 07:51

Excellent Videography! hats off to them!
Particularly enjoying the spontaneous humour of VKV who pays attention to everybody and keeps them on an edge- a true Democrat! I guess that is what he is

(sorry Republicans

Nice to see our Govindan honoured and his proverbial modesty like his hero!
We are blessed to have role models like him in our membership!

cacm · Post by **cacm** » 08 Jan 2011, 09:22

CMLOVER:
You are correct! At the risk of being audited by IRS, I have to confess that I pull the Democrat lever in the voting booth to save time& energy tho' lately it has become a case of: "Raman andal yenna Ravanan andal yenna".......VKV

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 08 Jan 2011, 16:51

dear shri Nageswaran Avl,
Many thanx for the video links. Excellent coverage.
With wishes,
Thanjavooran 08 01 2011