MEETING THE BANGALORE RASIKAS OF THE FORUM.

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 22 Jun 2011, 16:30

Radhika-Rajnarayan wrote: My father has been taken ill suddenly and I need to admit him in hospital today. I am at home just for a couple of hrs to organise things here before I rush off.
Radhika

Very Sorry to hear your father is not well. We pray for his health and speedy recovery.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 22 Jun 2011, 18:31

Radhika-Rajnarayan, sorry to hear about your father's health. Praying for his speedy recovery.

raghavt · Post by **raghavt** » 22 Jun 2011, 18:54

Radhika-Rajnarayan wrote:My father has been taken ill suddenly and I need to admit him in hospital today. Regards
Radhika

Sorry to hear that, may he get well soon.

raghavt · Post by **raghavt** » 22 Jun 2011, 18:54

BTW Can't wait till Saturday

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 22 Jun 2011, 19:08

Radhika Rajnarain: We wish your DAD Godspeed recovery

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 22 Jun 2011, 19:21

Radhika Rajnarayan, praying for the speedy recovery of your father

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Jun 2011, 19:31

Radhika-Rajnarayan, Sorry to hear about the ill health of your father. Our best wishes for him to get better soon.

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 22 Jun 2011, 20:11

Radhika-ji. Sorry to hear about your father's illness. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 22 Jun 2011, 23:21

Radhika-Rajnarayan,

I am really sorry to hear the news.

I pray to GOD for the speedy recovery of the health of your father.

S.NAGESWARAN.

22.06.2011,

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 23 Jun 2011, 09:11

Dear BG Rasikas,

Rasikas who are attending our meet may kindly bring their portable harddiscs and pendrives above 4 GB

TO COPY ANY VIDEO AND AUDIO FROM MY COLLECTIONS.

S.NAGESWARAN.

23.06.2011.

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 23 Jun 2011, 10:08

May be we can have it in Yelagiri, so that we also can visit a hill station as well and if forum artists joins we can have a good concert too!

Radhika-Rajnarayan · Post by **Radhika-Rajnarayan** » 23 Jun 2011, 12:59

Heartfelt thanks to all of you for your prayers and wishes - you are all so kind- my father has improved, though still in hospital. Wishing all of you once again, a lovely get together,
Radhika

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 23 Jun 2011, 13:09

Relieved to hear good news about your father.

Wishing you all a good get-together!

gardabha_gana · Post by **gardabha_gana** » 23 Jun 2011, 21:56

cienu sir - what is the nearest BMTC Stop to your house. Is it Gottigere - where the 365 volvo series stops? Is it walkable from there ? Thanks.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 23 Jun 2011, 23:07

The next stop after Gottigere. Ask for Basavanpura Bus Stop. Royal Hermitage is right opposite

eppramod · Post by **eppramod** » 24 Jun 2011, 15:49

Hi All,

Unfortunately I will not be in Bangalore this weekend.Will miss this one.
Hoping to attend next one.

Wishing all of you a wonderful get-together.

Regards,
Pramod

braindrain · Post by **braindrain** » 25 Jun 2011, 12:58

I am also travelling out of Bangalore today evening. however, i will drop in for a short period of time..

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 25 Jun 2011, 18:46

A wonderful and enjoyable Rasikas meet.

a detailed report will follow later. 4 pictures below (credit - BADARI)

front row (l to r) vs manjunath (with a striped t shirt),raghavt,saundarya(my 2nd daughter) , Geetha (my wife),Gardhabha gana (behind Saundarya),
2nd row - all seated (l to r) balaji sampath,my mother Smt Radha Viswanathan, Sri Gobilalitha (seated with a walking seat)
3rd row - standing (l to r) - Smt Gobilalitha, Srividya,Aishwarya,Sri Nageswaran, Sri Madhava Rao, Smt Nageswaran. Yours truly is standing extreme left - below the MS silouhette picture.)

Almost all people are here again - except Badari who is seated behind Saundarya.

Amma gives a small message to the Rasikas.org community.

Squims on the left and braindrain who came in a bit later

cacm · Post by **cacm** » 25 Jun 2011, 19:01

Very nice pics esp of Radha! Thanks. VKV

veeyens3 · Post by **veeyens3** » 25 Jun 2011, 19:07

Who is the gentleman sitting on the chair with a walking stick similar to mine. I compliment him on his taste . May Sri rama bless you all

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 25 Jun 2011, 19:18

veeyens,
That's our GBL!

Cienu,
Good to see the pictures so quickly! Waiting for others. Your mother's presence and the energy of your grandmother which pervades the place is reflected on the faces I see.

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 25 Jun 2011, 19:56

Shri Cienu,
Excellent. Thanx for the instant feed back.
Thanjavooran 25 06 2011

semmu86 · Post by **semmu86** » 25 Jun 2011, 21:33

Glad to see the wonderful pics. Ill health forced me out of this meet

Apologies for not making it.. Hoping to see the Bangalore rasikas next time...

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 25 Jun 2011, 22:53

Kindly find below a link to Picasa wherein pictures of the Rasikas Bangalore meet have been uploaded.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1129890607 ... 3769613010
we missed semmu who suddenly took ill and svkashyap who may have had some other urgent engagement.

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 25 Jun 2011, 23:33

Cienu, thanks for posting the lovely pics. It is nice to see pictures of three generations of (musicians and music lovers) in your family! Of course, it is wonderful to see the Bangalore rasikas too.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 25 Jun 2011, 23:44

Cienu,
All that started, all that took place went well
And ended well too--to put it another way,
It all went fabulously well, no doubt!

Thanks for the extra pictures. There are a few forumites I cannot identify. Since it was an 'informal' gathering, I suppose those who were there had plenty of time to interact and to get to know each other's names. They could help us identify the unfamiliar faces there.
Who plays the violin for Aishwarya? I see Lalitha (the other half of GBL) singing. Who's the one in blue who also sings?

squims · Post by **squims** » 26 Jun 2011, 01:27

Had an amazing time meeting so many fellow rasikas!
Thanks first and foremost to Nageswaran sir for coming up with the plan to meet up, and to Cienu sir and his family for being the most gracious hosts!

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 26 Jun 2011, 01:42

Thank you for the pictures!

I can put a face to few more names now!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 26 Jun 2011, 03:44

Thank you so much for uploading the pictures. It looks like it was a really happy event

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 26 Jun 2011, 04:26

sUdu aaRarattukku minnAlayE, picture ellam poTTAcchu. Thanks so much.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 26 Jun 2011, 05:42

arasi wrote: Who plays the violin for Aishwarya? I see Lalitha (the other half of GBL) singing. Who's the one in blue who also sings?

Arasi,
The lady in blue is Sridevi who sang wonderfully & is a forumite who introduced herself as an avid reader of rasikas.org but who writes very occasionally. In fact she had just landed a few hours back from London and came to this meet fighting a jet lag

GBL's wife too sang an Ashtapadi and moved our hearts. Madhav Rao regaled us with Dasara Padagalu. Saundarya gave a demonstration of her progress on the violin and also sang a bhajan. The group also sang "Raghupathi Raghava Raja Ram " together. svkashyap who was to bring a violin, unfortunately did not turn up, (possibly due to pressing engagements). The meet commenced with "Pankaja Lochana" - Amma and Aishwarya singing together, after which Aishwarya played the veena.
Post the get together, we were served with piping hot Semiya Upma & Rava Kesari made by Geetha's mother along with Samosas and lemon grass tea made from freshly plucked leaves. Sri Nageswaran was kind enough to bring his hard disk and a few Rasikas could copy the Trichy Sankaran tapes and other videos like the previous Rasikas meet held at Chennai. On the whole it was truly a very enjoyable meet and my sincere thanks to the Rasikas who made it. Will surely try and upload a few videos in a day or 2.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 26 Jun 2011, 06:46

Cienu,
What a blunder on my part! Of course I saw Soundarya in the pictures that you posted first. When I quickly scanned the album, though I know Soundarya plays the violin, the profile shots and her serious mien fooled me as I went through the pictures! She may feel offended that Arasi PATTi did not recognize her

Tell her that it was merely because she looked so serious and grown up in those pictures

And to think I was 'almost' there in Bengaluru yesterday

Good to know Jayashri and others took the trouble to come. When Aishwarya plays her great grandmother's vINA, you cannot but feel MSS's aura around you.You may remember the poem I wrote about listening to Aishwarya when she played on the vINA for me for the first time. I cannot type in tamizh fonts. If only one of the KavidaigaL Section friends who has a copy of my book can do that for me! Otherwise, I will type it in transliteration. I have a feeling it may strike a chord in the rasikAs who were gathered there yesterday.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 26 Jun 2011, 07:06

arasi wrote: When Aishwarya plays her great grandmother's vINA, you cannot but feel MSS's aura around you.You may remember the poem I wrote about listening to Aishwarya when she played on the vINA for me for the first time. I cannot type in tamizh fonts. If only one of the KavidaigaL Section friends who has a copy of my book can do that for me! Otherwise, I will type it in transliteration. I have a feeling it may strike a chord in the rasikAs who were gathered there yesterday.

Ofcourse Arasi , I do remember when you composed this instantly on hearing Aishwarya play the veena (sometime in Jan 2008)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 26 Jun 2011, 07:13

Wow, Cienu! You still have that piece of paper!
Then again, it's not a surprise. You're your mother's son in meticulously collecting memorabilia of your grandmother when most of us haven't paid much attention to preserving family history.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 26 Jun 2011, 07:17

Thanks for sharing the photos. Glad the meet went off well!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 26 Jun 2011, 08:39

Very nice to see the photos of this successful meet. May there be many more!

Arasi, that was a beautiful note you wrote!

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 26 Jun 2011, 10:58

yes , it was a very enjoyable day , Cienu sparing no pains to make the function a grandsuccess. Those who sang made a great impression. the surprise of the day was sri Madhava Rao , a bosom friend of Sri.Ngeswaran who delighted us by singing some dasar padagalu with devotion,bhakti , bhavam with sangatis of a very pleasing nature. He was the man of the match , I make a very special mention of mr.Madhava rao bescause he said that he did not have any basic knowledge of carnatic music, unbelievably true.Aishwarya delighted us with her soulful rendering of bhavam filled 'pankajalochana' and the highly popular sarasa samadhana on the veena . AIshwarya has touched greater heights since i heard her 2 years back. Let me end my narration witha joke as usual . . In the oldendays 60 to 70 years bck it was a status symbol to arrange a kutcheri of legendary Ariyakkdi in marriages conducted by zamindars and other highly rich persons After one such kutcheri when bidding good bye to Ariyakkudi,a zamindar whose IS an aurangazeb of music just to flatter ARIYAKKUDI said ' NAAN MUNNAI KETTADAI VIDA eppo innunm romba nallapadarel. ARIYAKKUDI retorted ' naan eppavum pola than pdaren , avvidathile gnanam valanthirukku . I am reciting this because i wrote thatA ISWARYA HAS TOUCHED GREATER HEIGHTS THAN BEFORE. Enakku than gnanam valandirukku

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 26 Jun 2011, 11:16

Dear Global Rasikas,

Next time any global Rasika visit India,they must make a compulsary visit to

the Heritage home of of our Cienu's home.

The various photos of MS AMMA decorating the hall receiving innumarable awards

from the various VIPS in India and other nations must be seen.

Do come with a camera and have them photograffed and kept with them for posterity

of the legendary MS AMMA.

Then you can see the Veena used by Sri Rangaramanujam presented to MS AMMA.

Also the Veena used by MS AMMA and hear Cienu explaining the places where MS AMMA

played in some important concerts with Veena around the world.

I have to give so many reports about the Rasikas' meet at Bangalore.

Suffice to say that the meet was a sublime one with the presence of

MRS RADHA AMMA who sat through the entire programme enjoying every moment

of the music sung by differant Rasikas.

I am giving the download link of MRS RADHA AMMA greeting the Rasikas.

1. http://www.mediafire.com/file/y1ddw400l ... NATHAN.wav

Kindly pardon me for the spelling mistakes.

S.NAGESWARAN.

26.06.2011.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 26 Jun 2011, 12:15

Wonderful photos of Bangalore Royal Challengers. Special Kudos to saundarya on picking up violin which was news to me. BTW gardabha gAna looks almost like the brother of mannArkoil balaji(mridhangam) .

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 26 Jun 2011, 13:22

superb! you have taken us all with you with these good pictures!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 26 Jun 2011, 20:09

YES! G_g DOES look like Mannarkoil Balaji!

gardabha_gana · Post by **gardabha_gana** » 26 Jun 2011, 21:10

First of all - my brother and I had a wonderful afternoon at cienu sir's home, something that will be in my memory forever. I would like to sincerely thank him and his family for being such wonderful hosts. For me, having grown up listening to MS Pati's music - every year at the RSM in the late 70s through the mid 80s - this was like a dream. I never imagined that I will be in a photograph with Smt. Radha amma, of course - dreams do come true!
Kum. Aishwarya singing Pankaja Lochani with Smt. Radha amma brought back complimentary memories from those times. My father and our family had heard them near our house at the "Mini Forest" couple of years back (starting with Era Napai) - and recently I had wondered on this forum if she was performing

Kum Aishwarya played kalyani varnam and Sarasa sama dhana on MS Pati's veena! The brighas were so exquisite on the veena - I was reminded of a program on national program of music (that used to come on saturday nights on AIR) when a performance of Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer was broadcast in the late 70s/early 80s of the same song, and my father's reminiscences of the maestro - those were my early days of initiation to music.
Sri Madhava rao sang some never heard before (at least by me) dasara padagalu. He seems to be very comfortable with both Kannada and Tamil! Smt. Sridevi's kanaka dasa song - and Smt. GBL's ashtapadi, and young Soundarya's violin and "raghupati raghava" made it a very memorable afternoon. Thanks much to Sri. Nageswaran who took the initiative and cienu sir and family for hosting it at their beautiful house.

I have heard couple of others mention resemblance with "mridhangam" Vid. Mannarkoil Balaji. In fact, when I attended LGJ sir's 80th celebrations at the music academy Vid. Ramh's father talked to me as though I was vidwan Mannarkoil Balaji !! Hope to get some layam knowledge someday (http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 0&p=198348 and http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 9&p=194335)

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 27 Jun 2011, 01:37

Please find below the video links of the recent Rasikas meet which have since been uploaded to youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jRgk-bbQ4 Pankaja Lochana - Smt Radha & Aishwarya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAkJB8we3g Veena - S.Aishwarya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjW56dwWaw0 Dasara Padagalu - Sri madhava Rao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKm-tJ7UVFc Song by Kanakadasa - Sridevi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErUOyszshY Ashtapadi - Smt Lalitha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqyBevz_Ss Violin - Saundarya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZYD9cAj ... ideo_title Bhajan - Saundarya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpecASn3 ... ideo_title All Rasikas - Raghupathy Raghava Raja Ram

Sri Nageswaran can upload a few more songs , sung by Sri Madhav Rao in case the video is available.

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 27 Jun 2011, 07:27

What a treat!

Thank you!!

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 27 Jun 2011, 07:44

I am very sorry Iam very late in appreciating cienu for hosting this enjoyable event. I t was almost like a picnic to go to his residence, wonderful treat for the ears,a memorable pleasure for the eyes(especiallymeetingSMT,RADHA VISWANATHAN) and other friends , and a feast for the stomach, items served one after the other to our belly's content. the hospitality of his family members. above all posting all the songs, a highly informative report .waiting for one more gettogether soon

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 27 Jun 2011, 09:16

Another of the musical events in Bangalore I missed this week -- Neela mami's and Sri Sankaran Namboodhiri's concerts being others. Happy to know it went well! And also happy to finally recognise g_g, cienu and others.

svkashyap · Post by **svkashyap** » 27 Jun 2011, 10:15

Bad luck. I had to skip this meet due to some unavoidable circumstances. Good to see bangalore rasikas had a wonderful time. Thanks to cienu. Yet to go thru pics and videos.

raghavt · Post by **raghavt** » 27 Jun 2011, 15:00

Hi All,

Sorry for being late here, my Internet connection was down. Thank you very much Cienu sir and family for hosting all of us... the whole even was wonderful and I enjoyed every bit of it (but my face in the pictures may speak otherwise... please ignore that

) Looking forward for many more such meets.

Thank you very much Nageswaran sir for taking the lead in organizing this meet.

Regards,
~ Raghav

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 27 Jun 2011, 15:45

Sri Nageswaran is great at bringing people together.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 27 Jun 2011, 19:19

While each participant did a very good job of rendition, Saundarya's bhajan is mention worthy in that she has a gaNeer voice. Thanks for sharing the videos with us.