Welcome to new members

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 22 Nov 2007, 08:34

Kji:
Welcome Back!!!!

meena · Post by **meena** » 22 Nov 2007, 08:40

Kji

Hope ur feeling well and glad to have u back

ram · Post by **ram** » 22 Nov 2007, 08:50

Wow !!!!!! What a pleasant surprise

Welcome back Coolji !!!!!! Couldn't have asked for a better post in the forum to start the day with.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 22 Nov 2007, 09:50

Now, all is well, Cool!
COOL! and swAgat!

vageyakara · Post by **vageyakara** » 22 Nov 2007, 10:11

There is no gainsaying the fact, that the short AGNAATHAVAASAM HAS ATLAST BEEN BROKEN FOR GOOD. Through the re-arrival of Cools'ji I am sure the forum is bound to get rejuvenated with his unflinching involvement and dedicated contributions I hope he would have completely
recovered from the recent trauma arising out of a minor accident he met with and is fastly recuperating Thank God !!!
Ramaraj

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Nov 2007, 12:29

Very glad to see you back here Kji.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 22 Nov 2007, 15:31

coolkarni wrote:I am a new member here again.

welcome back!

vgvindan · Post by **vgvindan** » 22 Nov 2007, 15:59

coolkarni,
welcome back.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 22 Nov 2007, 17:00

I will say it once again! Welcome back! All of us our congratulating ourselves about our persuasiveness!

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 22 Nov 2007, 17:59

Nice to have you back on the forum Coolkarni !

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 22 Nov 2007, 19:11

Welcome back Sri Kulkarni and hope your are feeling better.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 23 Nov 2007, 00:55

Coolkarni?

I'm sure I used to know someone of that name...

I guess it must be quite a long while back now... ...

Glad to see you back

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 23 Nov 2007, 01:42

Dear coolkarni
I certainly am not going to welcome you back

since you were never gone but was only taking a break. For many of us the 'vipralambha (no translation available in english!) was long and unbearable but like the proverbial cAtaka we awaited your arrival and God was merciful. Now let us continue from where you left off and those glorious anecdotes which are object-lessons to the youngsters should continue!
I recollect the return to life of King Bhoja after the encomium by kALidAsa.. and in that spirit

adya rasikA rasa pUritA sasya punar bhUtA mEdinI
paNDitA maNDitAscaiva kim nu coolkarni ''Forum' AgatE
( Today the rasikas are filled with 'rasa' and the earth is again turned green and the scholars are flocking and why not, since coolkarni has returned to our Forum !)

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:08

ram wrote:Wow !!!!!! What a pleasant surprise

Welcome back Coolji !!!!!! Couldn't have asked for a better post in the forum to start the day with.

Ram I wish you will also restart your reviews for the season.

paddu · Post by **paddu** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:52

Coolji,
welcome back. Wish I could say something like cml.... I am very glad that you are back.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 24 Nov 2007, 07:12

What a pleasant surprise! Welcome back

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 24 Nov 2007, 07:36

Welcome back coolji

(and i did not even know there was a welcoming party going on in this thread!)

Arun

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 24 Nov 2007, 09:06

Kulkarni avare,

matte svAgata :=)

arunk

I was in the same boad too !

-Ramakriya

chalanata · Post by **chalanata** » 24 Nov 2007, 10:29

cooji,
welcome! (till next hybernation?!!!)
where you can go and without you where we will go!

msakella · Post by **msakella** » 30 Nov 2007, 15:18

Dear brother-member, coolji, I join with all our brother/sister-members in heartily welcoming you back. amsharma.

rajesh_rs · Post by **rajesh_rs** » 01 Dec 2007, 11:22

Hi folks,

I've been led to some of these discussions from web searches and so on, and have found the forum interesting. It is good to see an active forum on one of my recent interests - Carnatic music. Hope to gain from the interactions I have here and get a better appreciation of different aspects of this art and science!

avichinnu · Post by **avichinnu** » 02 Dec 2007, 22:43

Dear Kulkarniji,
HEARTY WELCOME !

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 03 Dec 2007, 00:01

Curiously the Return of Kulkarni sparks in my memory The Return of Sherlock Holmes following his 'death' in The Adventure of the Final Problem in which Arthur Conan Doyle wrapped up his love affair with the sleuth. But then the clamour from the Rasika crowd was too much for him to bear and Holmes/kulkarni returned gloriously and successfully to please the reading/listening public for many more years to come

As a keen student of Doyle I am sure coolkarni will appreciate this analogy since on all counts it is the Rasikas who are the Winners!

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 03 Dec 2007, 00:07

Although some Holmes fans had complained that the 'Return' stories somehow didn't live up to the earlier standards set by Doyle - we can be sure that's not the case with Cool-ji

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 03 Dec 2007, 00:25

That is elementary my dear Watson

And indeed our 'Holmes' died on the encounter with the bad 'Professor Moriarty' and that is an exciting episode for the Rasikas only if he chooses to narrate

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 03 Dec 2007, 09:16

Chooses to narrate !!!

:o

I have no claims to knowledge like Moriarty (or Parriarty !!) and would not like reveal more than just to say I am a bit more like Dr Watson-
acutely alive when History is being made around me.
I prefer to ignore the kkara bites and thank my stars for the few moments of Glory , I have been blessed with.
Watch out for my piece on an afternoon with TRS (That Vidwan in a perpetual Musical reverie) or about my several one-on-one sessions with Lalgudi Jayraman .
Just yesterday I played a piece of his own recording to Lalgudi over phone for about 10 minutes- a piece of music he had thought was lost for ever , but actually was safe with me.
The sound of Lalgudi Jayaraman Chuckling across the line ,to his opening salvo of Hindolam in response to Amjad Ali khan at Kgs 1975 ,is the kind of experience that eggs me on.
His act of passing his hand over me as a blessing and pressing my DVD gifts to his eyes in a act of Prayer is a testimony to what a lifetime of association with finearts can do to ones personality.
I Thank Lord Almighty for the experience of hearing Lalgudi Jayaraman sing to me Echariga Ra Ra with some special change in the kalapramanam , follow it up a great ghazal of Mehdi Hasan in Jog, recount his experiences with GNB-MMI , three (his contemporary) artists who did not get the recognition they deserved and for whom his heart bled , his unalloyed summing up of Hindusthani Music..... and so much more.
All because of a short post by me titled "The Perfect 10' and some very simple hearted Souls like NSG, GJR and Vijayalakshmi...
So as you can see , I owe it all to rasikas.org, but the darker part of my experiences can remain with me.
and you cannot say that I have not given enough clues !
But let us not discuss that.The ones who can recognise the bad Professor can stop with an understanding smile.
As long as people across the spectrum here are convinced -like me - that the need of the hour is wider dissemination of knowledge -without an element of Self Glorification , I will be around to do my bit.
Thanks for Everything.
Sd..Watson

ninjathegreat · Post by **ninjathegreat** » 03 Dec 2007, 11:15

My dear Watson,

We will definitely be enthralled and honored if you take up the role of Holmes in his stead, and narrate to us the enthralling encounters with these masters

...

sd/- Inspector Lestrade

:):)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Dec 2007, 17:08

Our rasika supreme would carry on sharing music and spreading good humor. Tis the season of goodwill and we can expect sackful of goodies and delectable anecdotes. Ninja, I would rather be a child in the candy shop rejoicing the arrival of Santa!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 03 Dec 2007, 21:44

Dear coolkarni! That should say it all!
I noticed that the 'new coolkarni' is a totally new vamped design and not 'old wine in a new bottle'. The addition of new 'plug-ins' (in the form of a host of stellar performers both veterans and budding youngsters) bodes well for the avid groups of cmlovers flocking to rasikas.org. But I still hope the old 'sparks of fire' are still energetic and the 'body' is strong enough to withstand the 'mach 3' speed we wish to push in the new year

Though this old horse cannot learn new tricks, yet the prospect of a new technology bringing us together in the cyberspace concurrently is exciting and rejuvinating. So as we soar with you to the tunes of divine CM let the banter continue for what is a community experience of CM without visulas and audio of the whispers of silken sAries and Rasika Banter:)

arasi
I second your views and look forward to your weaving them into a deliightful 'novel' with the craftiness of Sherazad

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 09 Dec 2007, 16:51

I see a nice familiar name again in the users online section.
Am I dreaming.?
Or is it the Birmingham Composer, indeed !!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 09 Dec 2007, 18:51

I did too. Yes, now he is our beloved 'Midlands' composer.I was privileged to chat with him on the phone when I was in London recently. Hoping to meet him in spring...

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 09 Dec 2007, 20:03

Really! Then we are blessed ! The New Year will be bright and (musically) shiny...

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 09 Dec 2007, 21:42

Oh, the talents of the young! You and I would like to live longer to see them blossom more and enrich CM!

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 22 Dec 2007, 14:58

srkris...I thought this would be a good place as well to say "goodbye" to you and the other rasika friends. I am sick and tired of all the mudslings and other nonsense that is being thrown at people for no rhyme or reason. I am stepping out of this group. Thanks for every thing.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 22 Dec 2007, 16:41

Any online (or even physical, I suppose) collection of people will have their ups and downs.

Given that an internet forum is a self-selecting group, perhaps much more so than one's encounters with selected people offline.

That's it: rough and smooth and all that; do please reconsider, you will be sadly missed.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Dec 2007, 22:17

Sam, I saw your post at the TNS Krishna thread before srkris cleaned them all out for good reasons. You got caught in the swirling current of the ongoing cross-thread discussion with elevated sensibilities. Please don't sweat it.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 23 Dec 2007, 18:31

Sam,

There is no reason for people to get sick of anything. As Nick says, every group or community will have ups and downs. Its because of misunderstandings and lack of proper communication. People need not protest against the entire community for that by getting out of it.

I am sure good sense will eventually prevail.

snrajan · Post by **snrajan** » 12 Jan 2008, 13:04

Dear all,

I am a new member willing to learn. I ardent listener of carnatic music ( and also hindustani but limited to vocal and only particular musicians ). I am trying to learn l vocal but so far not succeeded and also tryiing flute since last 1 year or so with not much success. I have learnt this only to become a good and soulful listener of CM.

I am sorry to state that I am a late joiner of the forum since long, but better late than never. I am interested to follow the discussions here and and gain some valuable knowledge.

Is there an age bar for learning?

I wish this forum goes on forever. I thank you all for having created such a great forum.

Regards,

snrajan

vageyakara · Post by **vageyakara** » 12 Jan 2008, 13:18

hearty welcome S N R ,
As far as CM learning is concerned ,age bar does not arise at all .As you grow older, your maturity of musical thoughts grows younger and the spiri continues to be t kept aloft !!!

iyerval_rasigan · Post by **iyerval_rasigan** » 26 Jan 2008, 14:25

hello rasigas,

this is mahadevan - a new forumite.
i have been a silent observer since the forum's inception but finally decided to join your family.
hope i will be welcomed.
i am a fan of semmangudi iyerval and hence the user name.

regards,
kovai mahadevan.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 26 Jan 2008, 14:30

Welcome Mahadevan!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 26 Jan 2008, 14:57

It sounds like you joined the family some time back!

Welcome!

rar90 · Post by **rar90** » 13 Feb 2008, 11:47

Hi all!
I'm Avinash from bangalore, joined today.I'm learning carnatic music for 3 years(vocal).I would like to thank all the carnatic music fans for running such a wonderful website! This website is very informative.Thank you all

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 13 Feb 2008, 12:01

Welcome Avinash.

kannankkd · Post by **kannankkd** » 21 Feb 2008, 13:56

i am kannan from dubai.

inpursuit · Post by **inpursuit** » 22 Feb 2008, 10:43

Hi all,
I've never been the one to join a forum or for that matter have too much of a 'connection' to the internet.
But this forum really is something. Great energy, information here apart from being a superb place to be spending time on from work!!
Hope to enjoy this!

Rahul.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Feb 2008, 11:07

Welcome Kannan and Rahul.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 23 Feb 2008, 01:00

Welcome to inpursuit

saidhar · Post by **saidhar** » 27 Feb 2008, 12:40

I am Sai... very excited to join a carnatic music discussion group... hope to share and enjoy some good moments about carnatic music.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 27 Feb 2008, 13:05

Sai, Welcome to the Rasikas forum.