Bangalore – Salem – Pollachi – Udumalpet – Munnar – Adimali – Kothamangalam – Aluva – Ernakulam – Mattancherry.

ofcourse, this is not by choice, there was no other option. no complaints though!
Have fun all of you!

aa chaandni bhi meri tarah jaag rahi hai
palkon pe charaagon ko liye raat khadi hai…

hariharan live @ Bangalore – 10 more days to go!
Venue : Christ College Auditorium, Near Diary circle, Bangalore.

Now Playing: Barso re megha megha – Shreya Ghoshal.

I’m happy to announce that Adobe has set up a Flex development contest for students in India. If you’re pursuing a degree in any stream (full-time) from a recognised university, you could spend some time over the next four months building something cool in Flex and walk away with a prize of fifty thousand rupees!

Submissions can be in 3 categories: engineering (components), applications, and ColdFusion integration. Each category has a prize of Rs. 50,000. You can participate individually or as a team of upto 5 members.

Note these important dates in 2007:

1. Send us your proposal by the 10th of January.
2. Send us your prototype by the 31st of January.
3. Send us your complete implementation by the 27th of February.
4. Winners will be announced on the 10th of March.

If you have any questions or issues, check out the students forum.

For latest up-to-date information, visit the Adobe Developer Olympiad page.

Write-up courtesy: Manish Jethani

For tickets, visit http://www.alaaplive.com or call 91 80 64519707.
Contact Person: Mr Sharath Vatsa.

A great sign indeed. Me is very happy!

… Harish came next. He started off well with Uyire Uyire. Again his singing style of adding electric improvisations at end of each line does not suit this song very well. Also he breaks lines (pauses added) at different points and this affects the flow of the song. After he adds the improvisations at the end he looks at the judges and audience — as if asking for their feedback or approval. This style of singing might be influenced by his interest in ghazals. But it is not enjoyable at all for songs we are already familiar with in a different formal or flow.Shreenivas commented that Harish kind of sang the song in a happy tone. This again I think comes from this ghazal like singing (where even saddest of lines in the ghazal are sung with a smile and with pauses and improvisations!)

I take the critisicm about me not singing well by its stride, but my feeling are with this man who feels improvisations affect the flow of the song. Also he makes an outrageous remark that the saddes ghazal is sang with a smile on the face. I have no words for him. I only pray thatGod blesses him, along with all other folks in the world who cannot appreciate ghazals – The toughest and most sublime manifestation of music – and give them the ear for good music rather than for the stupid mimicry of imitating the original artiste or your guru or any other artiste in the world.

I am going to make an outrageous comment in response to the comment written about ghazals

Life of a person who cannot appreciate ghazals is completely wasted. I categorize them as losers of the first order.

Long live creative musicians , let imitation and the traditional view that promotes imitation die its natural death and let the artistes imagination soar the heights of heavens.

In short – Long live ghazals & the likes of ghazals & ghazal artistes!

There are people, then there is God
There are musicians, then there is Padmashree Hariharan

Respected Hari Ji,

I am convinced that if GOD ever sang, he would sound exactly like you.

Sahasrakodi namaskarams!
Harish – a worshipper of ur music.

… sab ke honthon pe tabassum tha, mere qatl ke baad
jaane kya soch ke rota raha qaatil tanhaa…..