Launching Southern Samba(r).. (south india special

The "Unconquered South" - perhaps the smallest cultural subcontinent on earth. 4 states hosting about 9 languages, home to the Carnatic classical music, dance forms like Kattakalli, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Mohinyattam, and the deadliest martial art on earth - the Kalarippayattu, breeds an ecstatic passion for lifetime.

Surely the South is only a subset of the vast cultural heritage of India. But yet, despite of the difference in its roots of origin, South Indian music is complete and as rich as any other music in the world.

With a Saraswat perspective, we have our brethren right from Karwar in Karnataka to Kochi and the rest of Kerala. Our culture blends very well with that of the regions and hence we have beauty in diversity!

Rightly so, Radio Idli recognizes this uniqueness of South India and reflects this in a special South Indian edition henceforth.

So presenting to you, the Southern Samba-r as a topping on your delicious Idli..

Neetha Shenoy

Lets begin with the blessings of God. So presenting first we have from God's own country Kerala, Neetha Shenoy from Kochi. Neetha happens to be the elder sister of Amitha who has won quite a bit of recognition from her contributions earlier this year

Ajeeb dastaan hai ...

DJ Shashank

It's the time of the DJ dazzlers now. But for a change it is not our established DJ Deepak, but a debutant DJ Shashank Pai from Mangalore. He presents a Bhangda version of "Teri to yaad sataave"

05 TERI TO (FolK T...

Deepak

Lets take a break from DJgiri. Deepak is not only a DJ but also a melodious singer. I had first listened to his singing in an orkut meet of Konkanis in Bangalore. He had sung "Yaaron Dosti" much to the amazement and delight of about an audience of 40. Deepak shares with us his voice through a song he had sung in college

Deepak - Tera Cheh...

Sunnyboy

Lastly, yours humbly, Bangalore Hi-Flier Sooraj Kamath (Sunnyboy). Aamir Khan's love for his brother expressed in an affectionate melody from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander

Rooth ke hum se ka...

I am sure you enjoyed a small musical trip of South India. I promise to come up with more stuff in the coming weeks. Thanks for your love and Support..

12th Zodiac edition!

The journey at Radio Idli gets more and more exciting as we unravel newer talent, while our regular artists continue their rhythmic submissions week after week. We have speciality of our artists and their proud parents performing together!!

This week we celebrate another step to progress with a dedicated South-India Edition coming up!! Yes Indeed.. Radio Idli will now have multiple editions to serve tastes of various regions and to help talent and our voices show from every corner of the world, not just mumbai and pune primarily! Keep watching for the southern edition

The great quantity and quality of submissions is now forcing me to keep my RJ babble short and sweet as i take the pleasure of presenting this weeks speciality from the rest of the world... but the south :-)!
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Shradha and Bharati-"akka" Nayak

Its a great pleasure to hear the beauty in a Girl's voice and the riddle behind it.. that is the beauty in her Mother's voice.. that which is inherited, cherished and passed on through generations!

Shradha and her Mom present to us the pleasure of experiencing the Beauty Divine through their devotional songs

Shradha makes our day bright with a Bhupali raag (udaya raag) song:

UthaUtha-ShradhaN....

After the daughter now its the turn of a proud mother - Bharati-akka:

ShreeRam.mp3

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Archana Kamath and Proud Papa - Dinesh-"Maam" kamath


The melodious father-daughter duo sings to our hearts fill this time yet again!!

Archana presents a song from the south - Sambar-aache Phanna ghalnu !

Araluthiru MP3 arc...

Dinesh-Maam presents yet another superb hindi song!

Ae zindagi dintose...

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Nagesh's Bhajan.

One of my favorite bhajans that i recorded sometime back for my dear bro Nikhil. Apologies to Marathi listeners, if i have messed up with the wordings. This one is in Sarang Raag

Yei ho vitthale_sa...

Here is the same song in Todi Raag:

Yei ho vitthale_To...

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Stay tuned for the Southern Special Edition!!! and Lokaabhiraam Maam returns too.

Radio Idli Reports - Swar Sadhnotsav

March 24, 2007
Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai

Great Music luminaires from our Saraswat community shined bright at the event conducted by Swar Sadhana Samiti, which was generous enough to hold it with free of cost entrance. We were also not hindered from taking pictures of the event. Please find below a humble attempt to present snippets of the event as captured by my humble digital camera. click the link:

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It was a great opportunity to photograph and hear the concert of great Indian Percussion exponents like Pt. Sadanand Naimpalli and Pt. Omkar Gulvady. It felt great to watch the concert with a proud son - Abhang Gulvady, seated along with us who later introduced us to his father and to the other great artists like Tabla Maestro Jayesh Rege. It was a great experience to hear and have a close conversation with the great artists.

We also had the pleasure of hearing the legend of Shri Jitendra Abhisheki brought alive in full brilliance by his son, Shri Shaunak Abhisheki which was a grand finale to the whole show.

DJ Deepak's Remix corner - Addition to 11th Edition!

Hello folks. My apologies to Deepak and his waiting fans for having missed the DJ Deepak's remix corner in the eleventh edition. I thought that i was done with the list of submissions he had given me in the previous editions :-).. but there was one song left, which i am glad to present right here!

DJ Deepak-Allah Ke...

1+1 = 11th Edition!!

Curiously Listening Brethern!!

Welcome to the 11th edition. Like the title says, we are here to create synergy! Our talents put together bring in much more excitement than they would if they were to play in isolated pockets. So here we are again with some great contributions, each one of them unique and special in its own way!

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Shrinidhi's Prayer - Voice of Innocence

Four year old Shrinidhi from pune, with help from cousin Archana Kamath, presents to us the 12th Chapter of the Bhagwad-Gita and a Ganapati Bhajan. The best possible start to our week with her innocent and charming voice!

12th Chapter:

Shrinidhi2.mp3

Gajamukhane Ganapatiye:

SHhrinidhi3.mp3

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Konkani Kaani by Pravin Da' Kamath

After hearing from the child.. its time to present to the child, not just the one who sang, but to the child within each one of us. Pravin Kamath-maam shares with us a story in konkani!

Kailo ani chimni (...

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Sachin Kulshekhar

Sachin presents to us a beautifully sung devotional song, offering prayers at the lotus feet of Goddess Saraswati. Radio Idli congratulates Sachin on his wonderful rendition and requests him to post more often :-)

bhava saraswathi.m...

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Prathamesh Kini

The singer in Red Jersey, an ardent football fan shoots his formula one voice through Radio Idli this time! He sings Kandhon SE milte hain KAndhe from the movie lakshya, just when we are in the stage of Uniting as a community through Radio idli and many more initiatives!

Way to go Prathamesh (Pat) Kini

kandhon se.mp3

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Savkur Returns!

Amit Savkur, after a week's break returns with his magical voice to the rescue of his waiting fans!

Is Kadar Pyaar Hai...

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Ashwin Kamath

Sings an ode to youth!

jawaniyan yeh mast...

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Sooraj "Sunnyboy" Kamath

After his dance videos and semiclassical songs, Sooraj returns with a romantic number.

Kuch tum Socho.mp3

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Radhika Hegde

Radhika presents her second submission. We thank our listeners who encouraged her last week. I am sure her submissions will continue regularly, thanks to that!

Ajeeb Dastaan - Ra...

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Nagesh Pai

My last minute entry. after posting this magnificent edition. I was encouraged to sing one of my favorite songs from the new genre. My friends like to hear it from me. Hope you all like it too!

Teri Deewani.. original by Kailash Kher

Nagesh - Teri Deew...

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So that was the menu for the week. Still Waiting for Lokaabhiraam to serve his special submission. I am as curious as each of us here to know what will he do next!!!

Till then Have a Great weekend and Stay tuned.. Stay beautiful!

Matru Devo Bhava, Pitru Devo Bhava - Parent's special

We owe a lot to our parents, our voice that we express here bears its origin to the knowledge and nurture that they have given us with all those sacrifices behind it. Its time we sit and hear their divine voice through our tribute to them - Radio Idli Parent's special.

This issue is not a one time special, but a beginning of a platform that involves all generations beginning our parents, our ownselves, and our children (if any :-) or if many).

Here begins a great bouquet of what our parents have to sing to us.
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Echo from 35 years ago - Deepak presents his father Shri Jayavanth Nayak from Bengaluru

Technology today enables us to hear the fond memories of Nayak-maam - His recording of 35 years ago!!

Note that there are two songs in the playlist below. you can choose to play it in sequence by pressing the play button or double click the song name.

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DJ Deepak we now know from where you get your music :-)
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Ashwin Kamath shares the voice of his father Shri Jayanth Kamath

A song that brings back the first Gurumantra that most of us had from our parents.. the first sweet lullaby which awakened the music in our minds while putting us to solemn slumber... Even the Lord with the responsibility of the universe seeks solace in the lullaby sung by his devotee "Jo Jo Sri Krishna", composed by Purandara Daasa and Sung here by Nayak Maam.

jo jo shri krishna...

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Archana shares with us the magic of her Father's Voice - Shri Dinesh Kamath

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My parents and Me

Shri Ramachandra Pai and Smt. Sudha Pai along with their Son Nagesh are glad to present few bhajans to you :-).

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Shri Vivekanand Halady, father of Samiir, spins divine music through his melodious harmonium playing with his soothing voice singing a bhajan in Raag Pilu.

Bhajan Vivekananda...

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Abhijit and Aparna Pai's dearest Pacchi (maternal aunt) sends us a contribution with which we sign off our first Parent's special!!

Devu Maza Vithu Savla - a classic Abhang.

apachi.mp3

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Decked Decade Decibels! - Tenth Edition

After the great media limelight(check the CNN IBN video on Radio Idli in the post click here) here we are with a double digit edition finally! Listener numbers, contributions and expectations are on the northward rise! Aren't all these signs of positive growth??

Todays edition proves just that.

Main highlight of this edition is a PARENT's SPECIAL which will be posted as a separate post after the main edition with all our regular entries. We have nostalgic recordings, capured as old as 35 years ago, still churning great energies and fond memories! Its highly generous of Deepak and his Father Shri Jayavanth Nayak to share these golden moments with us.

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Prayer by Abhijit Pai

We start the new year with a Prayer to Almighty to grant us peace and joy.

The meaning of this prayer and its deeper connotations may be found on Abhijit's blog at this link (http://answerinwind.rediffblogs.com)

Here is the prayer

vishwakalyan2.mp3

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Narayan Kamath

This is the final composition from Narayan's "Inspiration" series. Hope you all like it!

Heat of Inspiratio...

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Return Of Sanat Prabhu

A student in engineering with a great voice, Sanat returns after a lull with a great song. Sanat would be going for a professional audtion today, For which i wish him all the very best. I would invite wishes and prayers from all, so that our very own Radio Idli singer makes it BIG!!

pal - Sanat Prabhu...

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Archana Kamath

Archana Kamath sings a great "Daasara Pada" - The divine song of the Daasa's. The magic of the compositions is that its meaning hits straight to your conscience without you knowing Kannada. This has been my experience. Archana presents this song in melodious ShivRanjani Raaga.

naa donkaadare- Ar...

if you think Archana Sings well.. watch out for the parents special (coming up in a post above) where her father steals the show!!
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Sunnyboy Sooraj Kamath
and Reshma Pai from two different locations.. Bangalore and US, sing the same song.. doing a la' Jagjit and chitra!

Sunnyboy sings first!

Tujhse naraaz nahi...

Reshma sings next!

TumseNaraaz.mp3

Now thats what i call Harmony!!
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Fresh and Refreshing

This is a new section that i have created within Radio Idli weekly posts to recognize the talent of enthusiasm of new entrants. This section will appear on a week when we have new and fresh talent being submitted

This week we have Radhika Hegde from Mumbai singing a peppy number!

rads.mp3

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DJ Deepak's Remix Corner

A fabulous blend of Bulla Ki Jaana Mai Kaun with some foot-tapping rhythm.

DJ Deepak-Bullah K...

if you thought DJ's Remix was cool.. check out his father's voice recorded 35 years ago!!! Coming up soon in the parent's special!
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CNN IBN interviews Radio Idli

Friends. After the print press coverage, here is our first Television Coverage by TV Journalist Vineeta Rao of CNN IBN! (Hearty thanks To CNN IBN.. content streamed from www.ibnlive.com)

Click here in case you are not able to see the video below






Dev Bare Karo!!

Ninth edition at 9 PM primetime!

Its prime time for Radio Idli with some prime coverage in press (courtesy DNA mumbai)
Radio Idli and the Saraswat community have been quoted as the first to mark the arrival of Blog Radio concept in India! Its time to celebrate for each of us.

"On the Internet, Community Radio becomes a reality"
You can read the article here if you missed it. Or here.


I take this opportunity to thank each and every contributor to make this dream a great reality, and solicit active support from many more to take this commuity initiative further!

The speciality of today's edition is that we have THREE GENERATIONS of people performing :-)

New this week
We have the privilege of hearing parents of our active contributors and soon intend to have a "Parent's Special" programme to showcase the divine voices of our parents. To start off this endeavor we have Archana's father, Shri Dinesh Kamath rendering his youthful voice and my Parents, Shri K. Ramachandra Pai and Smt. Sudha R. Pai showcasing their bhajans recoded at home. I would request each one of you to help your parents record and upload their voices for the Parent's special.

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Inspiration divine by Narayan Kamath

This is the second out of the three composition on inspiration sent by Narayan straight from the US. Let us all applaud our multitalented contributor!

Inspirations Theme...

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Pravin "Da" Kamath shares a great narration, after his most visited Video interview which you will find in a previous posting below. He speaks about konkani language!

Konkani bhasha 1.m...

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Parent's Special

We have the pleasure of Archana Kamath's father, Shri Dinesh Kamath, rendering "tere mere sapne". He joins us in making our dreams true :-)

din tere mere sapn...

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I take the pleasure in sharing voices of my Parents, my true Guru's in music who gave me my first lessons through the "Jo Jo Sri Krishna" lullaby and many more divine compositions of Purandaradaasa and great Saints. They share their Bhajans here.

K Ramachandra Pai and Sudha R. Pai - Guru Krupe Vina

Guru kripe Veena.m...

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Smt. Sudha R. Pai sings "Nirgunachi bheti Aalo saguna sange"

Nirgunachi Bheti -...

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Atharva Pai
Generation Next in the green room!

Proud Mom and great singer Reshma Pai sends us a recording of her son yet again.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. The voice that sings the lullaby echoes the song that free's the world!

Here is your special privilege to catch an artist at his youngest :-)

atharvinmood.mp3

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Archana Kamath's Stage

After Dinesh-maam's performance, here is a proud daughter singing two of her submissions to the delight of her waiting fans who missed her for the last few weeks.

1) Aao Naa....

aao na arch 1.mp3

2)Mere Dil Ka..

mere dil ka arch 2...

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Radio Idli Premiere!
Ashwin Kamath

Popular for his singing talent and his base of Hindustani classical music, we have the pleasure of having Ashwin Kamath from Dombivili, Mumbai sharing his Bhajan recordings with us!

tanhayee.mp3

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Amit Savkur's sonic magic!

Aankhen bhi Hoti hai dil ki Zubaan!

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Video Zone

Janapriya Yakshagana is a famous group in Mumbai with the distinction of having the colourful Yakshagana ballet (similar to kathakali, and is the official dance of Karnataka)in Konkani Language. The group has blessings from all our Divine Swamiji's and has among its founders the Legend Shri Rama Nayak, the father of Udupi Restaurants of Mumbai.

Here is a video slideshow made by me in 2004 with photographs that i clicked of the Chaturmas Celebrations of H. H. Shrimadh Sudhindra Teertha Swamiji and the Yakshagana episodes of Ramayana.


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DJ Deepak's Remix corner

Deepak presents his latest works this time bringing together the guitars of Santana and the voice of Atif Alam!

DJ Deepak Feat. Cl...

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Stay tuned and Stay beautiful :-)

Lokaabhiraam Maam is dressing up for his next show and will be up in a while.

Eighth Edition - The Complete octave!

Here we are! At the beginning of the next octave of Radio Idli. Its been almost two months since we started Radio Idli and we now stand with marvellous discoveries of Talent within ourselves and our brethern.

The next higher notes await us as we have progressed and discovered each note of the octave, we now await new discoveries and new frontiers through our own voice!
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Narayan Kamath

The composer from New Jersey presents some of his own homegrown composition for our musical ears!

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Reshma's Silken Voice

Reshma Pai sends across a great classic to the delight of our ears.

aajphir.mp3

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Amita Shenoi

She returns with her second submission from Kochi, the God's Own Land

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Nothing stops her bold submissions which i am sure will continue regularly!
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Amit Savkur

flows his perennials of melody with another great contribution to keep us spellbound!

Roz Roz aankhon Ta...

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Sunny times are here! Sooraj Kamath

Sooraj "sunnyboy" sings a classical dance number in the audio clip.. followed by his actual dance video!

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Sooraj's dance video

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DJ Deepak's remix Corner

Here is my pick from Deepak's remix corner! perfect ending of this weekly with Gabbar's famous words!

DJ Deepak Feat. Li...

Dj.. kitne aadmi the?? hehe
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