Our New Website

Listeners dearest, Kindly note our new website

its

http://www.Radioidli.net/

Kindly logon to the above site and get the latest Saraswat Arts and Talents on your desktop on our improved site

Karkala Teru (Chariot festival) - 2008

Watch a beautiful photo album walkthrough of the Karkala Chariot festival (teru) by Swaroopa Shenoy

at

http://www.radioidli.net/2008/05/karkala-teru-chariot-festival-2008/

Radio Idli version 2.0 - Rebirth!

Radio Idli has now moved to its new avataar...

do check

http://www.radioidli.net/

Right now and leave your inaugural comments there!

We hope you like the new features and design there

Homage to Radio Idli

In about two hours time.. we pay our homage to this website that served our community in its own little beautiful way... May god grant us all peace and harmony.

The reasons as to why this is happening and why at this time, and many more questions will be answered in the due course...

Till then please do not trust any rumours and stay tuned atleast till a little after midnight for the next update.

Team Radio Idli

Support GSB sports as you enjoy IPL match

The Indian Premier League 20-20 matches have changed the face of cricket forever. More speed... more aggression... more controversies...and... sold out tickets!

Coming back to our Samaaj, the grass is much greener with cricketers like Ravi Gadiyar and the GSB Sabha, Mumbai (Matunga Kreeda Mandir) managing cricket coaching to our youngsters every vacation since a very long time. (we will cover more about this soon.. for details of the next camp you may write to feedback@radioidli.net). We hope to see the next round of Tendulkars and Dhonis rolled out of our own GSB banners!

The IPL tickets are all sold out. However, If you are a cricket fan and wish to watch the match with one more close friend of yours.. Ravi-anna has for us.. TWO TICKETS ONLY ... each for the following matches:

Venue for all matches: DY Patil stadium Nerul, Navi Mumbai

Match Schedule:

4th may @ 8 pm Mumbai v/s Delhi

7th may @ 8 pm Mumbai v/s Rajasthan

14th may @ 8 pm Mumbai v/s Chennai

16th may @ 8 pm Mumbai v/s Kolkatta

The tickets are priced at Rs. 500/- each. The proceeds of this would go to G S B Sports Club Donors account. You would be issued a receipt for the same.


Only two unbooked tickets in the whole stadium...Served first come first! Hurry..

You may write back to feedback@radioidli.net.. Or call me on (0)9322251829

Two Great Kamath's - K. V. Kamath and Kiran Kamath.

Friends, in this issue we continue to bring the coverage of Shri K. V. Kamathmaam's felicitation programme, as its video gets edited and uploaded.

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Videos of K. V. Kamathmaam's felicitation programme

The playlist below carries two videos:

1) Swagat geet by Shri Kiran Kamath (its got three Raagas.. Vrindavani Sarang, Shuddha Sarang and Malhar)
(click here if you are not able to see the video above)




2)A one minute message to our youngsters by Shri K. V. Kamath .. an exclusive for Radio Idli. (Click here if you are unable to see the video)



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GSB Sabha Mumbai, Matunga, celebrated their New Hindu year get together yesterday
Radio Idli was exclusively invited here with their kind courtesy extended.
The talent show with some really talented youngster's giving a variety performance, and the proceedings of the event would be soon posted.. Do watch out..

Stay tuned.. stay beautiful forever :-)

Padma Bhushan Shri K. V. Kamath Felicitated by Shrimad Sudhindra Teertha Swamiji

April 3, 2008 Matunga, Mumbai

Shared in this post are Two photograph albums - Of the event, and some memorable behind-the-scenes moments :-)

Photographs of the event:

Click Here for a fullscreen slide show


The behind the scenes moment are a bit guarded to view it you need to click here

Brief Report:

Gawd Saraswat bandhavas from all over Mumbai gathered at the "Krida Mandir" grounds, The same place where the famous GSB Seva Mandal Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations are held. Our community members came together to honour Shri K. V. Kamath, who was recently confered the Padma Bhushan by the Indian Government. The occassion was starstudded with Dignitaries like Mr. Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon, Mr. D. N. Chaturvedi, one of the Key people in the making of the
Reliance group, Shri M. V. Nair, CMD of Union Bank.

Musical Start:
The event began with a beautiful Swagat Geet sung by Shri Kiran Kamath. The gifted composer of the song, Shri Santosh (Madhav) Kudva, who humbly maintains the credit of the composition to the Lord, accompanied on the Tabla.

Speakers:
Some of the key speakers of the event were achievers and seniors from our samaaj, Shri G. Arvind Rao, Chairman of the Evergreen Group of companies; Shri M. V. Kini, Senior and accomplished Legal Professional; and
Shri K. Ramachandra Kamath, Executive Director of Bank Of India, who also narrated the honouring Citation to Shri K V. Kamath.

KamathMaam's Speech:(video/ audio would be posted soon after editing and upload)
KamathMaam stressed on the need for continuous thirst for knowledge and learning in our lives, which empowers each of us to contribute better to the world. Having said this about learning, he also mentioned that in today's dynamic scenario, professionals and businessmen turn obsolete as the year ends. Further, it is essential for them to unlearn few things and update them with new knowledge that will keep them afloat in the coming year.

KamathMaam's speech reflected the importance of teamwork when he dedicated all his achievements back to his team at ICICI.

Reflecting those words of team work back to our small project here - Radio Idli. As readers, as
performers, as bloggers we are a part of an active online Samaaj which is caring enough to share its celebrations and
content across with brethern across the world. I would like to take this opportunity to applaud the entire team which includes You -- our listener :-)

Shrimad Sudhindra Teertha Swamiji gave a divine Ashirwachan blessing Kamathmaam and the samaaj. I would be sharing the video of the same soon.

Happy Ugadi, Happy Gudi Padwa and a joyfilled Samvatsara ahead to all of you!

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Wish you all a very Happy Yugadi and a Prosperous New Samvatsara. Radio Idli wishes its active members Sooraj Kamath and Ashwin Kini a very Joyous Engaged Life and look forward to wishing them a very happy Married life soon!
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Two Great GSBs - Whistling Melody and Whistle-blowing Journalism

Part 1>> Whistleblowing 1 - Whistling Melodies - Rajesh Koppikar

Radio idli takes the pleasure of inviting into its family, Shri Rajesh Koppikar, an artist with a unique gift. His video channel on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/chirchiri) has 245 songs and is lined up with farmaish's (song requests)!

Rajesh will be most glad to have your Farmaish too!! So do write or comment back.

Hear his songs below.. if you have a request kindly leave behind a comment here. You may also write to feedback@radioidli.net.

Click here If you are unable to see the videos below



Rajesh's Profile:

Rajesh Koppikar is an Atlanta resident & lives in Alpharetta with his wife, Jayashree. They've been here since June 2000. Rajesh works for Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. as Principal Project Manager. He's been with Siemens for more than 20 years and has worked in India, Germany & USA in various positions. Rajesh has an unusual hobby and that is "whistling". He started whistling since his childhood days and has mastered the art step by step. Whistling Hindi film songs is his forte but has whistled various Marathi & English songs too. Since March 2007, Rajesh found YouTube to be a great medium for sharing his whistling videos with rest of the world and has received an overwhelming response. Over the past one year, he has uploaded over 260 videos that have been viewed over 100,000 times worldwide. Going by the comments & star ratings that viewers have given to his videos, he seems to be doing a very good job of popularizing whistling as a performing art form.

Rajesh is also the current President of Konkani Association of Georgia (KAOG - www.kaoga.org) and has produced, directed and acted in Konkani plays staged in Atlanta. One of the three-act plays "Baayil Jaayi Baayil" was also staged in Hamilton, Canada during the 2006 Konkani Sammelan and was a big hit.

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Part 2>> Whistleblowing 2 - Pristine Journalism - Mahesh Prabhu
http://indiamahesh.wordpress.com/ (blog of Mahesh's editorials and writings)

From the US we now fly back to our hometown, Where we have Mahesh Prabhu joining the Radio Idli family as a great support. Mahesh, unlike most youngsters stayed away from the flare of flying abroad. After holding responsible positions in MNCs, Mahesh finally decided to pursue his passion as a career - Writing. He works as the Editor-in-chief of a Monthly Magazine - Aseema - Journal of National Resurgence. Noted journalists of varied opinions like Mr. M J Akbar, Shri MV Kamath and Mr. Tarun Vijay (editor of RSS publication - Panchajanya) find themselves comfortable voicing it together in this publication.

Whistleblowing?.. Yes but not always pleasing melodies, but the awakening drumbeats....
Mahesh has been instrumental in reporting about the insult to great legends like Shri M. V. Kamath by our authorities. He was the first one to write candidly about the ouster of M. J. Akbar as the editor of Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age owing to pressures from the high command of our country. While other media was busy covering glamour, sensation and paid for content, Its only Journalists of the likes of Mahesh who form the surviving hope of credible journalism in our country.

Must Reads of Mahesh -
1) Mahesh's report on Shri M V Kamath - "Is this the way to treat a legend?".
2) Is the decline of the Fourth Estate here and happening?


Please click on the "Older Posts " button to see some great Saraswat content from the past.

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Coming up soon... Balachandra Casts a spell through Radio Idli's first concert in Mumbai

Watch the Photographs right here (click)

Recordings will follow soon!

Stay Tuned and Stay Forever Beautiful!, Nagesh@radioidli.net
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Bantwal Teru - Courtesy Dr. Kiran Baliga

Dr. Kiran Baliga provides all of us a pilgrimage to Bantwal Teru (chariot festival). This comes closely after the coverage of Mangalore teru by Kudpi Rajanikanth Shenoy, Nithin Rao and Prakash Kamath.

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" As per reliable sources, Budding Star Balachandra Prabhu has just left Hubli for his show in Mumbai.. He would be performing live on the 21st of March, and everybody's cordially invited.
For details check: http://amgelobala.googlepages.com/

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Dr. Baliga shares with us some video clips viewable in the widget below.. and a photograph slideshow.



Click here for the album

Click here for the full screen slideshow

Shivraatri - Talents awakened

" हांव तुम्गेले सर्वान्गेले काति्तरी

आणी देवू वेंकटरमणा काति्तरी मुम्बैन्तु

भजनेच्यो कार्यक्रमु कोरुका येत्तरी आस्स।

तुम्मी सर्वानायी अय्कोच्याक खंडित येव्का।"




Want to know more about my programme?? keep watching this space. Still very curious?? write to feedback@radioidli.net

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GSB Sabha Mumbai Celebrates 5 years of Satsang
- a visual report

Chief Guest - Shri Govind Ramadas, a great exponent and propagator of the Gita.



The GSB Sabha of Mumbai, celebrated its fifth year of satsang. The sessions are held every month on the first Saturday, where one particular section of the Holy Gita is chanted and discussed. Shri N. G. Pai-maam convenes the sessions which give every participant a fair chance to narrate his views on the Song Divine (Bhagwad Gita).

The 5th year celebrations was marked by the presence of Chief Guest - Shri Govind Ramadas from Mangalore, a great exponent of the Gita. A well established lawyer few years back, the story of his life closely resembles the story of Robin Sharma's mystic hero of "The Monk who sold his Ferrari". His doors are always open for anyone who seeks knowledge of the Gita. He is based in Mangalore.

The session was also a surprise for me to see Uday Mallya who i knew otherwise through the internet. It was good to know that he is an excellent orator and an event organizer!. I have tried my best to cover snippets from the event. I thank GSB sabha Mumbai for their kind cooperation and support.

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Shiv Bhajan by Yours Truly

Two months back i started learning music yet again after a gap of 9 years, from the same Guru - Shri Kiran Kamath. Today during our class, he asked me to sing one of the songs he has himself sung in his album - Sangeet Kiran. A song which was perfect for the mood of Shivratri. I confess to have made mistakes in this song.. most notably in the pronunciation of the notes in one of the last alaaps... do forgive me for the same. (move your mouse above the image below and click play)




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Sanat Prabhu perfoms!

We cant get enough of our star Sanat Prabhu, who sings about the magic of someone's eyes... is Deepika going to be the next artist to be interviewed on Kaapi with Sanat?? Only our star can answer that :-)

Ajab si.mp3

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New Artist - Swarna Nayak

I am glad to present my sister dearest Swarna Nayak, who is currently in australia
she sent me this recording sometime back and after a little bit of convincing she was kind enough to have this published... let us all welcome her!(move your mouse above the image below and click play)




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We have received quite a few videos, Thanks to Rameshmaam of Middle East and Sudeep from Bangalore. Will take some more time to edit them and have it uploaded to the delight of our listeners...

Make sure you dont miss the artist who gave a teaser to you on the top.... any idea of who he is???? (Hint... he has performed on Radio Idli earlier).. click on the "comments" link below and do leave us yuor words or write to our new email id....

Feedback@radioidli.net

Send us your songs/ videos/ photographs/ reports at content@radioidli.net

Stay tuned and Stay ever beautiful.... Satyam Shivam Sundaram!

Regards, nagesh pai

Kodial Theru 2008 : A report by Rajanikanth Shenoy, Kudpi

Kodial Theru 2008

Report : Rajanikanth Shenoy, Kudpi
Video courtesy : Nithin Rao, Kumblekar and Prakash Kamath, Kanthavar
Mangalore, Feb 18, 2008

The famous 'Mangalore Car Festival' or 'Kodial Theru" was celebrated with gaiety and devotion on February 13, 2008.

Ratharohan or ascending the chariot was held at 6.00p.m., and the Grand Chariot was drawn little after mid night.







Idols of Lord Venkateshwara(Vishnu) and Goddess Padmavathi(Lakshmi) ascended the 'Brahma Ratha' or 'Big Theru' at Godhooli Lagnam in the evening at Temple Square in front of the Venkatramana Temple in Car Street.

Hundreds and thousands of devotees gathered at the temple square to hail this great event which is celebrated every year as the most auspicious day of the six day long festival.

This 'Ratharohana' signifies the marriage of Lord Venkatramana and Goddess Padmavathi considered being the holiest of the gods worshipped by the G.S.B Community in Mangalore. People stand patiently in queue to offer fruits and flowers to the deities at the theru. By midnight this 'Brahma Ratha' was pulled by devotees hailing the two deities with greetings.
This is indeed the 'Big Teru', popularly known as Kodial Theru'!

Including the Dhwajarohana Day on the 9th, five days of poojas and feast as prasadam for the devotees are offered. Thousands of people sit for three to four rounds to eat the delicious feast with 'Daali Thove' being the main attraction! Hundreds of volunteers serve these people with unusual energetic pace, cracking jokes as they serve. Even match making for young girls and boys take place silently during the festival.

Women and girls clad in lovely sarees or dresses, wearing beautiful gold ornaments and exotic flowers adorning their hair sitting on the steps of shops along Car Street are the main attraction for handsome guys with smart looks and Star appeal!

Food stalls around Temple Square and along Car Street sold Charmuri, Ice Cream, Cool Drinks and variety of Podis to the hungry and thirsty spectators! Taj Mahal Café in Car Street has been a significant land mark, serving hot snacks and addictive coffee almost round the clock during Theru!

Apart from evening feast, 'Conji Feast' or 'Pejje Jevan' is served in the mornings to all the people who normally come from different villages and towns surrounding Mangalore for the Festival. A variety of upkaries, chutnies, pickles, happolu, vodi and fried buttermilk soaked chillies are usually served with piping hot conji on plantain leaf.

The festival ended with Okuli or festival colours on Feb 14 when the deity is carried in a pallakki round the city while devotees danced in the streets, spraying coloured water on one another. The deity was bathed in Tank colony before taking back to resting place.

Puttur Pandurang Nayak - Live in concert, Abu Dhabi

Video Courtesy : Vitthaldas Kamath



Directions of use : Click the play/pause button. The video may play slowly or break the first time. The second time you replay, it will play smoothly. click the arrow buttons on the sides of the video to scroll to the next/ previous video.

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We are deeply blessed to have the consent and content from Shri Puttur Pandurang Nayak-Maam, one of the pioneers of Konkani Bhajans. Shri Vitthaldas Kamath and Shri Ramesh Pai of the Abu Dhabi Amchigele Samaaj, have taken the efforts to record, document and share with us excerpts from a lovely Bhajan Sandhya event at Abu Dhabi. I take the pleasure of thanking them and welcoming them as a part of the Radio Idli community. I would request them to support us throughout to keep us in touch with our brethern in UAE.

His compositions have been a great guide to music lovers and devotional singers alike in our Samaaj. Simplicity is indeed a magnificent characteristic that shines forth in Nayak-maam and his Music.

The young and humble team of Radio Idli bows to this and takes immense joy in sharing his performance with the Samaaj, online.

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A note about the event by Shri Ramesh Pai:

Abu Dhabi Amchigeles were fortunate to attend a Bhajan Sandhya by Sri. PutrturPanduranga Nayak & party on 2008 January 12th (Saturday). The event was heldin the evening at Sri. Prashant Shenoy's residence. 90 minutes' time was packed with good number of devotional songs in Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Marathi & Hindi.

At the end, Sri.S.M.Rao honoured Sri.Nayak, the vocalist, as well as Sri.VishwanathShenoy, who played on Harmonium. The event also celebrated the successful conductof Akhand Bhajan in Dubai the previous day. Slot for ADAS was successfully utilised withnice bhajans well presented under the leadership of Sri.Srinivas Kini, the founder memberof ADAS Bhajan Mandali. Sri.S.M.Rao also honoured Srinivas Kini for his dedicated servicesand consistent commitment for the cause during the occasion.

Video clips of a few bhajans sung by Sri.Puttur Panduranga Nayak have been uploaded in thefollowing web link : http://www.youtube.com/user/shubhavkamath Sri.Vittaldas Kamath has been kkind enough to document the felicitation part of the event too. Now it is possible to view and re-view the event at your fingertips. Thanks to ADAS Core committee for organising the event which was enjoyed by one and all wholeheartedly.

Shri Ramesh Pai

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There is more content expected from our Middle East brethern, thanks to support from all of you, who share faith in the initiative. If you are interested in sourcing Saraswat content in terms of saraswat event coverage in audio and video, songs/ talent show videos of your friends and family members, please feel free to write to us at radioidli@gmail.com.

We will be glad to assist you.

Stay tuned... Stay beautiful :-)

nagesh

Addition to the Anniversary Celebrations!

Our star singer Archana Kamath and her father Shri Dinesh Kamath have always been a strong support through their active participation throughout the first year of Radio Idli. I am pleased to post here one song each from them which they specially recorded for wishing Radio Idli a happy birthday!

1) Shri Dinesh Kamath

Dinesh-maam sings to us a Birthday wish to which i would want all of us to say .... amen :-)

Baar baar yeh din...

baar bar din.mp3

2) Archana Kamath

The star of Voice of Mumbai (Hindustan Times), Khelo Gao Jeeto (DD national), many such shows and of course - Radio Idli, performs this special song just for us..

barso re arch.mp3

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The next big year awaits your talent.. Talents which you may have performed and won, or even Talents which you have yet to showcase to the waiting Saraswat world..

Mail radioidli@gmail.com to know more about how you can share your talents with the Saraswat World and network with Talented Saraswat Artists worldwide!!

Join us on the journey.

Stay Tuned.. Stay Ever Forever Beautiful :-)
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One year of S(t)reaming Saraswat Talents!

Listeners dearest!

Its been one year since we started the Radio Idli initiatives. Sailing through its own ups and downs, we seem to have fared satisfactorily in making the community across the world aware of the rich talents we have within us!

The journey gets more interesting every moment, and here we are back with the stars of Radio Idli!

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1) Sanat Prabhu

After brewing so much of Kaapi for us and "interviewing" the stars, Sanat is back to one more thing he is too good with --- Karaoke Singing!

He shares with us a song from the movie jab we met. I am sure Kareena would love to turn Kareena Prabhu after hearing this!..

Naa hai yeh ... (j...

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2) Mora sainyan - Bhavya Prabhu

Exactly a year after Amit Savkur made his debut on our site with the same song, Bhavya features an unplugged version of the same song. Thanks to Sooraj Kamath, our southern scout :-) for bringing this song to us.

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3) DJ Deepak Nayak

DJ Deepak steps aside from his turntables and sings unplugged a soothing Ghazal. Its a great pleasure to see our star in video for the first time!



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Coming up soon: Some great content from our Saraswat Brethern in the Middle East!

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In our second year we will continue our endeavor to host the best talents from our community. Kindly shower your talents, blessings and wishes on us to make this journey pleasurable as ever!

Stay Tuned and Stay Ever Beautiful!

Team Radio Idli and nagesh.

Akshay Kumar on hot seat - Kaapi with Sanat

After some hard talk with "Shahrukh", "Aamir Khan", "Sanju Baba" etc (please note the quotes mark in each of the star names) he is now all set to unveil the secrets of "Akshay Kumar" who is hot and happening these days.


In his own creative way and through his original concept, Sanat Interviews "Akshay Kumar"

Enjoy!

Warning: The volume of the recordings may fluctuate. you may keep your volume controls handy. i am trying to fix this meanwhile kindly bear with us!

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Shri Mangesh - Shantadurga Darshan - Courtesy Kumar Sanjeev

Saraswat ancestral heritage and our cultural diversity across the west coast is evident from the uniqueness of our Kuladevasthaans (family temples) located around Gomaantak (Goa).

Shri Mangesh and Shri Shantadurga and many of our family deities have been our guardian Deities throughout ages of colonialism and now - globalization :-). They have been instrumental in holding our families firmly to our roots.

"Kumar" Sanjeev (Ghotgalkar) gives us the wonderful Darshan of these deities along with melodious bhajans sung by prominent singers like Sachin Pilgaonkar (known better for his acting in Hindi and Marathi cinema/stage). An engineer by profession, Sanjeev has undertaken many projects in music dedicated to various Shrines.

In the present Album - "Aalo Mi Tujhya Bhetila", Sanjeev aims at serving the GSB community with an invaluable Darshan of Shri Mangesh Shantadurga. Two songs videos from the album are shared in this post.
Please find the videos below (For new users - please click the play button in the player that appears below)


1) Mangesha Aalo Mi Tuzha Bhetila



2) Shri Shantadurga - Aai







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"Aalo Mi tula Bhetila" - complete Album VCD available by courier

Price - Rs. 45 per CD + courier charges additional
Special Bulk discount - Rs. 22 per CD (minimum 10 cds) + courier charges

For more details

Visit : http://www.shreeshantadurga.com/vcd.asp

Contact: gsanjeev1@yahoo.co.in, or radioidli@gmail.com
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Disclaimer - Radio Idli and its volunteers take pleasure in serving community talent , art and artists on a voluntary basis. The team does not have any commercial interests whatsoever. We will be glad to help any saraswat member popularize any artistic contributions, like the album above. The decision to post will be at the discretion of the Radio Idli team based on relevant qualitative parameters.
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