Shivraatri - Talents awakened

" हांव तुम्गेले सर्वान्गेले काति्तरी

आणी देवू वेंकटरमणा काति्तरी मुम्बैन्तु

भजनेच्यो कार्यक्रमु कोरुका येत्तरी आस्स।

तुम्मी सर्वानायी अय्कोच्याक खंडित येव्का।"




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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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