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/

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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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.

*Flash news Announcement*********************************************************

" 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

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.

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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NaKSAtra 2007 - Annual cultural extravaganza

I have been postponing the uploading of these links for a long time now. My apologies are due on this front. This year as usual the Kanara Saraswat Association organised its event and there was a tremendous response. This is the same stage where great artistes like Pt.Ravishankar have done their earlier performances and the association has a reputation of being patrons of indian music.

We are posting some of the best performances here on radio idli.

Sunil Kamath won the first prize for his rendition of jiya dhadak Dhadak in the light music category which is an open event without any restrictions on age groups.

Sunil Kamath has in fact been one of the regular contributors to our radio idli blog and his talent has been well appreciated.

Mumbai Ganapati Coverage

Vakratunda Mahakaaya Kotisurya Samaprabha. Nirvighnam Kurumedeva Sarvakaryeshu Sarvada.

Dear friends, Radio Idli and its volunteers take the pleasure of sharing with you snippets of Ganapati celebrations in the GSB Mandals and households of Mumbai. Over the next five days, i will be adding links of video clips taken by us.

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NOTE: over the next few days of the festival we will be updating this space with
more photos and videos. Do feel free to contribute your clicks too!!

Apart from the videos below, we also have a great collection of photographs on
Photo Idli (Click here for the photograph slide shows page). Continue scrolling down for the videos.
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GSB Seva Mandal, Matunga, Mumbai

Videos by nagesh and Pravin "da" Kamath

1) The Arti



2)MooduGanapati Seva



3)The santharpana.. the feast that we await

The leaves being laid for the feast


The food being served


Devotees proceeding to wash their hands after the feast





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GSB Wadala Ganapati - Dwarakanath Bhavan Hall
Our dearest Pravin "Da" Kamath, brings to us some amazing moments of the Wadala Ganapati. The videos show the dexterity of the volunteers in managing ranga pooja and playing the percussions to the Ganesh Arati.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEOS
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FOR STILL PHOTOGRAPH SLIDESHOWS PLEASE Check PHOTO IDLI HERE
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Snippets of Home celebrations

1) Arati of Ancestral Ganpati of Abhijit Pai


Abhijit has just posted his current year celebrations video.. Do not miss these video clips of 114th celebration of Marurkar Pai's celebrations


2)Please find in the link below, video snippets of the Ganesh celebrations at my home. The Ganapati at my home was in its 93rd year, and is a part of the Kulyadikar Pai tradition. About 150+ people from around the world saw the event live on webcam. The recordings with limited quality, are from the same.

Click here for the video snippets

Watch this space as we try and get you sights of more places, like the most Awaited GSB seva mandal.

Ganapati Bappa Moriya!

Video Special - 3 Magnificent Arti's

Contributed by: Harish Shanbhag, Nikhil Pai and Nagesh Pai.

As GSB's we have been ardent followers of the religious traditions carried forth by our ancestors. Our religious festivals have given us the spiritual strength and also strong social bonding.

We are proud to share three wonderful videos as a part of our journey to the religious side of the GSB world.


ARTI # 1 Shrimad Sudhindra Teertha Swamiji performing an Arti to their deity, at a function in Vashi, New bombay.

Please click the following link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2679238695095950159&hl=en


ARTI # 2 Arti of our loving Lord Ganesh at Wadala Mutth Celebrations, Mumbai. (courtesy Harish Shanbhag)
Please click the following link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yB0YE6B_AI


Arti # 3 Arti of Shri Ram at the Shri Rama Mandir, Wadala

The beautiful Rama Temple at Wadala Mutth is a source of Divinity for most mumbai GSBs. Harish and Nikhil have given us the pleasure of the video in the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWbF4XCgsqQ


May God Bless us All!!