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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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!

New look and Live webcast of my home Ganesh

Hello friends,

On the auspicious occassion of Ganesh Chaturthi, i take the pleasure of launching the new look of Radio Idli. The new logo began with efforts from Nithin Rao, our in house graphic expert. The background of the leaf and the other iterations came along with our team's collectively discussion.

Do leave your comments for the same and ---->


Please check the live webcast of my home Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations today right here:

Http://nagpai.wordpress.com/

Good Luck Archana!!!

Our song-princess Archana Kamath is on her way to becoming the Voice of Mumbai. She has entered the finals of the competition organized by The Hindustan Times. Her winning chances and those of her competitors are weighed by the number of SMS votes each of them get.

Click here for the whole page on Hindustan times

I would request all the fans and listeners of Radio idli to vote for her!!!

To vote for Archana, type VOTE H (in caps) and send to 54242

Let us all pray that she wins this contest and makes the community proud!!

Feel free to leave wishes for her in the comments of the blog.

PS: she has recorded two special songs for us.. will be coming up soon in the forthcoming editions.

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Radio Idli and Photo Idli are sites meant for Saraswats to display their talents to the community audience. Would you like your talent to be showcased on Radio idli??

Feel free to mail us your MP3 recordings, or link to your videos on Youtube or googlevideos at radioidli@gmail.com

In case you need help in doing that do mail us too!!

Stay tuned .. stay beautiful!
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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.