As a fitting finale to this, Ananya now presents ‘Hadu Hakki Habba’, a festival that aspires to encourage an exciting and fun-filled approach to the learning and appreciation of Carnatic music among children through activities such as essay, collage, quiz, games, presentations, group events and interactions with senior musicians, all based on the theme of Carnatic music.

All the episodes of Hadu Hakki that were aired on AIR will be released as a set of ten CDs at the festival.

Terms and Conditions

● Participation is open to children studying from standard 5th to standard 10th.

● Participants are expected to have, at a minimum, knowledge of the concepts covered as part of the syllabus of the Junior Examination in Carnatic Music conducted by the Government of Karnataka.

● Application forms may be obtained at the Ananya Sangraha, 94/1, West Park Road, 16th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore 560 055, from designated Ananya representatives or by sending a mail to haduhakki@gmail.com.

● Last date for receipt of the application is 10th November, 2008. These could be sent by post/courier/in person to the Ananya Sangraha or to the email address mentioned above.

● Selected candidates will be informed by email/post. They have to pay a registration fee of Rs. 50/- by Monday, the 15th of November 2008. The fee can be sent by post/courier to Ananya Sangraha in the form of DD/Cheque payable to Ananya or paid in person in the form of cash at the Ananya Sangraha.

● Schedule of the Hadu Hakki Habba is as follows:

An Essay and a Collage competition will be conducted on Sunday, the 23rd of November 2008 at Ananya, 91/2, 4th Main Road, Malleswaram, Bangalore 560 003 between 10.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

The main festival comprising various events such as quiz, interaction with musicians etc. will be conducted on Saturday, the 29th of November 2008 from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. and on Sunday, the 30th of November 2008 from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. at Seva Sadana, 14th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore.

● Rules for the Essay Competition:

The essay can be written in English or Kannada

The topic for the essay is ‘Carnatic Music and I’ in English and ‘Nanu Mattu Karnataka Sangita’ in Kannada.

The Essay competition participants are expected to report at the venue at 10.00 a.m. The competition will start at 10.30 a.m. and will be for one hour duration.

A4-size sheets will be provided to the participants to write the essays. The participants are expected to get their own writing materials including writing board, pencils/pens, erasers etc.

● Rules for the Collage Competition:

The theme for the collage will be based on Carnatic Music and will be intimated to the participants on the spot.

The Collage competition participants are expected to report at the venue at 11.00 a.m. The competition will start at 11.30 a.m. The total time provided for this will be two hours.

Chart paper will be provided to the participants to create the collage The participants are expected to get all other materials such as pencils/pens, sketch pens, colour paper, glue, scissors, sticking tape, magazines/newspapers etc.

● Light snacks will be provided on the 23th of November 2008 and the 29th of November 2008. Lunch will be provided on the 30th of November 2008.

● Participants shall be given two coupons each for lunch and snacks – one for the participant and one for an accompanying adult. Additional food coupons may be bought at the venue.

● Information on Hadu Hakki Habba is also available on www.ananyahaduhakki@blogspot.com.

● For any clarification, you could also contact 9845287173 / 9980959759

Still, having even one part looking so pretty was good…some of it was by neighbouring software companies, who are doing their bit for the environment.

But yesterday, I was not happy to see this on the lamp-posts in the sector:

I thought, initially, that they must be solar charging panels, and went up to two men who were soldering it in place, what it was. “Speakers”, was the laconic reply.

Now I am as fond of music as anyone else; but the idea of some devotional music or Radio Mirchi being played full-blast in the dawn of what should be a quiet morning does get my goat. There are, after all, plenty of walkers who listen to music on their iPods (or old-fashioned Walkmans!)…what is the need to bathe the entire park in waves of sound, early in the morning?

Quite a lot of money seems to have been spent to get these speakers fixed to the light stands…and I cannot help wondering at the cost, and whether the initiative will be worth it….

All these magazines are not current affairs magazines. So one is not likely to find our politicians on the cover page of any of these magazines unless they have something to do with a story on lifestyle, personal style, gadgets, culture or other such related light stuff.

My favorite among all these city specific magazines is Simply Bangalore. The quality of their content is fabulous & is truly a light read. Be it updates on the new entrants in Bangalore, the niche areas to shop/buy or some of the things people are doing in Bangalore. It is truly a wonderful compilation. There seems to ooze a certain culture out of Simply Bangalore. Bengaluru Pages out with its second edition recently is good but too early to judge its content. The one issue I happened to lay my hands on didn’t seem to have anything that is not already there say in Bangalore Times, the metro areas only supplement of Times of India. 080 is glossy & doesn’t restrict its content to Bangalore. There are a lot of general things in it as well.

With NDTV launching a city specific TV channel for Delhi called metronation, it is about time that Bangalore got one as well. And to me going on the basis of the content of NDTV Good Times (being in Bangalore have no knowledge of how Metronation is) feel they are the best bet to start something about Bangalore. Also in order would be a city specific radio station that is beyond songs. Some nice discussions on the city, its problems, profiling prominent people would be nicely received here.

I was driving down Cunningham Road last week and suddenly saw a large hoarding with a huge 3D model of a laptop. I hit the brakes and heard a squeal of tyres behind me. Oops ! Sorry ! Got to check this out.

I had heard on Radio Indigo about promotions for Lenovo’s new laptop and here it was : larger than life. Lenovo 3000 Y 410 – the laptop with an Audio DJ feature.

There was a staircase near the hoarding and I clambered up to discover that Radio Indigo had actually set up a live feed studio, 20 feet high – right behind the monitor of the 3D laptop. From a synergy point of view, two big names in technology and music, got together to give Bangalore a whole new dimension. An idea that pushed the magic of FM to new heights.

As an advertising professional, I have tracked “outdoor” for years, from a creative point of view. We’ve had cutouts, flip-arounds, unusual sizes, neon signs … but this was an absolute first in terms of going beyond the brief. Just the 3D model of the laptop was unique in itself, but the live feed combined with the promotions was the “real big idea”.

The event had RJs Malavika, Meghana, Ayesha and Rohit Barker hosting their shows live, from 7 am to 8 pm for one whole week. The team also got one-to-one with the people who stopped by for responses, reactions, feedback and promo participation.

Other highlights at this promotion were games for visitors, lots of Lenovo goodies and the grand prize of a Lenovo Audio DJ laptop. This was eventually won by Neha Chaudhary, a 24-year-old fashion accessory designer from Bangalore.

The studio was located behind behind that little window on the monitor

Daytrippin with RJ Meghana

RJ Malavika (left) with Neha Chaudhary (winner of the Lenovo Audio DJ laptop)

Voices from down under – at ground level

Fever 104 FM is a part of Hindustan Times.

More details on there website.

List of FM’s @ Bengalooru are here

Go any where in the city your ears will listen to one or other FM, Even in Buses,Cabs,Cars are also addicted to FM’s , Bengalooru is slowly becoming a Music loving city Or it could be even just to Time-Pass in the hectic traffics over here, Thanks for Private FM’s.

It is a neck to neck competition between FM radios over here, Every FM station is coming up with lots of promotion activity like Call & Win, SMS & Win, Guess & Win etc… What ever at the end of the day Customer is KING!!!

Below are the FM details of Bengalooru.
91.1 – Radio City
91.9 – Radio Indigo
92.7 – Big 92.7 FM
93.5 – S FM (SUN Network’s)
94.3 – Radio One
98.3 – Radio Mirchi
101.3 – AIR FM Rainbow
107.6 – Gyan Vani

BTW let me know which is your favorite FM station?

I have been listening to it since yesterday and am impressed with the music they have been playing so far. The list of RJs they have are all completely familiar names to the city, which includes Sihi Kahi Chandru, Shalini of pacho Sreemathi fame, Sindhu – the girl from the movie Nenapirali, Kiran Sreedhar, etc. Upendra is going to host a show by himself. But I am looking forward to listening to the shows from Mimicry Dayanand who can get really funny.

I have to say again that I am mighty impressed with the music they have been playing so far, and if they manage to keep it up, they have me hooked!

Just tune your radios to 92.7 & simply Enjoy Maadi!, More details here

Shreyas Srinivasan and Gaurav Vaz joined Kaustubh in 2005 and formed the nucleus of Infinity Radio.

Today, RadioVeRVe, as it is now called, is all set to ride this wave and change the face of entertainment in India. Drawing on the experience of the many years of intimate involvement with the music scene, the technology advantage and the limitless possibility of the world wide web, RadioVeRVe aims to be at the forefront of the “Indian Independent Music Revolution”.

Shreyas Srinivasan talks about Radio Verve and the exciting plans they have for the future.

1) Since RadioVeRVe an independent venture, do you folks plan to make a business model in the future?

Yes, all of us believe it’s necessary for anything to be commercially viable to sustain itself over a long period of time. We are working on a lot of things which will help us build a business model around RadioVeRVe. We are still nascent, the business model will be built with time.

2) Do you have a lot of volunteers working on the project who do work in their free time? How do you handle the time contraints?

Lot is an overstatement. Practically Gaurav, Kaustubh and Atul and I do majority of the work. Having said that, we do have a lot of people pitching in and helping out in specific issues. We are building a vibrant community which is helping us out but numbers aren’t big simply because at this time we don’t have a lot of tasks to involve too many
volunteers.

Radio VeRVe members from l to r: Kaustubh, Shreyas and Gaurav

3) If a band wants to showcase their work through Radio Verve, what would they have to do?

Just send us the music, either as a CD or as an mp3. We will listen to it and if it suits our requirements we will play it. Our requirements are that the music should be independent and that it should be of decent quality (recording wise). We are very particular about music being independent.

4) What kind of a response have you received so far?

Simply unbelievable, the number of people tuning and writing good things about us has been quite phenomenal. The mainstream media has helped us a lot too, by writing about us and thus helping us reach large number of people. In fact, in the last one month we have been featured in just about every major newspaper in India. The biggest thing though has to be the kind of support we are getting from independent musicians. We set out to build them a platform through which they can express themselves, and their trust and support in this project is very gratifying.

5) What’s your take on the future of Net radio, keeping in mind the bandwidth issues, especially in the Indian context?

Bandwidth requirements are a thing of the past, India is waking up to broadband. We think Internet Radio is a big step forward, the kind of things one can do with internet radio far transcends traditional AM/FM radio. I don’t want to spill too many beans yet but some of the things we are going to introduce on the station in the short future, will show the capability of internet radio as a mainstream medium.

Earlier Radio Indigo was with Worldspace & now turned to be an independent FM station.

Also Radio Indio has announced that it will start Kannada programs from 01 November this year where they will play non-film music like Folk, Bhavageethe etc.

More info on RadioIndigo.