Find Camping: ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 2010

ಮಂಗಳವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 30, 2010

T.M. Sundarrajan - classical Carnatic songs

Courtesy: tmsounderrajan.org
Here is another link for Seethapathe with a rare photo

r b subramanian said...: Dear Sri Hariharan,The uploaded files are not mp3 files. can u please check it upRegardsr b subramanian
March 31, 2010 2:07 PM
hvaidya said...: Yes. They are not mp3. I was bit lazy to convert nearly 60 songs to mp3. But they are down loadable and can be heard through any music media.Are you not able to download and hear them? Please let me know.
March 31, 2010 7:21 PM
BHASKARAN said...: There is a software called Any Audio Converter which is available free of cost, you may kindly download and convert the files to mp3.Regardsbhaskaran
April 1, 2010 7:31 AM
SAHASRADALASARASIJAMADHYANIVASINO SAKALACHNDRA BHASKARATEJA PRAKASINO SAHAJANANDASTHITHA DAASAVISHWASINO SACHITSUKHATHMAKAVISHWAVILASINO said...: these are not music files but only playlist files software can only convert music files . each of the given link is only 60 -70 kb useless stuff which cant be converted into any format as it is not music file at all
April 3, 2010 2:42 AM
hvaidya said...: It is not useless. Many have downloaded these songs and enjoying the songs. More than 1800 downloads have been done so far and still going on. I also checked up with those who downloaded them that whether they are able to save and hear the songs. Yes they down loaded, saved and hearing the songs. Please check up once again
April 3, 2010 12:36 PM

ಸೋಮವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 29, 2010

My diary - 29th March 2010

I have today added 38 songs to T. N. Seshagopalan

ಶನಿವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 27, 2010

Live in relationship

I was receiving mails, mainly agitated over the recent observations made by the Supreme court in the case against Ms. Khushboo. Mr. Bhaskaran sent it with the title

WHERE WE LEADING TO: ARE WE SAYING GOOD BYE TO OUR INDIAN CULTURE.

Cohabitation is an arrangement whereby two people decide to live together on a longterm or permanent basis in an emotionally and/or sexually intimate relationship. The term is most frequently applied to couples who are not married.

Reasons for cohabitation

Today, cohabitation is a common pattern among people in the Western world. People may live together for a number of reasons. These may include wanting to test compatibility or to establish financial security before marrying. It may also be because they are unable to legally marry, because for example same-sex, some interracial or interreligious marriages are not legal or permitted. Other reasons include living with someone before marriage in an effort to avoid divorce, a way for polygamists or polyamorists to avoid breaking the law, a way to avoid the higher income taxes paid by some two-income married couples (in the United States), negative effects on pension payments (among older people), and philosophical opposition to the institution of marriage and seeing little difference between the commitment to live together and the commitment to marriage. Some individuals also may choose cohabitation because they see their relationships as being private and personal matters, and not to be controlled by political, religious or patriarchal institutions.
Some couples prefer cohabitation because it does not legally commit them for an extended period, and because it is easier to establish and dissolve without the legal costs often associated with a divorce. In some jurisdictions cohabitation can be viewed legally as common-law marriages, either after the duration of a specified period, or the birth of the couple's child, or if the couple consider and behave accordingly as husband and wife. (This helps provide the surviving partner a legal basis for inheriting the deceased's belongings in the event of the death of their cohabiting partner.)

Opposition

In the Western world, a man and a woman who lived together without being married were once socially shunned and persecuted and potentially prosecuted by law. In some jurisdictions, cohabitation was illegal until relatively recently. Other jurisdictions have created a Common-law marriage status when two people of the opposite sex live together for a prescribed period of time. Most jurisdictions no longer prosecute this choice.
Opposition to cohabitation comes mainly from religious groups, but also some factions of feminists as well. Opponents of cohabitation usually argue that living together in this fashion is less stable and hence harmful. According to one argument, the total and unconditional commitment of marriage strengthens a couple's bond and makes the partners feel more secure, more relaxed, and happier than those that have chosen cohabitation. Opponents of cohabitation commonly cite statistics that indicate that couples who have lived together before marriage are more likely to divorce, and that unhappiness, ill health, poverty, and domestic violence are more common in unmarried couples than in married ones.

Cohabitation advocates, in turn, cite limited research that either disproves these claims or indicates that the statistical differences are due to other factors than the fact of cohabitation itself.

Support

In some Western nations such as the United States and Great Britain divorce laws and family law give more rights toward women in terms of property rights, rights to male working labor of resource provision outside of marriage, sole parental and custody rights to children. In essence, as a legal institution, marriage is an obligation from a man to a woman to support her outside of marriage by the contractual obligations of divorce. In the United States women initiate 2/3 of all divorce. As a result some men choose to avoid what they see as the unequal commitment, responsibility, risk and obligation they would be subject to in the legal contract of marriage. The Men's and Father's Rights Movement and Men's Rights Activists hold similar views and seek equality in divorce and custody law.

In India, cohabitation had been taboo since British rule. However, this is no longer true in big cities, but is still often found in rural areas with more conservative values. Female live-in partners have economic rights under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

Now read this also:

London, March 26 (ANI) The Office for National Statistics has revealed that couples who are married are less likely to split up than those who live together.

Analysis of Census results found that four-fifths of spouses who were married in 1991 were still together a decade later, compared with three-fifths of cohabiting couples.
The independent statistics body said older couples and those with children were more likely to stay in the same relationships.
The findings of the ONS are likely to reignite the political debate over whether married couples should be given tax breaks.
The Conservatives have pledged to recognise marriage in the tax system, ensuring that spouses would not lose out if one wanted to stay at home to raise their children, on the grounds that stable families are good for society.

But Labour ministers, who abolished tax breaks for married couples, say that families now come in "all shapes and sizes" and so it would be wrong to disadvantage single parents or widows.
The ONS report, included in a new edition of its regular publication, Population Trends, analysed the information about living arrangements provided by 318,533 adults in its own Longitudinal Study.
Researchers tracked those who answered questions in both the 1991 and 2001 Census then looked in detail to find out whether they remained in the same relationship over the decade.
They found that of those who were cohabiting in 1991, 61 percent were with the same partner 10 years later while 39 percent were not.
Of those who stayed together, most had by then married their partner. The majority whose relationship had ended were living alone.
By contrast, 82 percent of those who were married in 1991 were still with their spouse in 2001. Of the 18 percent who had divorced or been widowed, most were single although a small proportion had remarried.
"It shows that marriage was more stable than cohabitation, even when controlling for a variety of factors," the Telegraph quoted the ONS as saying.
Detailed models suggested that couples were more likely to split up if they were younger, had no children, had previously split up with partners, were poorly educated or were unemployed.
"The Government persists in saying there's no difference between marriage and other forms of relationship but these official statistics are telling us, from a completely neutral standpoint, that there is a difference," Jill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, a think-tank, said.
"Living together is not an equivalent to marriage for family stability. That's why it's important to protect and support marriage, in the interests of children," she stated.
Marriage rates are already at their lowest level since records began in 1862, with just 232,990 weddings taking place in England and Wales during 2008.
But despite the greater instability of cohabitation, the ONS believes even fewer couples are likely to tie the knot in future.
"There have been notable changes in UK partnership behaviour over the last 40 years," the report said.
"Divorce rates rose considerably during the 1970s, remained broadly stable after the mid-1980s, and more recently have fallen since 2004.
"At the same time, there has been a long-term fall in marriage rates since the beginning of the 1970s, and a steady increase in the proportion of adults cohabiting.
"For unmarried men in Great Britain aged 16 to 59, the proportion cohabiting increased from 11 per cent in 1986 to 27 per cent in 2007.
"There was a similar change for equivalent unmarried women, from 13 per cent to 28 per cent.
"This change in partnership behaviour is likely to persist.
"According to demographic projections, the long-term rise in cohabitation will continue, with the number of cohabiting couples in England and Wales projected to rise from 2.25 million in 2007 to 3.70 million in 2031.
"The same figures show that the proportion of the adult population that is legally married is projected to fall from 49 per cent in 2007 to 41 per cent by 2031," it concluded. (ANI)

As far as I know the longest living in couple are Mr. Karunanidhi ( Chief Minister of Tamilnadu) and Rajaththi Ammal

My diary - 27th March 2010

Kind attention please !

Mr. Raman, one of the readers, pointed out the error in the posting of Concert No 90 of G.N.B. The wonderful song number 6, Baalagopaala - Bhairavi was missing and thereby the numbers for the songs were also in error. Now I have corrected and posted the missing song. Those who downloaded the other songs may now download the song No 6 also and have the complete concert.

Is India shining?

Contributed by Mr. Balayogi. ( If you have difficulty in reading the contents, Please zoom as many time as possible and read comfortably.)

ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 26, 2010

Are multi-vitamins dangerous?

Before we get into any possible detriments of typical

multi-vitamins, let's first

ask a simple question...
 
Do humans really need vitamins piled into a pill to be

healthy?
 
And the answer is a big fat NO!
 
Let's just think about it from a logigal perspective...

humans did just fine for 10's of thousands of years without

artificially concentrating vitamins into a pill.

Multi-vitamins have only been around for a few decades,

but people somehow survived and lived long

lives prior to that.
 
But the problem is that the majority of the population

in today's overly processed food world doesn't eat the

nutritious diet that our hunter/gatherer ancestors did.   
 
And what about the argument that many people give which

claims that all of our soils are worn out and no longer

provide the nutrients in our produce that we used to get,

even just 100 years ago?
 
Well, this is both true and false.  Sure there is a large

amount of farmland where the soil has been abused by

chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, erosion,

and lack of crop rotation.
 
However, there are also small local farms in every area of

the world where the soil has been treated right, and you can

still get TONS of nutrition from the produce that's grown on

those fields. Plus, if you have your own garden, YOU'RE the

one in control of the quality of the soil, and therefore, the

quality and nutrition levels of the produce you grow on it.
 
So do ALL of us really need a multi-vitamin?
 
No, not as long as you eat a great variety of vegetables,

fruits, eggs, nuts, seeds, grass-fed meats, wild fish, and

other nutrient-rich un-processed foods that were grown or

raised correctly... PLUS, as long as you avoid junk foods and

things such as soda beverages that actually deplete nutrients

from your body.
 
So THAT is where the problem comes in... 
 
While some people do eat a tremendously healthy diet and

avoid junk foods and soda,the vast majority of the population

eats a fair amount of junk foods, fast food, sodas and other

sweetened drinks, candies, cookies, etc, etc.
 
This means that not only are they harming their body with

the junk foods and nutrient depleting sodas, but since a

significant portion of their calories are coming from

micronutrient-deficient foods, they are usually lacking

in some micro-nutrients.
 
So, in this case... Yes, a multi-vitamin can come in handy.
 
But there's another problem with most Multi-vitamins... 
 
Most multi-vitamins contain artificial forms of certain

vitamins and many of these have been proven to have

detrimental effects in the body and/or reduce the

assimilation in the body compared to the natural forms

of vitamins.
 
For example, there are plenty of research studies on

synthetic vitamin E vs natural vitamin E... many

studies not only show that synthetic vitamin E has

lower absorption by the body, but also that

the body excretes synthetic vitamin E faster than natural.

There is also evidence that synthetic vitamin E might

even have detrimental effects in the body. 
 
The same goes for other synthetic vitamins vs natural

forms of the same vitamins.
 
While I don't personally take a multi-vitamin, I do

recommend one if your diet contains more than 10-20% of

your calories from processed food, such as breads,

sweetened drinks, crackers, cookies, donuts,

sweet desserts, chips, or if you drink a lot of alcohol.
 
The best multi-vitamin that I've found is

actually produced from natural forms of vitamins,

mostly extracted from 25 different vegetables, greens,

and fruits, such as:
 
*Kelp
*Wheat grass
*Broccoli
*Kale
*Collard Greens
*Spinach
*Cauliflower
*Barley grass
*Chlorella
*and 16 others -- up to 25 different veggies, fruits,

and greens
. 
Better yet, even the Vitamin D in this comes from a

fish liver oil, so that you can be assured it's from a

natural source, instead of synthetic vitamin D.

courtesy:  Mike Geary

Visakha Hari - Thiyagraja charithram

http://www.mediafire.com/?ggiqzm2ilnm Part - 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?nugzzmy2nwn Part - 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?k0ztmydtvww Part - 3
http://www.mediafire.com/?zljdlkzygzd Part - 4

contributed by Mr. Srinivasa Raghavan

Anonymous said...: Hello sir,Thanks for sharing this. Thanks to all your posts, I've become addicted to Smt.Vishakha Hari's narratives.Just to let you know,I'm unable to download part 4 of Shri Thyagaraja charitram. There is a mediafire error.Thanks,Meera
March 26, 2010 10:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh, actually, it works now!thanks,Meera
March 26, 2010 10:43 PM
SAHASRADALASARASIJAMADHYANIVASINO SAKALACHNDRA BHASKARATEJA PRAKASINO SAHAJANANDASTHITHA DAASAVISHWASINO SACHITSUKHATHMAKAVISHWAVILASINO said...: THANKS A MILLION , A DAY AFTER RAMA NAVAMI IT WAS GREAT CELEVRATION IN OUR HOUSE AND EVERY ONE ENJOYED THE UPANYASAM.I pray to lord RAMA for your good health and prosperity of all your family and friends

ಗುರುವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 25, 2010

Concert No 92 - D. K. Pattammal at Newyork

http://www.mediafire.com/?gm2zmmmwmam Varnam - Dhamasinchu - Asaaveri
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzykmzzz5jk Vinave O manasa - Vivardhani
http://www.mediafire.com/?dynnl2azz5z Kannathandri nee pai - Dhevamanohari
http://www.mediafire.com/?4tzmoomw4dm Arumarundhu - Kaambodhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?nz2uo5guhh5 Adhigi sukhamu - Madhyamavathi
http://www.mediafire.com/?d53mezhww2m Naanoru vilaiyaatu - Behaag
http://www.mediafire.com/?0ez35wnohny Brovamma - Manji
http://www.mediafire.com/?kyhwmtxd1zo Nannu Brochutaku - Thodi
http://www.mediafire.com/?wnm4ktiwmzy Bhajare re manasa - Aabheri
http://www.mediafire.com/?yzz2zg00mzm Raama raama - Vasantha
http://www.mediafire.com/?juzryzqmxmg Shanthamu leka - Saama
http://www.mediafire.com/?tjhfzlm0nnd Nee varakula dhanamu - Begadaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?yjvylmiynxo Sivakama sundari - Mukhaari
http://www.mediafire.com/?wdgfekflmke Soundararajam - Brindhavana saarangaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?xmmytziejmg RTP - Jaganmohini
http://www.mediafire.com/?mozmnywniqn Chalinenentu - Lalitha
http://www.mediafire.com/?tztzxrymnln Elaratayane - Bhairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?oitdzn42hdn Theeraadha vilaiyattu - Sindhu bairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?jymg2zdd2di Shanthi nilava vendum - Thilang
http://www.mediafire.com/?znk3jizgjxy Apakaaranindhai - Chakrqavaagam
http://www.mediafire.com/?y2zjhtowz3c Thillaanaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?zozmby53njh Mangalam

ಬುಧವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 24, 2010

Some nostalgic memories

me (extreme right) in 70s
One more interesting contribution from Ms.Sivapriyakrishnan which will take many of us back to 70s

People who grew up during the 70s and well early eighties in middle class India ....

1 Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 5-8 years, you were very proud of your first “Bellbottom” or your first “Maxi”

2 Phantom & Mandrake were your only true heroes. You can also nod your heads to names like Chandamama, Champak, Lot-Pot, Nandan. The brainy ones read “Competition Success Review”.

3 You took pride in turning to the back page of your latest Amar Chitra Katha and ticking off yet another title. How many ever you ticked, you still had many to go.

4 Your “Camlin” geometry box & Flora pencil was your prized possession.

5 The only “Holidays” you took were to go to your grandparents’ or your cousins’ houses.

6 Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla softy in a cone or at most – a Choco Bar if you lived in a swanky town. Coke was an immense luxury, followed by Thums Up !!

7 Your first family car ( and the only one) was a Fiat. Or an ambassador. This often had to be pushed by the entire family to get going.

8 The glass windows in the back seats used to get stuck at the two-thirds down level and used to irk the shit out of you! The window went down only if your puny arm could manage the tacky rotary handle to pull it down. Locking the door was easy. You just whacked the other tacky, non-rotary handle downwards.

9 Your mom had stitched the weirdest lace curtains for all the windows of the car. They were tied in the middle and if your dad was the comfort-oriented kinds, you had a magnificent small fan upfront, below which screwed to the board was the cassette player.

10 Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You “earned” yours after 8th or the 10th standard exams.

11 You have been to “Jumbo Circus” ; have held your breath while the pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the “Maut ka Gola” and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!

12 You have atleast once heard “Hawa Mahal” on the radio.

13 If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighborhood to gather around to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn’t have a TV, you just went to a house that did. It mattered little if you knew the owners or not.

14 Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!

15 Black & White TVs weren’t so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.

16 You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own ( the family’s; not your own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started. Everyone else got the same idea as well and ever since, no one came over to your house and you didn’t go to anyone else’s.

17 You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would announce on the TV. After all how much “Shashtriya Sangeet” can a kid take? Salma Sultana didn’t smile either during the mourning.

18 You knew that “Indira Gandhi” was somebody really powerful and terribly important. And that’s all you needed to know.

19 The only “Gadgets” in the house were the TV, the Fridge and the Mixie.

20 All the gadgets had to be duly covered with a crochet covers and sometimes even with ingenious, custom-fit plastic covers.

21 Movies meant Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory “newsreel”.

22 You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba and BoneyM

23 You had a turntable “stereo” and a collection of LP Records. Your hormones went crazy when you bought “Disco Deewane” by Naziya Hassan & Zoheb Hassan.

24 You couldn’t contain your happiness when you suddenly had knowledge of Grammy awards and Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper & OMG even Michael Jackson became familiar names.

25 School teachers, your parents and even your neighbours could whack you and it was all okay.

26 Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family owned a camera. A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation & “setting” & the “posing” for each picture. Therefore, you have atleast one family picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing at attention!

27. When you really counted down days to "Diwali" every year.

innocence was natural,

when getting high meant on a swing

when drinking meant rasna

when dad was the only hero , when love was mom's hug When dad's shoulders was the highest place on earth,

when worst enemies were your siblings, when the only thing that could hurt were bleeding knees,

when the only things broken were toys, and when goodbyes only meant till tomorrow.....
life has changed quite a bit since then......

Many more nostalgic memories hidden there….get them out!

The photo on the top is one I got out

ಮಂಗಳವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 23, 2010

To get more things done in less time - Part 2

What is man's best friend ( besides the dog) ? The waste basket ! - Business week

Your work space

Okay ! Clear your desk ........NOW. Despite what some people believe, a cluttered desk does not indicate genius. It signals confusion and creates stress. Even mini-clutter will grow and eventually fill every inch. Keep your desk clear of everything except your project du jour and your family photo.

Get rid of that paper. Shuffling and reshuffling paper from pile to pile or file to file wastes time and keeps you from focusing on what needs to get done. Find a gigantic waste basket and fill it up. The larger the waste basket, the more you will use it. Throwing thisngs away then becomes an art. Enjoy !

Files should not be an obstacle course. Put your most often reviewed files at the front of the cabinet. Here is a test to see if your current filing system works. Within two minutes, can you retrieve any paper you need? Go. If you failed the test you are wasting time searching through your files.

Never clear off your desk by randomly throwing things in a drawer. You will eventually have to go through that drawer. Instead, create a logical system for storing these items in your desk.

A picture or two on your desk is probably not distracting, but limit pictures to a special few. The more pictures on your desk, the more distractions and interruptions you invite.

Organise your desktop. If you are right handed, make sure the phone is located on the left side of your desk. You have to keep the right side of the desk ( and your right hand) free to take notes. Just opposite for the lefties. Right handed people should place the calculator on the right side of their desk. Ditto above for the southpaws, the proud and under represented.

Avoid glass desktops. They glare and hard to keep clean, You don't need to spend your valuable time wiping off finger prints.

If a report comes across your desk that you can't use, notify the sender and ask to be deleted from distribution. The key question to ask is " would I pay for this report if I had to?" If not, get rid of it.

If you only use four lines of a report, ask for reformat, if possible. Four pages when you need four lines just does not make sense - does it?

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keeping putting off doing it

The work Environment: Make it productive !

Now hear this ! Never say " yes" without considering the time time investment you are committing. Having the courage to say " no"   to requests that are inappropriate or unnecessary could be your most effective time management tool !

Take the time to understand the role of every department in your organisation. This time invested up front will eliminate your
" panic"   when some one has an urgent request outside your department.

" Perfection paralysis"    is expensive. Sometimes it is not worth the effort to make things " perfect" . Take a look at time costs involved and weigh these against the benefit of perfection. Many times second best in operation is better than first best on the drawing board.

Copy the world every time you send a memo? But, realistically, does " the world"   really care? When writing a memo or sending an e-mail, only distribute to the people who really need to know the information. Some of " the world " feels obligated to respond and then evey one's time is wasted.

Want to get your written point across - fast? Limit your sentences to fifteen words.

Are you really listening? Every time you say, " But I thought you said"   you might as well be saying, " I wasted all this time doing, the wrong thing."   Listen, clarify, and make sure you understand the task before going forward. It is good time investment for both the parties.

Is it your job to pick up every ball that some one drops? Avoid the label at all costs. Think about it !

Don't try to solve other people's problems. You may be empathetic to their situation, but if you spend your time solving their problems, Surprise! Their next problem will become yours, too! The best thing you can do is, help others learn how to solve their own problems.

Interruptions.....

" Got a minute?"   never means just one minute. Before you answer, always ask " What is this about?"

" Hey, you got a minute?" . That is a question, not a demand. Don't get angry with the interrupter if you answered " Sure"   to their question. General rule. If you cannot eliminate the interruption, make the interruption as short as possible.

When people arrive to interrupt, meet them at the door and talk outside your office. Letting them in may add minutes to the interruption.

Stand up ! When some one shows up unannounced, keep standing until you decide if you want the conversation to continue. Standing is not comfortable to most people and the length of most interruptions is in direct proportion of the comfort level of the interrupter.

Signal the end of the time allotted by politely saying " One more thing before you go" . Be respectful but take control. Remember that this is your office and you are responsible for the time here.

Get rid of extra chairs in your office. You can always pull one from somewhere else if you need it.

Arrange your office so that your desk does not face the door. People are less likely to interrupt if they can't see your face.

Keep track of the origins of your interruptions. Don't be surprised to find your biggest interrupter is your boss ! After getting over the shock, sit down with your boss and see if you can find ways to decrease the number of interruptions so that you can be more productive.

Schedule " one to one" sessions with your staff and boss. Gather everything you need to talk about and take care of it at one sitting rather than interrupting each other the minute some thing comes up.

When you don't want to be disturbed, put you candy dish away. It is an interrupter magnet.

Give yourself a break! You can accomplish 60 minutes' worth of interrupted work in just 20 minutes of non interrupted work. Is there better investment of your time?

Want to make a positive difference in the time investment of your company? Ask your peers and subordinates, " What do I do that wastes your time and hinders your performance?"

Henry Ford was always dropping into the offices of his company's executives. When asked why he did not have them come to him, he replied," Well ! I will tell you. I have found that I can leave the other fellow's office a lot quicker than I can get him to leave mine".

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

ಭಾನುವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 21, 2010

Introducing Raagaas through Pallavi

This link was sent to me by Mr. Parameswaran from Bombay, This is also available in Sangeethapriya. I thought this will be useful to my readers also; particularly to the beginners of Carnatic music.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mtyfmyzjnjd Hamsadhwani
http://www.mediafire.com/?gqmniwukhjz Maayaamaalavagowla
http://www.mediafire.com/?yyuqjn2yhnn Kedhaaram
http://www.mediafire.com/?tmzmj0utm0q Sri ranjanai
http://www.mediafire.com/?2onzztznaoz Shanmugapriyaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?yzzjgznzglk Nalinakanthi
http://www.mediafire.com/?yj4ynmljmzi Shri
http://www.mediafire.com/?mtjqeym0nzw - Bilahari
http://www.mediafire.com/?ihzttmmq0du Kaapi
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjmofknnnmb Saamaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?mcl4y5mnzo0 Malayamaarudham
http://www.mediafire.com/?zz2ykgh4ykw Dhevagaandhaari
http://www.mediafire.com/?mdimmj3fxn0 Aabheri
http://www.mediafire.com/?jy0jyttklwx Dwajaawanthi
http://www.mediafire.com/?tiror5vk20r Souraashtram
http://www.mediafire.com/?xmmvdjwzkyi Nata
http://www.mediafire.com/?oynnnmm2kxi Janaranjani
http://www.mediafire.com/?xmyhjyynzw1 Panthuvaraali
http://www.mediafire.com/?kmni5zeizch Aanandhabairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?nezgiwgezmg Kaambodhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?owlvz30fmmw Ranjani
http://www.mediafire.com/?ycinwnntjqz Vasantha
http://www.mediafire.com/?nygxnemmtij Dhanyaasi
http://www.mediafire.com/?3vkduzxmumo Karaharapriyaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?ezhydu03gwd Hamsanaadham
http://www.mediafire.com/?kogoznznktm Neelaambari
http://www.mediafire.com/?ltkycj0nknw Hamirkalyaani
http://www.mediafire.com/?kkjomzkdyfm Durbaarikaanadaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?mnvcfzdgnum Thilang
http://www.mediafire.com/?ogmnwmin2mz Punnaagavaraali (incomplete)
http://www.mediafire.com/?mmmzzdzgmw5 Asaaveri
http://www.mediafire.com/?2zv4k1dimzj Ataanaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?nmy1mnonqlg Saarangaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?mkzmzu1oh2j Harikaambodhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?mhgatyyjhlm Mukhaari
http://www.mediafire.com/?5mm0tmtfjgm Hindholam
http://www.mediafire.com/?umzn3yjm4dj Begadaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?2z1judjhmjh Dharmaavadhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?y1miliznnqx Naattakurinji
http://www.mediafire.com/?2clxbfnyomm Thodi
http://www.mediafire.com/?cn4mmzjmo1m Dhevamanohari
http://www.mediafire.com/?wdmljhll5kd Kundhalavaraali
http://www.mediafire.com/?dgyynq2zlm2 Saaveri
http://www.mediafire.com/?kmngq2mdhzu Kedhaaragowlaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?rjmuz2juvmx Sivaranjani
http://www.mediafire.com/?jnqtdmee4n2 Brindaavana Saarangaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?gbymmjrvqzm Behaag
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ym5un3gdgt Suratti
http://www.mediafire.com/?2mzdjtvi2jr Aarabhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?2zmoklkzvn0 Aabhogi
http://www.mediafire.com/?z11ummmm3it Varaali
http://www.mediafire.com/?gjcwn2onzor Reetigowla
http://www.mediafire.com/?qcmjnezqzbi Kalyaani
http://www.mediafire.com/?jtmmymemwnt Lalitha
http://www.mediafire.com/?ymmewrdy5zy Mohanam
http://www.mediafire.com/?zqltyo2zdnz Saraswathi
http://www.mediafire.com/?iq2lzjiqwgw Keeravaani
http://www.mediafire.com/?wyomdzodzdn Amrithavarshini
http://www.mediafire.com/?uoonywwigmz Kamaas
http://www.mediafire.com/?wkq0htikdvy Bhaageshri
http://www.mediafire.com/?nkkkniag2tm Desh
http://www.mediafire.com/?iftnwywzwzl Madhuvanthi
http://www.mediafire.com/?wyznjr2yjmi Sindhubairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?55nnqtmmyd3 Gowlaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?zr2zdyoydzk Poorvikalyaani
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2dmmyevtnj Durbaar
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytevztjjymn Yadhukulakambodhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?lmezmaoqwcj Bhairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?dnnouounmnu Sankaraabaranam
http://www.mediafire.com/?oeotdywkyiq Kaanadaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?dznyjmzymjj Aahiri
http://www.mediafire.com/?myzmktd0yt5 Sahaanaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?mzzylnghyyd Revathi
http://www.mediafire.com/?jommcwwynym Hamsaanandhi
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytcmynmhlnu Madhyamaavathi

ಶನಿವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 20, 2010

Concert No 91 - Chembai

Chembai with TVG and Yesudoss

http://www.mediafire.com/?jzdigdzzzhd Varnam
http://www.mediafire.com/?wzzm2dvz0mj Rakshamaam
http://www.mediafire.com/?kngfkndfnyz Endaro
http://www.mediafire.com/?nbhjtzmddhy Raghuvaraa
http://www.mediafire.com/?w0kny2zmz14 Sri subramanyaaya namasthe
http://www.mediafire.com/?my5mbz04jyw Thaaye Yasodhaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?dzjzdmjqjyu Maamava Pattabhirama
http://www.mediafire.com/?1tmwtknjnjy Nandha nandhanaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?zteen3jdnuu Thillaanaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?njzycigvzgt Slokam

ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 19, 2010

Images of Carnatic music stalwarts - 3

Images of Carnatic Music stalwarts - 2

Images of carnatic music stlwarts - 1

These images are given to me by Mr. Bhaskaran

Concert No 90 - G. N. B

http://www.mediafire.com/?nifmwiyjjjo Vaathaapi ganapathim - Hamsadhwani
http://www.mediafire.com/?0enm5mjltzm Parpaalaya sarasiruha - Kamavardhini
http://www.mediafire.com/?nmwwzy2ztzj Manasaa ethulo - Malayamarutham
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjyzj4lnyom Raaga sudha rasa - Andholika
http://www.mediafire.com/?yromz3njjz0 Kalayaami raguraamam - Begadaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?mgxc0wp8qtmp96nBaalagopaala - Bhairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?nwyownqqhmm Parama paavani - Ataanaa
http://www.mediafire.com/?mqyhqmmmiuz Vara raagalaya - Chenchkamboji
http://www.mediafire.com/?nznfongn2rj RTP - Shanmugapriya
http://www.mediafire.com/?3svsok2to5eha4qMaa ramanan - Hindhilam
http://www.mediafire.com/?euzzmxdtmwu Vandhe maadharam(Viruththam)- Raagamalika
http://www.mediafire.com/?fdnmyeyzmoo Vyathasya (Viruththam) Raagamalika
http://www.mediafire.com/?hmgt4tgkyxb Dhavalaroopa - Aanandhabairavi
http://www.mediafire.com/?65w2gwie5he739tRaadha mukha kamala - Kaapi
http://www.mediafire.com/?dtuln3y1jt3 Mangalam - Sourashtram

Anonymous said...: The song number 6 is missing so rest of the songs also have wrong numbering. Thanks Raman
March 27, 2010 12:27 PM
hvaidya said...: Thanks Mr. Raman for pointing out the omission. I have included the wonderful Bhairavi now. Thanks once again. Please continue to point out the omissions and errors if any without any hesitation.
March 27, 2010 3:08 PM

Anonymous said...: Thank you for uploading a wonderful concert of GNB (concert no 90). COMMENT 1: The item 09 RTP in Shanmukhapriya (playing time 59:57)is empty for nearly 50 miniutes. (Kindly look into this as the performance and the recording quality is very good) COMMENT 2: The following songs are not opening and are directed to the mediafire page with the comment that they are not to be found. 06. Balagopala (Bhairavi) 10. MaaRamanan (Hindolam) 14. Radha mukha kamalam (Kapi) K.NAGARAJAN
September 4, 2010 7:02 AM
hvaidya said...: Dear Mr. Nagarajan, Thanks for pointing out this. I am negotiating with Mediafire, for missing of more than 150 files suddenly.They were asking me the URL of missing files. I was not able to locate the missing URL out of 7800 files. Now you have helped me to find few of the missing files so that I can take up the matter with them. However, I have uploaded fresh the missing files. ( Baala gopaala, Maa ramanan and Raadha mukha) RTP Shanmugapriya is very much working and once again I downloaded on another computer and heard the full song without interruption.About 175 have downloaded and I have not received any other complaint. check once once again and let me know to help you further
September 4, 2010 10:41 AM

jhggbkh said...: I was unable to download No. 6 Bhairavi in GNB Concert No. 90. Could you pl. email it to me. Thanks. SV
September 23, 2010 8:06 PM

hvaidya said...
It is very much opening. please try again and let me know

September 24, 2010 9:45 PM

ಗುರುವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 18, 2010

Why should you believe somebody else other than yourself?

மதிப்புக்குரிய கவர்னர் சல்லாபத்தில் ஈடுபடுகிறார். மக்கள் நம்பிக்கை வைத்து வாக்களித்த அரசியல்வாதிகள் ஊழல் புகாரில் சிறைக்குச் செல்கிறார்கள். கடவுளை பூஜிக்க வேண்டிய அர்ச்சகர் கோயில் கருவறையில் பெண்களுடன் உறவாடுகிறார். மன அமைதிக்காக மக்கள்

செல்லும் ஆசிரமங்கள்சர்ச்சைக் கூடாரங்களாக மாறுகின்றன.

இப்படியிருந்தால்........ மக்கள் யாரைத்தான் நம்புவது?

"A respected Governor is enjoying with women. The politicians on whom the people have faith are getting involved in corruption and go to prisons. The priest who is expected to worship God is having illicit relation with women in Sanctum. The Ashrams where people go for peace of mind are becoming controversial tents.

If this is so................whom the people have to believe?"

This is the translation of above mentioned statement made by a Tamil weekly "Kumudam" after stopping the articles published regularly for more than two years, written (?) by Nithyaanandhaa.

I was surprised at the last line. Why should you believe somebody? Through out my life I was pondering over this subject,whether you have to believe always in somebody to guide you or live on your own decisions. I arrived at a conclusion, that only if you have no confidence in yourselves, you need some body as your guide.

Of course, you need advice and guidance until the age of sixteen or eighteen from your parents, elders, teachers etc, because you may not be intelligent enough to decide what is right or wrong. Once you reach that age and had basic education to understand and analyze matters, you alone have to be your master. I am not telling that you should not seek any body's advice in matters you did not comprehend. But, however after getting advice and guidance, it is you, you alone, should take decision and you should not be influenced by others advices.

You may face failures on account of your own decisions. But failures do happen when you act as per others advices also. It is better you fail on account of your own decisions than spoiling the image of the persons who advised you and claim themselves, that they are more knowledgeable than you.

You learn things from others! But, you be the judge on your acts after learning the subjects. It is the lack of confidence in self alone, make people go to some persons who claim that they are great, Guru, Swami etc. Let them teach anything. If you have time hear or read their preachings. But, is that necessary that you should become his disciple or follower? Don't you have the capacity to think over them and take the best things out of it and apply in your life and proceed? Is that necessary, you should go to them, every time to make any decisions on any issue. If you are taught to ask, "What, when, Why, How" on every subject you hear, and you have acquired sufficient knowledge to arrive at answers for these questions, why do you need some body else to do this job for you?

Vivekananda said , " The God for whom you are praying in temples, and crying in churches and mosques is your own self." If you are God itself, why do you need God-men? Have you ever thought over, "when these people claim they are God, Guru and Master for all of us, why can't I be God, Guru and Master at least to myself."

I respect women a lot. I admire them on many aspects of qualities. But it is they, in majority, who fall prey to such Swamijis, Gurus, and masters. Men also go, but very few of them become their devotees, and those who become the devotees are with ulterior motives, such as, the advantages of their company. They think of God-men only when they feel, that they are not able to achieve certain things on their own. Whereas women start thinking of these people, seek their blessings, even before they attempt something of their own. Even certain women, who are educated and independent from the influence of father, brother, husband and son are succumbing to these outsiders.

People are forgetting that these God-men are no way superior by education, superior in knowledge or experience, except they talk as though they are teaching something which was never told or written in our ancient books and literature. When we question our relatives, neighbours, friends turned out to be rich and possess huge wealth and properties, we never question these so called God-men acquiring wealth more than required for anybody, leave aside they preach detachment. Nobody thinks, why these God-men require so much of money and properties. "They are not asking, devotees are giving and they are running lot of institutions to help poor" is the statement by the followers of these God-men. In the process of this claim, they live in luxurious bungalows, have air-conditioned rooms and cars, consume drugs and enjoy women and what not !

How can somebody predict what is going to happen to you, when himself does not know what is going to happen to him? How can a person cure your decease without even going nearer to the compound of a medical college? How can any body teach you or preach you how to be successful in life without studying anything on the subject what you are in? To sort out a problem in your business or profession will you consult your servant maid, gardener or driver? They may be excellent in their profession and their limitation is only that much. To solve your tax problem, you go to a Chartered Accountant because he is expert in that. You do not go to him when you get chest pain or even stomach pain, but only to a qualified medical practitioner. Similarly to your legal problem, production problem, marketing problem,administrative problem, psychological problem, family problem and for everything there are experts in the respective field. Then why do you need somebody to give you peace when everything is looked after by experts? How do you expect somebody who has not even completed his matriculation or school final to teach you to solve your income tax problem? If you feel that he is capable of solving that problem, it only shows that you have not thought over your problem properly to sort it out and so you become desperate to go to any body without even thinking whether he is qualified or not..

Believe in yourself ! That is what our literature is teaching. We claim to have read all these things, and still go to somebody else, saying that I am searching something. Why do you search for something which cannot be attained? Do not believe when some body says that many people obtained some thing superior than what you have obtained. The best quote in Tamil is "கண்டவர் விண்டிலர்: விண்டவர் கண்டிலர்." The truth is nobody found God and that is why they have not said it. Those who found God in themselves are the real founders. You do not need some body to guide you what you are, if you are intelligent enough to know that. So, to attain that intelligence is the search of life and you alone can do it.

The ultimate in life is that you should be happy and you alone can make yourself happy.

I will not be surprised after reading this, somebody writes to me "Swamiji ! Please guide me to find myself and the God in me !"

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