Carnatic Concerts

Babu Srinivasan on August 27th, 2008

Alathur, Lalgudi, Palghat
Thodi

T.V. Sankaranarayan, Sundareswaran, Bhaktavatsalam
Nattai, Kalyani, Kapi, Revathi,

T.V. Gopalakrishnan, Sundareswaran, Sivaraman, Vasan
Thilang, Kannada Gowla, Panthuvarali, Navarasa Kanada, Thodi, Kapi, Yedukula Kamboji

K.V. Narayanaswamy, Veeraraghavan, Sivaraman
Part 1: Sri Ranjani, Khamas

K.V. Narayanaswamy, Veeraraghavan, Sivaraman
Part 2: Ranjani

Keyboard: Neepadhame: Nalinakanthi

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West Bengal or West Bandhall?

Babu Srinivasan on August 22nd, 2008

Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Bangalore were renamed Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai and Bengalooru respectively.
Why not rename states? With bandhs happening in the state at frequent intervals why not rename West Bengal as West Bandhall?

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suck they india

Babu Srinivasan on August 20th, 2008

What a sorry performance by the Indian cricket team. Suck they indeed.
Before the team left for Sri Lanka the main story was that Tendulkar needed 172 runs to surpass Brian Lara’s record in Test cricket (which probably was obtained in lot fewer tests). At the run rate Tendulkar is managing these days it will take [...]

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s UPA government survived the confidence motion by a much bigger margin (20 votes) than was predicted earlier. Though it was supposed to be a vote for or against the nuclear deal, it was anything but that.
The Left was probably the only party that stuck to its principles — right or wrong [...]

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