Bands, Businesses, Restaurants, Brands and Celebrities can create Pages in order to connect with their fans and customers on Facebook. Listen to Anup Jalota’s “Jag Mein Sundar Hai Do Naam”, a huge hit of a bhajan in the 90s. Evocative and forceful, Anup Jalota’s bhajan is a soft Todi, but what he plays on the harmonium is. It seems that people are interested in bringing out the DVDs of the super hit Kannada serial Garva. If you are interested in getting the DVDs, please contact Aman (details below). For now, you can listen to the superb Garva title song, a composition by Purandara Daasaru.
~DIVYA RAGHURAM~
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Divya Raghuram has been trained in Classical bharatnatyam by Guru Rangashree and performed her Rangapravesham in 1996. Since then, she has performed in various prestigious festivals and venues in the state.
- In 1997, she undertook a 7- city German tour and performed in
- In 1998, she worked in Frankfurter Hof, Mainz, Germany (Cultural centre run by the State of Rheinland Pfalz) for 2 months and was part of the organising team of the Zelt Festival.- a month-long international performing arts festival
- Produced‘Adi’- a special audio CD on Bharatnatyam adavus and shlokas.
- Was part of the core organizing team of the Bangalore Habba.
Divya has been a professional compere on Television since 1995 and has presented many stage shows & corporate events.She started acting in stage plays in 2001 and has been part of several plays including:
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She has directed Albert Camus’ ‘Just Assassins’ and Mahesh Dattani’s ‘Where there’s a will’. She is currently acting in a kannada daily ‘Mukta’ being aired on ETV.
Garva Kannada Serial
Now, this does not mean that I do not watch TV. I do watch it at the student union, or at a friend's place occasionally. The last time I saw was the French Open finals. Before that, I don't remember! It must have been a few months ago. However, the frequency is so rare that I really do not even know if I am missing something or ever care about it anymore.
In India, the only channels I loved to watch were NGC, Discovery, some AXN, some sports channels for F-1 and the occasional good programs on ETV and Udaya(such as Divya Darshana early in the mornings, or the one with Hiremagalur Kannan, and such). I also used to watch an occasional movie once in a while but kept away from serials and soaps and reality shows as much as possible. In fact, when I tried watching Band of Brothers on HBO, the only obstruction was some stupid home-wrecking soap that my mother did not want to miss! That led to a lot of arguments and I totally gave up fighting for the remote.
In the USA and not to mention in India, of late, people are heavily addicted to television. Teens and elders cant stop themselves from watching and discussing soaps and other bogus shows. Kids are glued to Pockemon and whatnot from the time they get up to the time they go to bed. I think that the AC Nielsen survey which says that people watch an average of 4 hours of TV per day is a conservative estimate! Thank goodness, at least that WWF craze is behind us!
Whenever I bring up the argument that TV is a useless gadget(according to me, that is what it has metamorphosized into), people talk about its good programs, exposure to a lot of topics(yeah right! Its only exposure these days!), blah blah... Are they kidding themselves? Does everyone watch such things?!? Then why are Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Saas Bhi..., etc so highly rated? How many people watched an informational program such as the Sunday night special 'Pompeii Uncovered' on NGC or ETV Raaga Ranjini or for that matter anything else?
I don't know what to talk in gatherings when people are discussing the latest episode of some television show. Fine. I can live with it. Neither do I care nor do I want to watch those brainless things just so that I can find a topic of conversation at parties. Without the TV, I find time to play tennis, take a walk, read something, etc. In fact, more and more people are waking up to the fact that the TV is spoiling homes. A Google search of 'living without TV' yields 42 million hits!
Dont get me wrong. I am not advocating that everyone should live without the television. But does it justify giving it the place of honour in the living room? What do you say?