Awesome violin by Ganesh and Kumaresh. ...

Noted Veena player Jayanthi Kumaresh playing Raag Mand of Hindustaani music. One of my favourite composition. :) © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa'; ...

Dasara Goluvu is celebrated with the at home with the traditional wooden Pattada Bombe couple dolls which is widely available in Tirupati. The usual collection is Dashavathara, Krishna and Gopikas and a huge variety of dolls made of clay and oil painted. I...

A few days before of my Melbourne trip got confirmed, a colleague of mine, S~, who is also a good friend got engaged. Initially, we were cubicle mates and in turn became close friends, having breakfast, lunch and snacks together. In fact, we...

Celebrating any festival is now easy. Don't you worry if you haven't got an idol to worship; for all you have is a wallpaper to be downloaded to your phone or laptop. 1. Downloaded best of Lord Ganesha's wallpaper from Google images. 2....

Drafted on 22nd Feb 2011 There were times when I was extremely low. Near and dear ones would try their best to make me smile. Oh, smile! You have even faded away! Like S~ would crack a joke on how his date was....

Susceptible to boredom during my travel in the flight. I had my camera in my hand and clicked few pics. Though, not great, but still are memoirs of the journey from Bengaluru-Malaysia-Melbourne. :) Finally reached on June 5th. Can't believe its been three...

Its been exactly six weeks I arrived here in Melbourne. As I walk alone on Swanston St, not alone, along with iPhone ;) There are signals for pedestrians too. Cross the road only when signal is Green or else you will be fined....

I had boarded only the buses and auto rickshaws as a means of transport while at Bangalore. This is the first time I boarded a tram which I used to admire watching the English movies. :) The experience was good. One would find...

Here goes my first blog post from Melbourne. Its exactly a month, June 4th, that I left my hometown Bangalore. Melbourne, a place that I had heard of only during the cricket match. Australia, a country of adventures. A place which I just dreamed...

Two years I own a Vaio lappy. Feels great when people appreciate, "wow!! It looks NeW :D" . Looking at the yesteryear pictures and the one I clicked today, it looks very much NEW indeed. © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa';...

Miniature Veena. New addendum to the Dasara Dolls. :) Veena is one of the most divine Carnatic music instruments. © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa'; ...

I have been listening to this sing Taye Yoshada as a Comtemporary music. Beautifully sung by Carnatic Vocalist Sudha Raghunathan as a playback singer from the movie Morning Raga. © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa'; ...

The Japanese Wife, a movie in English, Bengali and Hindi directed by Aparna Sen. Snehamoy Chatterjee (Rahul Bose) lives in a remote village at the banks of river Matla along with his aunt whom he calls Mashi [Ma-shi means mother's sister in Bengali]....

Any wedding is incomplete without the bride adorned with Mehendi. Apart from the gold jewellery and costumes; Mehendi, flowers form an integral part of the bride's makeup. © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa'; ...

Supermoon: The full moon came closest to the earth in 18 years, becoming the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa'; ...

Ani, now, started a blog. Please visit his blog of poems: http://smilewithani.blogspot.com and do leave a comment. Author: SmileWithAni The calendar showed 26 11, there entered the dirty seven, once they hit the shore, they thought they could rise to the fore. The...

Inception - The poem! Author: SmileWithAni Thought I should've been dead, Thoughts just came into my head, Please don't say so she said, That's when I woke up from my bed. Bed next to me was empty, I'd been dreaming again of humpty-dumpty,...

Drafted on: 28th Jan 2011 Yahoo! Big Thinkers Event is organised every quarter and this time on Jan 28th. The Abstract: More and more social interactions are migrating online. In this talk we study patterns of such interactions in social applications including email,...

Drafted on: June 21st '09 Title: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini ISBN: 1-57322-245-3 Pages: 324 I read this book by Khaled Hosseini after watching the movie, The Kite Runner and also impressed reading his other book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The story...

A poet-friend of mine who goes by the screen name "SmileWithAni" (Smile with Ani) has written lovely poems and wished I would publish them on my blog on his behalf. She sat at the table eating an oat, Speaking words warm as coat,...

Ustad Bale Khan Memorial Trust and Antara Arts organised mesmerizing Sapta Sitar On Sunday, Feb 13th at JSS Auditorium. Musicians playing Sitar are from the Khan family. Sitar was introduced to South India by the Khan family. The photo clicked above got published...

Singer M.D. Pallavi along with Layatharanga mesmerizing concert during Kannada Rajyotsava celebrated on November 22nd, at office. Below: Singer M.D. Pallavi Below: Arun Kumar on Drums Below: Pramath Kiran Below: Udupa on Ghatam and Jayachandra Rao on Mridangam © Manasa. All rights reserved....