Saturday, November 13, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Concert - Aruna Sairam
- http://www.mediafire.com/?re1pjpewlx190e3 Nera nammidhi - Kaanada
- http://www.mediafire.com/?m32cmie3veou0hu Aanandhaamrutha - Amruthavarshini
- http://www.mediafire.com/?s1r1r43qn4ztglw Muruga muruga - Saaveri
- http://www.mediafire.com/?pob47q52fsmf5jv Saama gaana lola - Hindolam
- http://www.mediafire.com/?6cb69o27hj2agld Upacharamulanu - Bhairavi
- http://www.mediafire.com/?5ewk7foiof2o0h6 Ambujaakshi - Neelambari
- http://www.mediafire.com/?qazj9ogwz7g161z Nekkurugi unnai - Aabhogi
- http://www.mediafire.com/?039966b13jxoamp Ashta raagamalika
- http://www.mediafire.com/?6tvbbinilx62988 Krishna nee - Yamuna kalyaani
- http://www.mediafire.com/?hbhoc8r0vyq42li Kaaranam kettu - Poorvikalyaani
- http://www.mediafire.com/?v9n4242qzxxaw2c Pandari nivasa - Abhang
- http://www.mediafire.com/?822wtrg24nj957e Chiththam eppadiyo - Raagamalika
- http://www.mediafire.com/?0jlqnzccn4a18cq Vallikanavan perai
- http://www.mediafire.com/?i8hl9ax35rgi5c5 Yen palli kondeer - Raagamalika
- http://www.mediafire.com/?aq855s7z3ajd5vz Thillaana
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vaidyanathan said... - very many thanks for uploading aruna sayeeram's concert, replacing tm krishna's concert.
hvaidya said...- I did not do anything. From the beginning it is only Aruna Sairam's concert only.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
One minute painting
I requested my daughter to teach me to upload some of the videos, I have in my hard disc to enable you all to see . She took this one minute drawing for demonstration to save time. We then rushed to station to drop her and I forgot to erase this demonstration. I did not even given any title, and not created label also.
By the time I came back I found already appreciation comment on this from Ms. Vaishnavi. Next day early morning, I left for Tanjore and came only today. The whole day was hectic and I did not open my blog site at all. Now I found another appreciation from my good friend Mr. Rbs. Seeing the response and liking , I decided to keep this as posting.
Blogger vaishnavi said...
great
November 9, 2010 7:57 PM
By the time I came back I found already appreciation comment on this from Ms. Vaishnavi. Next day early morning, I left for Tanjore and came only today. The whole day was hectic and I did not open my blog site at all. Now I found another appreciation from my good friend Mr. Rbs. Seeing the response and liking , I decided to keep this as posting.
Hi appa!!
Blogger vaishnavi said...
great
November 9, 2010 7:57 PM
- r b subramanian said...
- Amazing rbs
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Concert - Alathur Brothers
- http://www.mediafire.com/?r88ueahqu66ju4d Raama nee pai - Kedaram
- http://www.mediafire.com/?7p6ea6hh4hyf6cr Ambaa paradevathe - Rudrapriya
- http://www.mediafire.com/?728ndvticgp04bd Devadeva Jagadeeswara - Poorvikalyaani
- http://www.mediafire.com/?86a99zc98qt72js Endukudaya - Thodi
- http://www.mediafire.com/?9n0i4rky91405ge Endundi vedalithivo - Durbar
- http://www.mediafire.com/?kzvyjstxfxr34ea Saanthamuleka - Saama and Thani
- http://www.mediafire.com/?db40kbajae5ca91 RTP - Shanmugapriya
- http://www.mediafire.com/?o3za90uk229orn5 Thiruppugazh
- http://www.mediafire.com/?0csnk10051o8hr2 ...........
- http://www.mediafire.com/?4uitarcebi94bh8 Chandrasekara - Sindhubairavi
- http://www.mediafire.com/?bz1vdfc7473o949 Thillaana and Mangalam
Concert - T.M.Krishna (2004)
Download 01_Intha_Chaalamu_Begada_Varnam_Adi (1).mp3
Download 02_Vaathapi_Ganapathim_Hamsadhwani_Adi.mp3
Download 03_O_Jagadamba_Anandabhairavi_Misra_chapu.mp3
Download 04_Sri_Kanthimathim_Hemavathi_Adi.mp3
Download 05_Rajuvedala_Thodi_Rupakam.mp3
Download 06_Krishna_Nee_Begane_YamunaKalyani_Adi.mp3
Download 07_Jaanaro_Khamas_Adi_Javali.mp3
Download 08_Mangalam.mp3
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- vaidyanathan said...
- i find the concert is of shri tm krishna (and not that of ms aruna sayeeram) which is also very good. cd u kindly look into it and upload aruna sayeeram's concert.
thanks in advance,
wbr
vaidyanathan
- hvaidya said...
- What is this?
Saturday, November 6, 2010
An appeal
Dear friends,
This is the mail I received from one of the readers of the blog. Please try to help in her endeavour to trace the details about her Grand father. Even today, a new follower of my blog is a Sanskrit teacher from Kerala. Let us try to help her.
Good morning Mr. Hariharan Vaidayanathan
I am emailing you from Canada. I just spent a little while reading your website on Tamil scholars. Wonderful site; lots of information. I thought it might be okay to email you about my grandfather.
I have spent the last few days trying to learn a bit more about my grandfather who was a famous Sanskrit scholar and English Professor from Kerala. He died in the early 1970s. I had met him on numerous occasions……always realizing that he was someone important. No one in my family seems to know much about him, professionally. Are you able to help me fill in the blanks on his life.
Here is what I have pieced together so far:
· His name = Shri Doraiswamy Shastri (his older family members called him Krishna)
· Died = mid 1970s; was in his 60s
· Palghat Brahmin – lived in Palghat
· Family were wealthy landowners – lost it all during the 1950s land repatriation in Kerala.
· Had two Masters or doctorates – one in Sanskrit; the other in English
· Was Chancellor of some universities in India and Ceylon (don’t know which ones)
· Was guru to Birla family
· Was speechwriter/advisor to Smt. Bhandarnayake, ex-PM of Sri Lanka
· Was invited often to speak at Sri Shankaracharya Muddam in Kalady;
· Also, in later life toured India speaking about Shankaracharya’s teachings.
· Died = mid 1970s; was in his 60s
· Palghat Brahmin – lived in Palghat
· Family were wealthy landowners – lost it all during the 1950s land repatriation in Kerala.
· Had two Masters or doctorates – one in Sanskrit; the other in English
· Was Chancellor of some universities in India and Ceylon (don’t know which ones)
· Was guru to Birla family
· Was speechwriter/advisor to Smt. Bhandarnayake, ex-PM of Sri Lanka
· Was invited often to speak at Sri Shankaracharya Muddam in Kalady;
· Also, in later life toured India speaking about Shankaracharya’s teachings.
Apparently, when he died there was a huge obituary write-up in Kerala newspapers. No one seems to have a copy.
I am not sure how to track down more information about him. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Meena
Come on friends. Let us do it
murphy said...Dear Sir
Pranams.
Ananthakodi namaskarams for sharing almost all cartanic songs.Only very few have the broadmindedness.Lot of have boxes of old carnatic cassets donot know how to upload or conver to mp3.
once again thanks a lot.
TO THE APPEAL
Meena
u can traceout ur Grandfather.
Please fwd this message to guruvayoorapan yahoo group web site where lots of sanskrit learned people are inter acting.Some other family mempers name also u can refer
I too try to make the copy ,paste of this message to the gruop
all the best
poorni
My diary 6th November 2010
Dear friends,
Hope you will recollect my appeal on 7th Septemeber, 2010 under this head, for certain files missing from "mediafire" and also due to one of my hard disc which got corrupted and lost all my back ups. Few have sent me links, but they could not be used, because they simply forwarded the links, without sending them through either mediafire or rapidshare or any other on line link.
Hence I could not upload them again. Now also two files from Concert No 62, two files bearing Nos.11 and 13 are missing and they are not available in my back up also. Can I request the readers who have downloaded the missing files, to send them again to me through "on line links" to enable me to download them and then re post?
I will be very grateful, if the readers help me in this connection and not only me but also many like you who are not able to have access to these files.
Please help me to help others.
- r b subramanian said...
- Dear Sir,
In your uploads, concert No.62 represents MSA_MSG duet. If this is correct, kindly confirm so as to enable me to provide a copy of the same, since I had downloaded it earlier.
Regards
Rbs
- hvaidya said...
- Yes. Mr. Rbs. You are right. If you could send the same as mediafire link or rapidshare, I will be grateful
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Concert - Ganesh Kumaresh
- http://www.mediafire.com/?pdpadrlm97cbvst Introduction
- http://www.mediafire.com/?wq1ik0qgzi5oe7s Introduction 2
- http://www.mediafire.com/?hy677kr96yc9n3i Budhamaashrayaami - Naattaikurinji
- http://www.mediafire.com/?pva3o0muh59orqn Introduction
- http://www.mediafire.com/?zjzb2zt2w4c8byj Evaruraa - Mohanam
- http://www.mediafire.com/?g6l78b6gg0ibh6f Introduction
- http://www.mediafire.com/?myt6tsmn2kz5d92 Vandanamu - Sahaanaa
- http://www.mediafire.com/?3b5z85kgulkp8s5 Introduction
- http://www.mediafire.com/?535jro2cuxmxxy0 Raghuvara - Panthuvarali
- http://www.mediafire.com/?vgk2mm3n8yp47ijConclusion
- Viswanathan Villa53 said...
- Dear Mr Hari HAPPY DEEPAVALI 135 G&K Item 07 Sahana Unable to open/download. You may look into this at your convenience Regards VViswanathan
hvaidya said...Dear Mr. Viswanthan,
It is opening. Please try again. If the problem persists, let me know.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
When are we going to get anger?
The recent events in Karnataka showed how easy it is to take over or destabilise a government. MLAs are available for sale for Rs 25 crore each.
They are ever willing to travel with you anywhere, as long it is a five-star resort. Have they visited their constituency lately?
Having seen the government as an IAS officer and worked on three State budgets quite closely, I have worked out how profitable the Government can be for any investor.
While the Tata-Corus deal was over Rs 36,000 crore, they could have acquired the Government of Karnataka for just Rs 2,825 crore by buying 113 MLAs. Another Rs 1,000 crore might have had to be doled out to mid-term dissidents and other contingency expenses. For such investment, the returns from bribes are fabulous. Even Warren Buffet cannot match it.
How do politicians make money? Most States usually spend substantial portion of their budgets on irrigation, power and roads. Table 1 summarises the budget for major departments in Karnataka. They release crores to the district and village level panchayats for schemes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Finally, the real goldmine is the slew of government positions that are almost auctioned in a transfer game.
Table 2 summarises the sitting ducks that can be targeted for transfer. How else can you explain the fact that the Chief Minister of Karnataka retains most of the transfer powers, instead of delegating them to the respective heads of department?
IRRIGATION AND POWER
Consider irrigation projects. On the one hand, politicians get all the accolades for rural development. They also get to collect 15-25 per cent on all capital works. Most contractors are happy to shell out speed money. Most of these projects usually do not attract any undue press coverage, like the Commonwealth Games did.
Roads are yet another treasure-chest. The smaller village roads can sometimes yield 90 per cent margins. Some village roads are not really built at all — rather, some red soil is spread around to close a few potholes, with the hope that the rains won't wash them away till inspection. If you really lay the road properly, the material cost goes up. Politicians are lucky that NGOs and self-styled activists at the Central level prescribe almost zero material costs and a higher proportion of labour.
Power sector subsidies often equal the State's fiscal deficits. The subsidies are actually meant for poor farmers, who seldom get electricity for more than six hours a day. But power theft by politicians' favourites is often included in the farm sector's T&D losses.
Next, the purchase of substandard transformers and replacing them is a money spinner. The vendors often co-operate to show false replacement. Transformer replacement in Karnataka is remarkably high. Most power purchase files often go up all the way to the Minister, even though the Department has several talented officers.
LAND DEALS
Politicians love land. The Bangalore Development Authority has notified land acquisitions for thousands of acres over the last two decades. It could have paid the market price and taken possession. However, it did not have the money and has abandoned all those projects.
The area is now well-developed and worth crores. The land-owners cannot sell it without de-notification.
When the government found that some were selling, they came out with the Karnataka Land Transfer Restriction Act, 1991, to declare such sales a criminal offence. No wonder that, for the last many years, while all the cities in the State have been with one minister, Bangalore always stays with the Chief Minister.
Construction permits and land registration are yet another big source of money. About 12 million sq ft of new concrete is built in Bangalore alone, every year. Karnataka has over 18 cities where real estate is booming.
While the stamp duty and registration charges could be 7.5 per cent, the bribes can be at least 1 per cent. The Government collects over Rs 3,500 crore in official revenues. This implies that bribes could be close to Rs 500 crore.
Politicians often use the local language excuse and stipulate the vernacular medium of instruction for all new schools. At the same time, they allow the managements to run English medium schools, which most parents demand. The threat of disqualification after inspections means endless money every year from private school managements.
The Gandhian philosophy on prohibition comes in handy to ban new bar licences. Those who want licences can only get it from the old licencees at a huge premium. Of course, they must share a bit with the Excise Department.
This technique is not unique to Karnataka. Many European countries, such as Greece, are better at it in other sectors.
TRANSFER GAMES
Transfer of officials is a big business. Some, like teachers, are a low-margin-high-volume game. Over a third of three lakh teachers can be transferred every year, but cannot fetch more than Rs 10,000 each. Just a few forest officials in the Bellary mining area can yield a crore. PWD engineers and commercial tax officials are all-time favourites and can also fetch sums in crores.
A lowly, yet very powerful official in the government, is the accounts superintendent, who writes government cheques and earns just Rs 15,000 a month, but whose transfer is usually worth a crore. Many of them manage recommendations from five to eight MLAs at the time of transfer.
Food for the poor is money for politicians. Even though the Planning Commission claims that just 30 per cent of the population is below the poverty line, many States show more than 100 per cent. More cards mean more ration money that can be swindled. Ration-shops are doled out to village level political functionaries. I am not sure if the UID program will make any dent in these practices.
The problem with our poverty schemes is not technology, nor the problem of identifying the poor, but the lack of political will to tackle corruption. The Right to Food programme will mean more money available for illegal distribution.
Conservative estimates show that, if all possibilities are implemented, a State government the size of Karnataka should yield Rs 3,000 crore per year. Compared to the investment, the payback is just above one year. Considering five-year cash flows, and one mid-term destabilisation costing Rs 1,000 crore, the IRR works out to 175 per cent. Politicians have become lethal businessmen.
(The author is a former IT Secretary, Government of Karnataka, and Founder Managing Director, Brickwork)
Sent by Mr. Bhaskaran
- BHASKARAN said...
- Almost everyone will get agitated on see this. Just read the following mail: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venkat Sekhar Subramaniam Date: 2 November 2010 21:20 Cc: BHASKARAN SHIVARAMAN To all my friends, Former IT Sec of Karnataka has talked about an interesting story at Karnataka..What about other states? I happened to see an AC attendent in Chennai Mumbai mail minting money by sitting on the oher side of the Pantry car which is the partition between AC and Non AC wings where his duty is expected to sit on the side facing AC compartments to attend the needs of AC passengers.. He started collecting money from unreserved free for all unreserved passengers from the Sleeper class side and started collecting money from them at Rs 10/- per person by making them sit on the rest bench provided on the pantry car.I made him to close the door seperating Sleeper compartment partition..If this is the condition of an AC Attendent what about our poltiicians?One can't imagine where this country is going to land.. in what form..
- deva said...
- I like this article. We have been talking for a longtime. But have we taken any measure to prevent them from doing this? Somebody (including me) in the country should stand up instead of reading the article and waiting for someone make a change :(
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