Artistes and some interesting information about them.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 03 Apr 2009, 03:06

nick H wrote:I've always thought of Arasi as a youngster, and continue to do so now I know her.

Me too!

I was disabused of the idea that the 'spring song-bird' was a female within a few weeks of joining the erstwhile sangeetham bulletin board, so, thankfully, I did not get to form any wrong mental images of him!

If you think VK's name is an exercise in gender bending, you should note our Sarmaji's plight when he started receiving marriage proposals from men because he had used the first word of his favorite kriti in kalgaDa as his screen name!:lol: He very quickly changed his screen name to kalgaDa. Talking of Sarmaji, I wonder how he's doing. I have not seen him online for quite a while.

Bilahari, Meena is a lady, and lives on your side of the country.

Nick, we are only as old as we feel...So, I think Bilahari is spot-on about your age! :=

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 03 Apr 2009, 03:31

I vaguely remember now my thought process in picking the id when I first signed up at sangeetham.com. I looked around the various id names used and I saw quite a few musician names ( chembai, mdr etc. ) and raga names. I had once named one of my compuers bhairavi, I thought I will go with an artist for a change. I figured I will use the singer who was my gateway to CM, without thinking about the gender-bending consequences

which came to surface almost right away. I could have picked something else when we moved over here to rasikas but thought that will break the continuity and all that stuff about reintroductions to the familiar crowd.

In some cases, the imagery we associate with people is based on some people we know in the brick & mortar world with a similar name. This has happened in work situations where I had only talked with people over the phone for a long time and deveoped a mental image of them. Of course, most often, it does not match when you see them in person.

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 03 Apr 2009, 06:15

bilahari wrote: Suji Ram a teenager, ?).

he he,... is it because I sound musically inexperienced? :-

ganesh_mourthy · Post by **ganesh_mourthy** » 03 Apr 2009, 07:15

If you think VK's name is an exercise in gender bending, you should note our Sarmaji's plight when he started receiving marriage proposals from men because he had used the first word of his favorite kriti in kalgaDa as his screen name!:lol: He very quickly changed his screen name to kalgaDa. Talking of Sarmaji, I wonder how he's doing. I have not seen him online for quite a while.
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R.Shankar, I dont understand that at all.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 03 Apr 2009, 07:36

G_M,

The song is 'parvati ninnu' - it was Sarma's favorite, IIRC. So he registered as 'parvati', and men started to write to 'her' to discuss marriage!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Apr 2009, 07:56

You young thing! I have to walk a long way backwards to catch up with you!

Bilahari,
Since I have seen your picture (pity, missed seeing you in Chennai), I have an idea. Age apart, you imagine folks in a particular way and they look very different. Krishna (ksrimech) with all his erudition in vaishnavite literature and his knowledge in music made me add thirty years to his age! Though I know VK and and Ravi, they both looked very different from what I had imagined them to be when I first met them. Cool, Gobilalitha, Ramaraj and others of course, I had their pictures to go by. When we first met Lakshman (and his wife), though we had not seen him, we knew his brother and the resemblance was there.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 03 Apr 2009, 08:34

Maybe we need to change the name of this thread to 'rasika members and some interesting information about them'!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Apr 2009, 08:42

Exactly what I was thinking!

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 03 Apr 2009, 10:38

Murphy's law of Internet forums

"Any thread beyond 20 posts will digress"

ganesh_mourthy · Post by **ganesh_mourthy** » 03 Apr 2009, 10:40

rshankar

who is that you are referrring as sarma. is it akella ?

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 03 Apr 2009, 15:23

Yes -
sarma = akella = parvati = ?

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 03 Apr 2009, 15:26

rajumds wrote:Murphy's law of Internet forums

"Any thread beyond 20 posts will digress"

The only exception being the Hilarity thread, of course!
(the two percussion vidwans are guiding it along quite nicely)

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 03 Apr 2009, 16:44

Sarma is not Sri Akella, but another of our talented artist-members who used to be fairly active in the early days - his screen name was kalgaDa...

ganesh_mourthy · Post by **ganesh_mourthy** » 03 Apr 2009, 18:55

by the by what is MEMBER FIRST?

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Apr 2009, 20:29

This came about when a few members were annoyed with the moderators (who are the ones who work hard on the forum) and made them resort to this self-effacing title to say: we are all members first. They still have to work hard while others have fun...

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 04 Apr 2009, 14:45

you should note our Sarmaji's plight when he started receiving marriage proposals from men because he had used the first word of his favorite kriti in kalgaDa as his screen name

Hmm, didn't realize members here were 'men of action'! You mean to say they started contacting him just because his id sounded female?
I wonder how many other female members (or at least members with female-sounding ids) have received similar advances.

Naughty, naughty...
(And here I was, thinking forum members were all paavam, 'god-fearing' types!)

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 04 Apr 2009, 18:27

ragam-talam wrote:Naughty, naughty...
(And here I was, thinking forum members were all paavam, 'god-fearing' types!):)

R-T: I would get that tongue off your cheek ASAP, otherwise, it might form an 'unholy' misalliance! =)

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 04 Apr 2009, 18:55

...And it never occurred to me to propose marriage to any fellow forumites!

(I never received any proposals, either

)

.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 04 Apr 2009, 19:55

Suji, it was your unbridled enthusiasm with music (i.e. DRS's compositions, violin techniques, swara gnyanam discussions, etc) that made me associate you with a teenager!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 04 Apr 2009, 19:56

Honestly, isn't it highly strange to be proposing over an internet forum where none of us really knows each other? A bit creepy, methinks.

ganesh_mourthy · Post by **ganesh_mourthy** » 04 Apr 2009, 20:55

Hi Nick,

In India it is usually the men who proposes to women

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 04 Apr 2009, 22:12

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 04 Apr 2009, 22:18

Bilahari, Yes! A problem suffered by many forums is the incidence of mails received by female members that, at their most innocent, say "Hello, how are you, I'd like be your friend".

g_m... I have noticed that Indian women are, in some ways, more forward and more direct than those in my own culture!

Err... perhaps we ought to get back to musicians...

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 04 Apr 2009, 23:47

rshankar wrote:R-T: I would get that tongue off your cheek ASAP, otherwise, it might form an 'unholy' misalliance! =)

Nope, mine was not a tongue-in-cheek remark at all.
I was quite surprised (shocked?) to hear about the goings-on here.
Especially here.
Oh well...

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 04 Apr 2009, 23:56

I had never imagined that it would happen very much here!

It seems that some men have nothing better to do than to hang around internet forums all day.

Oh. <Blush>

.

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 05 Apr 2009, 00:44

Nick, what's with all the empty space in your posts of late?
A new style?
(do let us know if it works!

)

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 05 Apr 2009, 07:18

Regarding names in the forum, Once I received a marriage proposal from a girl, because she found out from my posts that our interests were similar, How i wish I had accepted her offer!!!gobilalitha

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2009, 08:49

GBL,
Good that you didn't. At the very outset she would have found out that your assumed name is really that of your wife and that the prefix is for the town she hails from!

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 05 Apr 2009, 17:26

Not only that .My astrologer's prediction that saturn is enimically positioned in my horoscope, may even warrant a possible sojourn behind the bars!!! gobilalitha

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 05 Apr 2009, 17:43

ragam-talam wrote:Nick, what's with all the empty space in your posts of late?
A new style?
(do let us know if it works! )

In that last instance, it was

parenthetical!

.

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 05 Apr 2009, 18:45

Your honour! Note the piont!

(Neg?)Eligible bachelors are not getting any e-proposals!

e-nagaraj.

(mohan, i think i have pulled this thread back to topic!

)

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 05 Apr 2009, 20:04

Am I glad I never posted in this thread

R-T/rajumds/Arun would have taken me to the cleaners for the irrelevance

.. and I don't have the stomach for another 'grovelling' apology though I am sure cool will stand by me

By the by did Vijay find his soul-mate?

ganesh_mourthy · Post by **ganesh_mourthy** » 05 Apr 2009, 20:27

Ahaa! this thread has become a total saturday evening country club meet , exchanging pleasantries. But I like it

If members dont find my quesiton insipid, ( sorry for digressing and taking to the thread head)- we all know that MSG was exceptional in both Hindustani and Carnatic. A rare blend. But are there anyone in his family line doing hindustani concerts? Narmada , Sundareswaran, Krishnaswamy...?
I once remember seeing in hindu schedule , a hindustani concert by m.a.krishnaswamy . Could it be this krishnaswamy of anantharaman's son?

Sathej · Post by **Sathej** » 05 Apr 2009, 20:35

Yes, MA Krishnaswamy performs Hindusthani concerts at times. Narmada too has given quite a few Hindusthani recitals.

Sathej

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 05 Apr 2009, 22:44

erode14 wrote:Eligible bachelors are not getting any e-proposals!

e-nagaraj.

Hmm, e-rode14 is not getting any e-nquiries, even though he is an e-ligible bachelor!

Methinks we now have two hilarity threads...this one and the real one!
(plus one of the percussion maestros has already started playing here...!)

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 05 Apr 2009, 22:46

ganesh_mourthy wrote:Ahaa! this thread has become a total saturday evening country club meet , exchanging pleasantries. But I like it

This has been the fate of so many other threads in the past...
Sort of a tradition around here!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 05 Apr 2009, 23:08

ragam-talam wrote:You mean to say they started contacting him just because his id sounded female?
Naughty, naughty...
(And here I was, thinking forum members were all paavam, 'god-fearing' types!)

r-t, let me cast this in a different light. CM listening, bhakthi and such match making are fully compatible. Especially Krishna related bhakthi soaked in CM is so compatible, who can truthfully say 'God is no fun' !!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 05 Apr 2009, 23:14

Way back we debated a proposal to include our pictures in the profile (which may cut down multiple ID problems). Should we resurrect it (which may be helpful for the eligible bachelors/spinsters

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 05 Apr 2009, 23:24

I support the move

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 06 Apr 2009, 00:58

cmlover wrote:Way back we debated a proposal to include our pictures in the profile (which may cut down multiple ID problems). Should we resurrect it (which may be helpful for the eligible bachelors/spinsters

i sapot(a) too.. (hot issue)

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 06 Apr 2009, 01:29

cmlover wrote:which may be helpful for the eligible bachelors/spinsters

CML - 'spinster' has negative connotations. Better choice is 'single woman'

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 06 Apr 2009, 05:27

R-T
even 'single woman' has a negative connotation. The appropriate word is 'kanyA' - no equivalent in english (the word 'maiden' comes close but is not exact!)

At any rate, now that it is officially spring, if the 'pancabANa' is aiming through the Forum - best of luck to him from us elders

- as long as VK/coolkarni/arasi are not targetted due to their high profiles...

(but don't spare the webmaster

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 06 Apr 2009, 06:28

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 06 Apr 2009, 06:59

You'll have to:)
You perhaps don't realize your potential since some of the pics that we have at this Forum proclaim you to be a targetted 'heart-throb' for the 'spinsters'. (let not meenakshi see this post