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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Philip the Painter

Date: August 22, 2008 Categories: Potraits, Travel Comments: No Comments Share:

I met Philip in one of the markets in Dimapur. He had heard about the Raghu Dixit Project having come to play a show in Dimapur and he said he like our kind of music. He then took me to his shop and showed me all the painting work he does in his shop. He was really lovely and I decided I should give him a CD of the band’s music which [...]

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In Focus!

Date: August 22, 2008 Categories: Potraits, Travel Comments: No Comments Share:

This is one from the archives, I took this photo in Dimapur during the Roots Festival tour. I just loved the light and the smile this kid had!

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Cast in Gold

Date: August 22, 2008 Categories: Travel Comments: No Comments Share:

Some of the statues that adorn the streets of London. I fell in love with this one especially against the typical London cloudy sky! Maybe I went a little overboard with the processing! but I wanted that gold to be seen!!

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Noel in the light

Date: August 19, 2008 Categories: Friends Comments: No Comments Share:

Noella was the first singer for Phenom when I had joined college and started playing for the band. Over the years, we have grown to become wonderful friends and she has continued being the “Momma” of the group After a very long hiatus from the music scene, she is back again on a very interesting music project that I am part of [...]

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Our Song :)

Date: August 19, 2008 Categories: Misc Comments: 2 Comments Share:

So after years of searching and debating, Shilpa and I found our song .. for the moment! we’ve found many such songs, but this one we’re learning to sing a duet for etc .. so here goes ..

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The Happy Couple

Date: August 17, 2008 Categories: Family, Potraits Comments: No Comments Share:

After all the photographing I did, Kalyan sat Shilpa and me down on the swing in the Taj Gateway hotel and clicked this gem!! This is by far the prettiest picture of the two of us together!!

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Ferocious

Date: August 17, 2008 Categories: Art, Travel Comments: No Comments Share:

The lion outside the Mysore palace built as symbolic guardians to the palace. These were so wonderfully carved that they actually look quite ferocious!

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The Real Music Director

Date: August 16, 2008 Categories: Friends, Music, On-Stage Comments: No Comments Share:

Premila is the actual music director! even though I am credited with the title, she knows the music through and through when we start out practicing. But she has way too much on her hands to take care of during the musical and so I handle the sync with the script and the actors. She is an amazing person, an excellent pianist and a very good [...]

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Independence Day!

Date: August 15, 2008 Categories: Misc Comments: 1 Comment Share:

For some odd reason, tonight, I was sitting and watching Channel [V]‘s feature on ‘Rock On’, the new Farhan Akthar movie about being rock musicians in India, a topic that is dear to my heart. And after an Ad break, a message, “Please Stand Up for the National Anthem” came up in bold on the TV! Now in most cases, [...]

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WordPress.com goes down?!

Date: August 13, 2008 Categories: Work Comments: 1 Comment Share:

And all of a sudden today, wordpress.com stopped working for me! I kept getting an error message “not site admin” on any wordpress.com page. And whats more .. the page source shows NO HTML, NO NOTHING!! Anyone have any idea what the issue is? *UPDATE* – So there was an issue! and it was because of a bad code check-in!   [...]

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