FOSS.in around the corner
FOSS.in, the premier Open Source Conference happens in Bangalore from the 1st to the 5th of December, 2009 at the brilliant NIMHANS Convention Center. I am part of the organizing committee and I can guarantee that there are a lot of cool things being put together for this to happen. The Call for Speakers was met with a Huge response and we [...]
Continue Reading →Sneha Kapoor
I know of Sneha Kapoor from her twin Neha who I worked with as part of the Musical ‘All shook up’ and before that, 7 brides for 7 brothers with the CAUSE Foundation. Sneha, like her sister is a brilliant dancer and has infact, represented India at the World Salsa Congress etc. I got to see her perform along with the entire dance [...]
Continue Reading →The Pose
Sneha Kapoor is an excellent choreographer based in Bangalore who works with the Lourd Vijay dance academy and is a Salsa dancer of International repute. I saw Sneha and her partner perform this very piece at the Kannada TV awards a couple of months back when I was playing there with The Raghu Dixit Project. But I got to see it again this [...]
Continue Reading →Kathak Feet
On a recent video shoot with Samira Kanwar and the crew from Sutasi, we landed up at a Kathak / Bharathnatyam dance recital in Malleshwaram’s Seva Sadan. This was a very nice Kathak recital that was in progress when we landed up and I managed to get right up to the front of the stage to click this just before it ended
Continue Reading →Moo
I happened to be walking by near Wilson Garden last week and saw this cow eating lunch near a shop on the road side so I went on to try and take some photos of it looking into the camera and I ended up with this! Yes, the guys at the shop having a snack did think I was totally wierd!
Continue Reading →I cast my vote, have you?
My Grandmom is a LONG time voter and this time she was the most enthusiastic among all of us to go cast her vote! So she woke early this morning, got dressed and got all of us to go out and vote! I fully love her enthusiasm in this and her die hard support for the Congress right from the days of Indira Gandhi. So if she can do it, whats stopping [...]
Continue Reading →Pritham on Lights
Pritham handled lights for ‘Woyzeck’, the play I helped with last weekend. He did a fantastic job of it as you can see from some of the pictures. Woyzeck, as a play, depends a LOT on the sound and lights to create various effects that are needed for it. Some of the brilliantly lit scenes that I managed to catch included the green [...]
Continue Reading →Anish and Aashish
Over last weekend, I helped out backstage with the TFA / Rafiki collaborative production, ‘Woyzeck’ directed by Anmol Vellani. It is there that I saw first hand how much preparation and work goes into putting up a theatre production! Its much much harder than a simple band going on stage and playing a show! Anish and Aashish are [...]
Continue Reading →Rangashankara
Rangashankara has become like a Oasis in the desert of Bangalore for theatre lovers and infact I am sure it has enabled a lot of people to take up theatre professionally! What I like about Rangashankara apart from the brilliant facilities that it provides for theatre companies and the lovely space that it is, is the discipline it has inculcated [...]
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