Thyagaraja Araadhana

Well, as most of us know.. TAP for the first time was extended into a 3 day fest. The first 2 days had individual concerts by the present third yearites -- they were under the banner SAMARPANAM. Frankly speaking i did notice that the ind of response that raag recieved this semester for concerts such as SAMARPANAM and RANJINI have been great. These 3 years i ve never seen 2219 this full. Most of u might remember how it was when we came up with KALADHARA. The crowd was that good. :)

Coming to the songs, on the first day we had Archna Ramana (ninne bajana and nadha thanumanisham) , Shankar (gaanamoorthe, padhavini, anuragamule,sarsa saama dhaana) and subha (o ranga sai and nannu kana thalli). The concert lasted for a lil more than an hour and we had a couple of profs making special mentions about how wonderful the concert was.

On the second day we had manojh (rama nannu brovara , raga rathna), NIVEDITA ( nivi -- thank me for the correct spelling ;) -- she sang bhavanuta and nee daya radha) Jupup (manavyaalakin, merusamaana and durmarga ) and samisana (inthamodhu , aada modi galadhey)

"TA" happened on the third day as an usual routine. With all the girls lookin nice in the sarees and teh guys in traditional costumes... we took close to 200 snaps in various combinations. To name a few of the vetti senti that we put -- we had a CBSE snap(that was taken twice - thanks to ganesh and his camera shy nature :P ) , neyveli snap -- (which was a manojh solo ), non chennai ites snap - A7 senti snap - ( jus realised there are jus 7 of us as well -- nice coincidence! )

AN-i do-ers snap (kari we missed u terribly! :-( ) , the usual all guys snap ---

chain snap (this was with all the people who borrowed some of my jewellery :P ) , silk saree snap (arjun's brilliant brainwave) ,

then there were 1st row snaps and 2nd row snaps and instrumentalists snap ( i clicked both these!!! :B)-

and a 2k3 batch snap thats shaken ( x( ) !!!!

Anyways all s well that ends well.

We guys went bck to our messes for lunch and resumed pracs for sangamam -- THE NEXT BIG thing at 1.30. The only room open for us was 2219 -- was good fun with great memories abt pracz session for our first sangamam -- better known as the AALAA sangamam :-) )

The room... actually whole of fd 2 was resonating with the voice of raag. Its been that way for teh past one month now. I should say that it feels on top of the world and really really wonderful when u walk thru the rearmost corridorr of FD2 between 5 and 11 in the night -- cos we have so many raag activities happening all at once. in 2212 -- the third yearites were having samarpanam pracs. 2214 - was dance pracs. 2217 -- veena players were picking up their songs. RAAG room - big time composition was happening. and in the corridorr right below there was backdrop work happening.

And never did it feel like WORK WORK WORk. Its been fun meeting up everyday -- and well we did hear this news... that when the dept and club heads were taken on a tour to the SAC building -- for those of u who do not know -- SAC is a new construction on campus -- STUDENTS ACTIVITY CENTRE. its got a mini auditorium .. somethng like an amphi theatre -- ppl say -- and around 7 wings with slightly huge rooms (Around 4 in each wing) to be alloted for clubs and depts.... coming back to what i started off wth -- it is bein said that there is one wing for music club and raag. I hear that the inauguration is by end of feb = cos the Birla's are comin or something and SAC will be ready for occupancy from next sem itself.

At the very thought now, i somehow prefer our own fd2 to the new room at SAC. anyways -- we never know. things change and people get used to it i guess. Apu Vishwa Loki and the rest of u. get to campus for sangamam plz plz plz plz plz.....!!! i shall try n add u as members of this blog .. soon. i guess its possible. mail me ur blog id's alone. would require them .. and the e-mails u ve mentioned at the time of creating ur blog accnt.

as far as sangamam is concerned... choreo and composition are almost over. major integratioon of the pieces work is to happen. We are aiming at a dead line of 10/2/06. lets c!