Bharat Sangeet Utsav is an impressive prelude to the Music Season! The zeal and energy of the organizers is something to appreciate. Continuing the utsav in different cities is yet another achievement.So far Bharat Sangeet Utsav is going strong and the event has been conducted in New Delhi,Bangalore,Chennai and now Coimbatore.

Famous musicians like Vijay Siva,Anooradha Sriram,Sriram Parasuram,Nithyasree Mahadevan,Sangita Kalanidhi prof T.N.Krishnan and Viji Krishnan,Udayalur Kalyanaraman performed at the Utsav.

Bharat Sangeet Utsav 2010, Coimbatore

Venue: Kikani Matriculation School, Coimbatore

18th November

5:30 PM: Invocation by Girija Hariharan and party (Devotional music)

6:00 PM: Inauguration by Pujyasri Dayananda Saraswathi Swamiji

6:45 PM: Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Nagai Sriram, Srimushnam Raja Rao, Alathur Rajaganesh

19th November

5:00 PM: Suryaprakash, Amritha Murali, Srimushnam Raja Rao, Alathur Rajaganesh

7:00 PM: Vijay Siva, Amritha Murali, Manoj Siva, Anirudh Athreya

20th November

9:15 AM: Musical presentation by young talents

10:45 AM: Papanasam Ashok Ramani and party

5:00 PM: Anooradha Sriram–Sriram Parasuram and party

7:00 PM: Visakha Hari, Charulatha Ramanujam, H.S. Sudhindhra

21st November

10:30 AM: Maharajapuram Ramachandran, Nagai Muralidharan, Guruvayur Durai, B.S. Purushottam

5:00 PM: Ranjani–Gayathri, M.R. Gopinath, Delhi Sairam

7:00 PM: Sangita Kalanidhi Prof. T.N. Krishnan and Viji Krishnan, Guruvayur Durai, B.S. Purushottam

22nd November

5:00 PM: Thematic dance presentation by Lavanya Sankar; special vocals by Carnatica Brothers K.N. Shashikiran and P. Ganesh

7:00 PM: S. Sowmya, Idappally Ajithkumar, Manoj Siva, K. V. Gopalakrishnan

23rd November

5:00 PM: TBA

7:00 PM: Nithyasree Mahadevan, Raghavendra Rao, Shertalai Ananthakrishnan, Trichy K. Murali

24th November

5:00 PM: Udayalur Kalyanaraman and party

7:00 PM: Lakshman Sruti orchestra

Lots of events are happening in Chennai this season- We’re providing you a list of them, for your reference…

IAMAI Mobile Application Developers’ Meet
Happening on 23rd November at Vel Tech University, IAMAI’s MAD meet is a good opportunity to mobile app developers to showcase their creations, interact with industry leaders and grow. Entry is free
Register here
http://iamai.in/Events/2nd_mobile_application_developer/

Barcamp Chennai 5
The 5th edition of Barcamp Chennai is happening on December 4th at Paypal office in Sholingnallur.

More details here
http://barcampchennai.org

TEDxYouth@Chennai
Another TEDX Event round the corner…. Happening on 20th November at Cognizant Technology Solutions
[Global Delivery Center]
#5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Rd.,
Okkiam Thoraipakkam,
Chennai – 600 096

and tickets are priced at Rs 3000 for general public, Rs 1500 for students.
(similar posts: SAM’s Prasanna at TEDxCHennai)
http://tedxyouthchennai.com/

TiECON CHENNAI 2010

TiECON CHENNAI 2010 represents a breathtaking array of networking and business opportunities along with energizing and thought provoking keynote speakers. What started in Silicon Valley 16 years ago, is now in Chennai for the second successive year, suitably tailored to the challenges of entrepreneurs in India. This all-day event has assembled a list of powerful speakers to deliver keynote addresses and participate in panel discussions covering exciting topics – all aimed at facilitating the creation of tomorrow’s entrepreneur.

Date: 24th November
Venue: Chennai Trade Centre
www.tieconchennai.org/

To give you a break from regular Marg related updates and real estate stuff, let us take a break and look around to see what all is happening in Namma Chennai…

1. Chennai Facebook Developer Garage:With 500 million users and counting, Facebook is the future of online world. An exclusive event for Facebook Developers was organized by BusinessBlogging along with OrangeScape and Intel yesterday at Tidel park, Chennai. Senior Facebook executives David Recordon, Kevin D’ Souza and others shared their perspective and thoughts, guiding budding developers. Next edition will take place on Dec 19, 2010.

Do catch Marg ProperTies on Facebook.

2. Callezee Guru Samarpanam: Local search company Callezee had organized an event called Guru Samarpanam, on the occasion of teachers day at Music Academy. Callezee senior officials felicitated prominent teachers and professors for their contribution to education.

This year the ParamAcharya awards were presented to Prof M.S.Ananth (Education), Prof Dr. S. Kalayanaraman (Medicine), Natyaacharya V. P. Dhananjayan & Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan (Dance), Padma Shri Haridwaramangalam Dr. A. K. Palanivel (Thavil), Kalaimamani S. V. Ramanan (Media) and Sivasankari (Author).

Acharya Awards were presented to P. S. Raman (Law), Sangeetha Choodamani S. Sowmya (Music), Radhika Sarathkumar (Cinema & TV), Bombay Gnanam (Theatre), Dr. Chef. K. Damodaran (Culinary) and D. Jayaraman (Sports). Callezee conducts Guru Samarpanam every year. We join call ezee in wishing the winners. More details here on Callezee Blog

3. TEDX Chennai
2nd Edition of TEDxChennai is scheduled to take place on 10-10-10 at IIT Madras. TED is known worldwide for the quality of speakers. Eminent speakers from different walks of lives share their insights. more details at www.tedxchennai.com/

4. Jagjith Singh Concert, Oct 3 2010
Haven’t you blocked your calendar yet? Oct 3rd will be the day Jagjith singh will be rocking Chennai… More details here

Delegates of NAR who visited Marg Swarnabhoomi yesterday planted trees to spread the greenery…

Satish from Marg ProperTies assisting a guest with tree planting…

The event reminded me of our visit to Swarnabhoomi during Cerebrate… We’d visited Swarnabhoomi and planted a sapling each during the same…

Refer to our flickr stream for more photos

Also visit http://www.margproperties.com/blog/mahayagnam-of-tree-saplings-plantation-at-marg-swarnabhoomi.html

As introduced in our earlier post, next edition of Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam is scheduled for May 29th to 31st, at the Sama Rathi auditorium & Gupta Hall at the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago (HTGC), Lemont, IL.

Address; 10915 Lemont Road, Lemont, IL, United States‎ – (630) 972-0300‎

Its a must attend community event for all Carnatic music lovers who’re settled far away from their mother land. So be sure to mark your calendar and be there this month end.

Main attractions of this year’s edition of CTU are:
May 29th:
* Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram (8:00am)
* Chetulaara on instruments (children) (8:55am)
* Pancharatnam (9:00am)
* Nauka Charitram (10:30 AM)
* Homage to Tyagaraja (Teacher Sessions, Groups and Individual Sessions)

May 30th:
* Homage to Tyagaraja (Accompanied Performances) (8:30am)
* Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal) (2:00 pm)
* Vijay Siva (Vocal) (6:00pm)

May 31st:
*Children’s Utsava Sampradaya Kritis procession (9:00 AM)
*Prince Rama Varma of Travancore (Vocal) (1:00pm)
*Chitravina N Ravikiran (5:00pm)

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Here’s the map to the venue:

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