Inspiring Talents, Mesmerizing Performances – Sudha Mukhopadhyay, Odissi Dancer

An evening of solo presentations in Odissi by Sudha, a senior disciple of Smt. Madhavi Mudgal at the India International Centre, Delhi on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 – 6:30pm until 8:00pm

Kindly visit SREENI ON STAGE to enjoy the entire performance – Mangalacharan : Pada Bandey, Hamsadhwani Pallavi – Yahi Madhava; Jhinjhoti Pallavi – Leela Nidhi; and finally Moksha…

You will see this talented dancer for years to come in the firmament of Odissi.

 

The beauty that I have

 

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Photo story series : Ma..Amma..Mutter…Moeder…Majka…Madre…Mom…Mother…

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
~Edwin Hubbell Chapin

 
 
 

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

 
 
 

The pleasure of being a mother, holding the young one, Indira and Svwara

 
 
 

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SHAYAD, Yaheen Se Ho by Satya – Book release, Photo exhibition and musical evening

SHAYAD, Yahee Se Ho by Satya – Book release, Photo exhibition and musical evening, a set on Flickr.

“SHAYAD, YAHEEN SE HO”

by MUASIR (Satya)
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Dr. S Y Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner, Republic of India, releases the book, along with Cricket guru Bishen Singh Bedi, Dance Guru Geeta Chandran, Corporate guru KK Mehta and Satya’s Parents..

The occasion also saw a Photo Exhibition by Sreeni

The poetry of MUASIR was also brought to life through music and Abhinaya by Dancer Renu and Singer Vidhi along with accompanists..

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Satya (Satya Narayanan R) is the Founder Chairman of CL Educate Ltd (formerly Career Launcher) and chairman board of governors – IWSB (Indus World School of Business)

Sreeni (R. Srinivasan) is the Co-Founder of CL Educate and also Director – IWSB.

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About a dozen of the Nazms have been set to music. Two are done by Krishna N and team. Here are the video montages of these..

Emotional Intelligence and Youngsters – My write up for The Hindu Column

· What is the role of emotional intelligence in the character building and career of a student?

People maketh the world. Each one of us will succeed in life only when, we are of value to ourselves and also to people around us – Interacting, understanding, helping, facilitating, motivating, and inspiring. It is all about how we take care of ourselves and also how nurture relationships and mutually excel. This dimension of a human being is nothing but Emotional Intelligence – Personal and interpersonal excellence.

· Are our youngsters emotionally intelligent? Why and where are they falling short?

Our education system has come about being marks centric. So every action or advise to youngsters centers around how to maximize marks, forget about even understanding the subject.

I do a lot of workshops for parents and teachers. One of the basic questions I ask is “What percentage of what you learnt inside the classroom do you apply in your life, and what percentage of what you have learnt in a sport or a theatre do you apply in your life” Invariably people say more than 90% of what they apply in life they learnt outside the classroom, in the sport field or extra-curricular activity.

Unless we do not make the learning application oriented, introspection oriented, collaborative, emotional intelligence will take the back seat and we will have youngsters ill-prepared to face life. Industry will keep saying less than 10% of the graduates are employable!

· What kind of role teachers play in improving the EI of students? How can the EI of students be improved?

It is not about just teachers. It is about entire eco-system. It all starts from home, parents and family. We need to believe in investing time to facilitate inquisitiveness, collaborative and dialogue centric environment. Teachers are part of this very society. We need to find ways of making the learning process interactive and collaborative. The dialogues and arguments that would emerge out of such a process will lay emphasis on every learner to prepare more thoroughly, take stance, hear to others viewpoints, and appreciate and accept counter-arguments, be more open to accommodating and learning.

Exposing children from the school age onwards to things beyond the books, encouraging them to take interest and participate in activities beyond, is the key. Take the class out of the classroom. I am sure teachers can be creative and purposeful in find interesting ways of helping youngsters learn and accomplish their learning outcomes.

Saurabh Arora, that I knew!………. We will miss you Saurabh….

The tall, handsome yet shy, soft spoken, desirous of learning, willingness to put that extra effort, still, with an amount of self doubt, trying to find the better way ahead was Saurabh Arora. Though emotional, as I got to know, his outwardly projection of smile and softness was anti-thesis of his well built physique. He was a gentle-giant.

His desire to improve himself was manifested in his sending his write-ups to me on issues of interest to him, seeking my feedback. He would not let go of it, if I did not respond. Whenever I came back from my tour, the moment he spotted me, he would remind me that he is waiting for the feedback on a particular article that he had sent.

When on Sunday afternoon, I received information about sudden demise of Saurabh, I went through my journey of life of last two years that I have known Saurabh – from my first interaction in Ludhiana to the graduation ceremony at IWSB that I photographed while he was awarded the degree.

I pay my humble respects to his departed soul and also pray to almighty to give all strength to his parents and family to withstand and overcome the grief of the loss. God bless.

Saurabh receiving the degree

Daring to be sitting in front

Saurabh at the batch farewell

Saurabh at the batch farewell

sitting with friends – outbound 2011

helping as always – lifting the bench – outbound 2011

Being at the back, yet supporting

At times sticking his neck out to lead

Ready to tango

I pray that each one us has strength to face the reality and have confidence in oneself.

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option” – gabrielita

Love and peace…

On SREENIViews photoblog – Being abreast with the world!…

Human being has always been curious. Curious about knowing what is happening around the world. Who is behind this story? What could the response now be? Why is it behaving so? why does it look so? what is working as a catalyst? How will the world respond? The questions on who, what, where, when, why and how of every happening are interesting. We want to be aware, analyze with whatever data we have, create our own perceptions and take those decisions….

The messages went across the world using birds – mostly pigeons. Then came the printing press and slowly newspapers came into being. Then television stepped into world to beam films that made knowing the world more interesting and visually appealing. Then came along other forms of media like tapes, CDs, DVDs that made sharing easy. As the world moved into twenty first century, world wide web reached out everything to our desks. The world is at our finger tips. Anytime anywhere is the choice we all have. Now we can peep into any country, city or a colony from the sky, drive through a road looking all around sitting at our desk, even appreciate the art pieces in a museum! The future seems to be even more exciting with possibilities….

For most of us, the early morning cup of coffee with a newspaper in hand is a bliss! Each one eagerly awaits for the newspaper boy to through it every morning and scurry to get it. It is no different in a city, small towns or villages. Every curious human being quenches his thirst of catching up with the world, through the newspapers…..

 
 

Let me catch up! Chor bizaar, Mumbai

 
 
 
 

““Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization””
– George Bernard Shaw

 

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The veggie musicians from CHINA

It is amazing what can result from clubbing of ‘the nature intelligence with musical intelligence’. Watch out these two brothers producing wonders!

On my Photoblog : Work is worship! so they say…..

Whether 19 or 90, the people who excel are those who give everything to whatever they do.

In my journey of life, while on work, I have been very fortunate to have had the camera by my side to capture a great number of people, eminent and also commoners, who are always giving 200% in every aspect of their life. For each one of them, the cause is the almighty and their work is worship! And yes, for a few, worshiping is the work! Though I have been collating this collection, I realized the MAY DAY is apt, to pay tribute to the worker in us!
 

Our life is all about water and firewood. kamshet, Lonavla

 
 

“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”
– Earl Nightingale

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Gallerie Public Spaces – Interesting Social Experiment

Gallerie Public Spaces, a set on Flickr.

This is an experiment and exploration I am doing to enliven public spaces. Unexpected and unbeknown to the regular users of a public space, I curate a painting and photo exhibition in the place, that I study thoroughly to understand its usage by people – place, time of the day and activities. When they come without any expectations and to their surprise find the display of creative works, they are taken in and inspired.

You too try it and find the surprising results. I will write a detailed note with this shortly.

I am going to continue this experiment. I have now plans of creating a mobile gallerie!

Work is worship

Work is worship, a set on Flickr.

Whether 19 or 90, the people who excel are those who give everything to whatever they do.

In my journey of life, I have been very fortunate to have had the camera by my side to capture a great number of people, eminent and also commoners, who are always giving 200% in every aspect of their life. For each one of them, the cause is the almighty and their work is worship.

I managed to put together these inspirations.

The photo essay has come up. Make sure you go through it. You will love it. Work is worship