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Sangarsh 2008
Sangarsh is an annual fund-raising musical concert organised by Rotaract club of College of Engineering, Guindy, CEG, Anna University, Chennai. Sangarsh is focused at aiding the needy sections of the society. Many eminent playback singers have made their presence over the years. Actor Kamal Haasan was the patron for Sangarsh'11. Oscar-winning Music Director A.R.Rahman was the patron of Sangarsh'12. Veteran actor Prakash Raj and actor Srikanth (Tamil actor, born 1979), Srikanth were the patrons for Sangarsh'13. Background Sangarsh has been conducted by the Rotaract Club of College of Engineering, Guindy students as an initiative to help the needy parts of society from 2003. Editions ;Sangarsh 2003 Six motor vehicles were given to disabled staff & students of Anna University. ;Sangarsh 2004 Through a play by Crazy Mohan a dramatist in Tamil Nadu 50,000 rupees fund raised and which was then donated to Adyar Cancer Institute, Cancer Institute at Adyar (Chennai), Adyar. ;Sangarsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by foreign tourists. It was rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home
A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be performed such as sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene as well as providing spaces for work and leisure such as remote working, studying and playing. Physical forms of homes can be static such as a house or an apartment, mobile such as a houseboat, trailer or yurt or digital such as virtual space. The aspect of ‘home’ can be considered across scales; from the micro scale showcasing the most intimate spaces of the individual dwelling and direct surrounding area to the macro scale of the geographic area such as town, village, city, country or planet. The concept of ‘home’ has been researched and theorized across disciplines – topics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan (born 19 November 1985) is an Indian playback singer. She has received four Filmfare Awards South for Best Female Playback Singer, one Kerala State Film Award and one Tamil Nadu State Film Award. She has recorded more than 700 songs and albums in all the four south Indian languages namely Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, she has also recorded songs for Hindi films and has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema. Personal life Shweta Mohan was born on 19 November 1985 to a Malayali family in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is the daughter of Krishna Mohan and playback singer Sujatha Mohan. She completed her schooling at Good Shepherd Convent, Chennai and graduated from Stella Maris College, Chennai.A timeless melody She is married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjith (singer)
Ranjith K. Govind (born 21 February 1977), also known as K.G. Ranjith, is an Indian playback singer, working in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada film industries and has sung more than 2500 songs. Early life Ranjith was born in Chennai, India into a Malayali family, hailing from Kalluvazhi, Kerala. He grew up listening to various kinds of music. He used to stay in a locality where there were many Keralites, and had a chance to participate in the local programs there. Later, a family friend suggested that he be trained in classical music. He learned Hindustani music and Carnatic music. He was trained by Vidwan Cuddalore Subramanian, K. S. Kanakasingam, Trichur P. Ramankutty and P. S. Narayana Swamy. He became popular when he won the Sun TV Saptha Swarangal singing contest in 2001. He is married to a trained Bharata Naatiyam dancer, Reshmi Menon. He has a daughter and a son. Career Mani Sharma introduced Ranjith as a playback singer, calling him to sing the song "Adugu A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priya Himesh
Priya Himesh (also credited as Priya Hemesh) is an Indian playback singer. She sings predominantly in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Odia movies. She has sung more than 200 songs working with many leading music directors like Illayaraja, Harris Jeyaraj, Imman, Vijay Antony, Devi Sri Prasad, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Bharadhwaj, Dhina, and numerous others. Priya started singing in light music orchestras in 1989 and performed in more than 5000 stage shows with many leading orchestras in India and Overseas. Priya is the recipient of Filmfare Awards South for her Telugu song "Ringa Ringa" in the film ''Aarya 2 ''Arya 2'' is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film directed by Sukumar. Starring Allu Arjun, Kajal Aggarwal, and Navdeep, it is a spiritual sequel to ''Arya'' (2004). Devi Sri Prasad composed the film's music, while Aditya Babu a ...''. Selected discography References Living people Indian women playback singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Academy
The Music Academy is a classical music training program in Montecito in Santa Barbara County, California. Overview The academy hosts an annual eight-week summer music festival, highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composers, conductors, and artists. The festival hosts 136 pre-professional musicians who receive merit-based full scholarships. Programs of study are vocal piano, voice, collaborative piano, solo piano, and instrumental. History The first impulse to establish a summer music festival in Santa Barbara came from soprano Lotte Lehmann in 1940. In 1947 the Music Academy was founded by Southern California arts patrons, musicians, conductors and composers. In addition to Lotte Lehmann, founders of the academy were conductor Otto Klemperer, violinist Roman Totenberg, harpsichordist Rosalyn Tureck, baritone John Charles Thomas and composers Ernest Bloch, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris and Arnold Schoenberg, who served as the academy's first composer i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirumullaivoyal
Thirumullaivoyal is a western neighbourhood of Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in the Chennai Metropolitan Area in Tiruvallur district, from Ambattur. The neighbourhood is served by Thirumullaivoyal railway station and Annanur Railway Station. The region was historically part of Thondaimandalam, a region in Chola Empire during 9th century CE. The place was originally called Mullaivanam, a forest, after which the suburb is named. The history of the suburb revolves around the Masilmaninathar temple. The place is also one of the five revenue firkas under the Avadi Taluk. The place is a pilgrimage location and also houses several other religious and natural tourist destinations. Etymology In ancient times, the forest surrounding Thirumullaivoyal was occupied by two notorious tribesmen, Vaanan and Onan from the Kurumbar tribe. King Thondaiman, the then ruler of the land, wanted to put an end to their atrocities. All his attempts went futile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Kash And Krissy
Lady Kash and Krissy, sometimes credited as Kash n' Krissy, were a Singaporean Indian rapper-singer duo that was formed in September 2008 by Kalaivani Nagaraj, known as Lady Kash, and Saradha Vidianand Das, known as Krissy. The duo disbanded in December 2012. History Kalaivani Nagaraj and Saradha Vidianand Das met each other during their mid-teens on a social networking website in 2006. Career In 2007, Nagaraj began her musical career as a rapper, as Lady Kash. In September 2008, Nagaraj and Das formed Lady Kash and Krissy as a rapper-singer duo. Indian singer Benny Dayal, who had heard the duo's vocals after sound testing for a Kannada film, put the duo in contact with A. R. Rahman, who recorded with them the soundtrack " Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam" in the 2010 film ''Enthiran''. The duo also wrote the English lyrics for the song. Rahman later had them contribute to " Semmozhiyaana Thamizh Mozhiyaam", the theme song of the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010. Lady Kash and Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Dayal
Benny Dayal (born 13 May 1984) is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi and more languages films. He has sung more than 3500 songs in 19+ Indian languages. He is a member of the band S5, launched by SS Music TV channel. He made his acting debut in the Malayalam movie '' By the People'', a suspense thriller. All the songs were sung by S5 members and it was then that A.R. Rahman noticed him and took an audition. Personal life Dayal's parents hail from Kollam district in Kerala. He was born and raised in Abu Dhabi, UAE and completed his schooling there from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS). He went on to complete his B.Com. and Masters in Journalism from Madras Christian College. Dayal worked as an Events Coordinator with RR Donnelley. He quit his job in BPO to accomplish his career with music. On 5 June 2016, the singer married his model girlfriend Catherine Thangam in a close-knit ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Jeremiah
Andrea Maria Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, and a musician, who works predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam language films. She made her acting debut in Tamil film ''Pachaikili Muthucharam'' (2007), and Malayalam debut with ''Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013). She has appeared in many commercially successful films like ''Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013), ''Vishwaroopam'' (2013), ''Tadakha'' (2013), ''Endrendrum Punnagai'' (2013), ''Aranmanai'' (2014), ''Loham'' (2015), '' Thoppil Jopaan'' (2016), ''Taramani'' (2017), ''Aval'' (2017), ''Vada Chennai'' (2018) and ''Aranmanai 3'' (2021). Early life Andrea Jeremiah was born in an Anglo-Indian family at Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu on 21 December 1985. Andrea's father is a lawyer at the Madras High Court. She has one younger sister who lives and works at Leuven, Belgium as a research assistant. Jeremiah was raised near Chennai and went to National Public School and graduated from Women's Christian College. She has said that she was qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polio
Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 70% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia. These symptoms usually pass within one or two weeks. A less common symptom is permanent Flaccid paralysis, paralysis, and possible death in extreme cases.. Years after recovery, post-polio syndrome may occur, with a slow development of muscle weakness similar to that which the person had during the initial infection. Polio occurs naturally only in humans. It is highly infectious, and is spread from person to person either through fecal–oral route, fecal-oral transmission (e.g. poor hygiene, or by ingestion of food or water contaminated by human feces), or via the oral-oral route. Those who are infected may spread the disease for up to six weeks even if no symptoms are pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
