By admin on July 12, 2009
Rain gods please on Amdavadis finally!
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Nature | Tagged ahmedabad, amdavad, Gujarat, live videos, photographs, rain
By admin on August 28, 2008
Somebody forwarded the following jpg in Gujarati tonight. It was fun reading through, but so did come along mixed emotions. I don’t know what the basic schooling reminds to you or not, but my early days at the Baherampura Hindi Prathmik Shala run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (mid 70s-1981) came back calling to my [...]
Posted in General, Gujarati Matters, Indian Society | Tagged ahmedabad, childhood, children, fantasy, fun, government-run, Gujarat, india, kids, Poor, primary, school, tragedy
By admin on August 11, 2008
I write this in the backdrop of the latest slump by Indian cricket, and the controversies involving two Indian athletes – Monica Devi and Sania Mirza – at the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Indian sports – not only cricket – has been like this only since we gained independence. I recently had a chat with some sportsmen [...]
Posted in Cricket, Indian Sports | Tagged ahmedabad, beijing olympics 2008, Controversies, Cricket, gca, Gujarat, gujarat cricket association, hockey, india, indian cricket, Indian Sports, mismanagement, monica devi, sania mirza
By Outspoken Gujarati on July 29, 2008
Ahmedabad’s sky was heavily overcast since the early morning today. It rained uninterruptedly until late in the afternoon. While Modi government’s prime concern was a looming drought until the late Saturday afternoon, the focus sharply shifted towards the serial blasts by midnight. The terror strike left behind a trail of injuries and destruction. It rained [...]
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Indian Politics, Nature | Tagged ahmedabad, amdavad, BJP, blasts, bomb, drought, Gujarat, gujarati, heavy rain, Hindutva, irrigation, monsoon, muslim, Narendra Modi, photographs, violence
By admin on June 22, 2008
The following is a list of Gujarati movie songs by Mukesh, I have been able to collect recently. Some of these are truly old ones, since Mukesh could be heard imitating KL Sehgal in those few. A few of them are quite familiar and therefore, could be assumed to have been popular since the old [...]
Posted in Cinema (Other), Gujarati Folk Music, Mukesh | Tagged cinema, gazal, Gujarat, gujarati movie songs, Mukesh, music, sugam sangeet
By admin on June 4, 2008
Image Courtesy of Exotic India Online Art Store
As promised earlier, here we go with another list of Gujarati movie songs. These are Praful Dave and Usha Mangeshkar duets. I’ll get several more Gujarati movie and folk songs uploaded in the next few days.
Duets by Praful Dave and Usha Mangeshkar
Aaj Mataji Aavya Mare Aangne
Aasuti Maas Na [...]
Posted in Cinema (Other), Gujarati Folk Music, Praful Dave | Tagged cinema, duets, folk, Gujarat, gujarati movie songs, music, Praful Dave, usha mangeshkar
By admin on March 7, 2008
Kishen Karve, the lonely Hockey warrior from Gujarat, is no more. He passed away recently, after being ill briefly in Ahmedabad at the age of 84. I had met him several times last year while trying to do my own research on why Indian sports lagged behind at most international meets. My aim was to [...]
Posted in Indian Sports | Tagged ahmedabad, dhyan chand, Gujarat, hockey coach, india, Indian Sports, kishen karve, manna singh
By admin on March 4, 2008
Praful Dave – The Pride Of Gujarat!
Last night I happened to be at Praful Dave’s live Dayro (the Gujarati way of telling folklores) program at the Town Hall, Ahmedabad. Though, I had no definite info if he was performing there or not, I decided to have a chance and was handsomely rewarded in the due [...]
Posted in Cinema (Other), Gujarati Folk Music, Praful Dave | Tagged ahmedabad, cinema, dayro, Gujarat, Gujarati Folk Music, india, playback singer, Praful Dave
By admin on November 10, 2007
It’s the first day after Deepawali in Gujarat today, which goes in tandem with the new year in the Gujarati tradition. Proaudience.com couldn’t have dreamed up of having a better launch as against this. Let us finally start speaking out to the outside world with these first few lines. While Gujarat celebrates the festival of [...]
Posted in General | Tagged ahmedabad, blog, Gujarat, weblog
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