SANGEETHA MAALIKE - 12

Saturday, 31 December 2016
Birthi, Salekeri

Another year passed since the last time Sangeetha Maalike-11 program was organized  to pay tribute to late Sriknth Somayaji. This time it is Hindustani Classical Concert by Pandith Satish Bhat and his young team of artists accompanying.

Nenapugalu - Suresh, Usha, Jayarama, Nalini, Abhilasha, Shobha, ,Shaila, Ravi and Jaya

The program started with "Nenapugalu", memories by relations about how they spent their childhood days at Birthi and with grandfather (Ajjayya). It was very interesting narration by some and audience burst into laughter on many occasions.

Pandith Satish Bhat

Kavya Hande , d/o Sujayeendra Hande, a grade 9 student performed a beautiful dance for a kannada song and it was appreciated by all.

Satish Bhat started his concert at 3.30pm  and went till 6pm with a short break He sang number of bhajans with his melodious voice. He was honoured with a shawl and fruit basket.

A light tiffin was arranged for all people present at the program.

Felicitations

It was a fitting tribute to Late Srikanth Somayaji who was a very good singer and a composer.

written Friday 6th January 2017 

VISIT TO NATIVE PLACE - Part 2

Day 4: 30th Dec. Friday.  Returned to Birthi from GaradiMane, had breakfast, bath and pooja and left for Udyavara where Ravi also came from Bengaluru that morning by bus and all of us proceeded to Ambalpadi Temple near Udupi for Darshan and lunch.

at Anantheshwara Temple, Udupi

After lunch went back to Udyavara and at 4pm came to Alankar theatre at Udupi to watch kannada movie "Kirik party". with Anisha, Shama and Kavya

After the movie went to Krishna Mutt and Anantheshwara Temple for darshan.

with RajaniRamachandra,,Ruchira & Raghavendra

After that we went to visit Rajani Ramachandra and then returned to Birthi, Salekeri.

Day 5 : 31st Dec. Saturday: Morning went to Kameshwara and met Purohit Mahabaleshwara Adiga for his blessings and came home and had breakfast, bath and pooja.
Grand lunch (Oota) was arranged by Abhilasha for the Sachin's wedding people who came from Bengaluru and other close relations, There were about 75 people for lunch.

It was also a day of remembrance of Late Srikanth Somayaji with a short program of "Memories" of BirthiHouse where several relations spoke of nostalgia of childhood days spent at Birthi. Kavya Hande performed a beautiful dance for a kannada song.

"NENAPUGALU"

At 3.30pm, Hindustani Classical Concert by Pandit Satish Bhat and Team was arranged and also he was felicitated with shawl and fruits.

Pt, Satish Bhat in Concert

Honouring the artist

The concert went on till 6.15pm and Bhat sang very well.

Sadaram introducing relations at Get-together

At 7.30pm, we were at Govinda Kalyana Mantapa for wedding get-together party and also to welcome NewYear2017. There was dance, music and dinner after which we returned to Birthi.

Day 6: 1st January 2017, Sunday: It's wedding day of Sachin with Lekha. We reached the wedding Hall (Govinda Kalyana Mantapa, Udupi) at 9am and had breakfast there.

Bride in the chariot

Wedding muhurtham was at 11.15am, and after dibbana dhoom-dham, the bride was brought in a chariot and exchange of garlands, Sachin and Lekha became husband and wife. Other procedure followed like KanyaDaana, Mangalya Dhaarana, SaptaPadi etc. Grand Lunch followed with two sweets and two more sweets to carry. After lunch, we left from the place at 2.30pm.

After reaching Udyavara, we packed our stuff with Seena and left for Bengaluru at 3 pm. We stopped over at Pabbas, Mangaluru for ice-cream and proceeded from there and had some tiffan  near Sakaleshpur.
We reached BirthiMane, Bengaluru at 12 midnight, sharing driving between Ravi, Rishi and Myself. thus ending six days enjoyable trip.

written Thursday 5th Jan, 2017

VISIT TO NATIVE PLACE - Part 1

To attend wedding, music program, pooja program, we had to make a week long visit to the native place, we call it "Ooru", i.e.,  Birthi, Salekeri, Brahmavar and around . The place is about 425 km from Bengaluru and a drive of 8-9 hours.

We scheduled our program from 27th Dec 2016 to 1st January 2017 and to go by car, with Rishi, Mom and our pet "Seena", the beagle dog.

Day One : 27th Dec. Tuesday - Leave from house BirthiMane, BhuvaneshwariNagar Bengaluru,  at 6 am and stopped at Osooru restaurant, near Sakaleshpur, after driving a distance of about 200 km for breakfast. After eating some idli, dosa and coffee left at 11 am.

Drive the Shiiradi Ghat

Next was driving through Shiradi Ghat,  a stretch of 15 km of bad road and reached Mangaluru at 1.30 pm and landed at ShubhaRamesh house at LandLinks, Konchadi for lunch.

Seena enjoying long drive in the car

with ShubhaRamesh at Mangaluru

After a short rest visited Padakannayas, only to find out that he passed away on 19th Nov. after low blood count and weakness. He was 85 years and worked in various places like Ethiopia, SieraLeone, The Gambia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe. He was the person helped me to secure a teaching position in Methodist Girls High School,FreeTown, SieraLeone, West Africa way back in 1971.  His wife Vasanthi alone at home, recovering the from shock of her husband's death.
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.
Their children, Shama and Kishan married and living in US.
We left from there around 4pm and reached Udyavara and spent some time and reached Birthi, Salekeri. my childhood home. My attige (elder brother B P Somayaji's wife) Leela, was very unhappy with our Seena, the dog being taken there. After a little drama, we decided to keep the dog in Udyavara, the next morning.

Day 2, 28th Dec. Wednesday: After bath, pooja and breakfast we left from the house with the dog to Udyavara and from there proceeded to KujaruGiri Temple for Chandika Homa program arranged by Shubha-Raghu. (By performing this Homa, one can invoke energy of Goddess Durga and  with her blessings one can gain strength and power to face and solve all problems of life),

at KunjaruGiri Temple.

After the grand lunch at the temple premises, we visited Rajendra and his family, who is the manager in the temple.

"Shudra Tapaswi" Tulu Drama

Later in the evening we went to watch Tulu Drama, "Shudra Tapaswi" (see a separate blog) at M G M Coollge, Udupi ( which was my college during my graduation years 1964 - 68) along with Vishala Keshava Bhat. After which we returned to Birthi house.

Day 3, 29th Dec. Thursday: After the morning rituals ( Bath, pooja and breakfast) went to visit SMS English Medium School, Brahmavar, (School of student population about 2400) where my niece Abhilasha is the Principal, spent some time.

at SMS English Medium School, Brahmavar

Met Suares and his wife Victoria at their house for a short time in Uppinakote, came home proceeded to Anegudde Temple for darshan and lunch with mom sisters, Rishi. and Ramkrishna.

at Anegudde & HariHara Temple.@ Kumbhasi

On our way back, visited Narayana Shabaraya and family at Perampalli and visited Beeji Mohandas and his wife in their beautiful home in Manipal and spent some time with memories of Dubai years.

with Shabraya family and rheir cows at Perampalli

with Beeji Mohandas family at Manipal

We returned to Birthi and I alone went to attend wedding reception of Michel's son at Brahmavar,

Wedding reception at Brhmavar

After dinner returned to Garadimane with Dinesh Kumar and slept there.

To be continued in Part 2

Written on Thursday 5th Jan 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - RISHI (27)

Saturday, 17th December 2016

It's Rishikanth's Happy Birthday....

Happy BirthDay Son....

We had a family get-together for dinner at Konark Restaurant at Residency road in Bengaluru.

Mom made a home made cake and we reached there by 7pm.

We had some nice food and a family time.

There was Ravi-Vidya, Shubha-Raghu and Lahari and We.

with Seena, the pet

Rishi's pet "Seena", Beagle, laboratory rescued Freagle we adopted six months ago, has become our

family member.

written Wednesday 21st December 2016