This music institute created quite a buzz in Bangalore in 2009, by being the groundbreaking “First Registered Music Institute to be commenced by an Assamese”. With the festive spirits still vivacious, Eastern Fare Music Foundation had more than one reason to celebrate. Thanks to the trailblazing initiative by Jim Ankan, a music composer from Assam, the institute has not only completed a year but has done extremely well in the Trinity Guild Hall Exam for music. The students of Eastern Fare scored record percentages in the whole of Bangalore City (Shreya Krishnaswamy 98%).
The anniversary celebrations were conducted on 12th February at the Furtados Music Showroom in Koramangala. The event "Euphony - a winter nocturne" also marked the launch of the official website of institute www.easternfare.com. The show took off with some quick and crispy piano recitals by the beginners; while the intermediate students did some covers like “Heal the world” by MJ and “To be with you” by Mr Big. The institute’s band Eastern Fare really got the temperatures rising with some original tracks like “Personally Your’s” and “Least Liked Best”. Vocalist Siddharth Tanti and Faheeda Fahad made the crowd groove to some equally nifty covers like “Friday”, “Wild World”, “Heart Shaped Box”, “Give Me Some Water” and “Animal Instinct”. However it was the featured performance by Chief Guest Suchetan Rangaswamy with his fusion band “Veenar”, whose melodious phonation touched some meticulous Carnatic notes leaving the crowd awe struck. Mr. Rangaswamy also felicitated the top performers of the institute. Parmita Borah anchored the show with her usual panache.
Eastern Fare Music Foundation is a full-fledged music institute and is recognized by the Trinity School of Music. The courses offered are purely western classical, but the management has decided to foray into Carnatic and Hindustani classical music towards the second half of this year. The foundation also has a club, Eastern Fare Music Club, where the members are provided with facilities like jamming room, studio and library. The members of the club have been associated with charitable causes like ‘blood donation’, ‘helping the poor’ and ‘teaching the under priviledged’. The director of the institute Jim Ankan has composed music for many albums, films and south Indian television serials. He has also been featured in Radio Channels like Radio Indigo (Bangalore) and Gupshup FM (Guwahati).
Normal life has also been hit by the 48 hour-bandh called in the two districts from 6 am on Monday by the five organisations against police action on Sunday.
The 48-hour bandh has been called in the two districts by the five anti-dam organisations KMSS, AJYCP, TMPK, All Tai Ahom Students Union (ATASU) and All Deori Students Union (ADSU). They have threatened an economic blockade against Arunachal Pradesh if its Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and his Assam counterpart Tarun Gogoi did not stop construction of the hydro-electric project.
Several persons sustained injury when security forces sprang upon then with lathis and teargas shells for the second day in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts.
Police flogged the protesters when they refused to clear the National Highway 52 linking Arunachal Pradesh. Some of them pelted stones at the security forces.
Lakhimpur deputy commissioner Anwaruddin Choudhury talked to KMSS general secretary Akhil Gogoi to resolve the crisis. But of no avail. They said that would to sit on peaceful protest only if the security forces are restrained.
Gogoi gave three conditions -- the government hold talks with the protesters, the arrested protesters be released and those injured in the...
At least two persons dead and nine others sustained serious injuries when a roof of a hotel collapsed in Tezpur on Saturday. Several other workers have been retrieved hours after they were trapped. The tragic incident took place on Saturday evening near Mission Chariali when around 20 workers were engaged in the construction of a hotel building. A portion of the roof collapsed where two of the workers died on the spot. Thirteen others have been taken to the Tezpur Civil Hospital. Some others are still feared to be trapped inside the site.
Assam is reeling under severe cold wave along with other north eastern states even as weathermen predict more chill in the entire state. Guwahati on Saturday witnessed further dip in temperatures which is expected to last for the next couple of days. Guwahati alone recorded maximum temperature of 17.4 degree Celsius and a minimum temperature of 9.8 degree Celsius. Regional Meteorology Centre predicts more chill during the next few hours. Dense fogs have disrupted normal movement of traffic in Guwahati streets. The northeast frontier railway has also rescheduled a number of trains because of the fogfall.
A local court in Guwahati on Saturday remanded Phani Talukdar to jail a day after police arrested the land mafia from his residence. Talukdar was arrested by Dispur police alleging his involvement in a number of land grabbing cases. Notably, he was arrested by Dispur police on the basis of the FIR field by district administration.
Tension prevails in Gogamukh in Dhemaji district on Saturday when security forces were trying to collect petrol and diesel from a section of vehicles on the streets. According to allegations, the petrol and diesel thus collected would be sent to Gerukamukh which goes dry following the halt of traffic to the areas bordering Arunachal Pradesh at the height of the anti-mega dam protest. Police have reportedly rough up a few media men as they were covering the incident near the NRL petrol pump.
The Assam government is chalking out a slew of steps to uplift the state's film industry which has been ailing for the last few years.
This was what state's minister for cultural affairs Pranati Phukan said when she was holding a meeting recently with a few top filmmakers.
Attended among others by film directors Munin Barua, Manju Bora, Bani Das and noted actos Nipon Goswami and Biju Phukan, in the meeting, she expressed the willingness to solve the problems relating to the production of films and poor condition of Assamese cinema halls. Taking part in the deliberation, owner of a major chain of cinema halls in the city, Chinmoy Sarma, assured all steps will be taken to upgrade the...
The ruralelectrification scheme has been failing to percolate benefit for the poorpeople living in Assam. This was what came tolight when power minister Pradyut Bordoloi has to faced barrage of criticismand questions on the fourth day of the Assam Assembly’s winter session onThursday.As soon as the question hour began at nine in the morning, several members on thefloor raised questions on the benefit of the rural electrification schemes forthe BPL families. They said the scheme has yet to cover thousands of remote villages which have not been able to see the light of success in thescheme. In his reply power minister Pradyut Bordoloi assured said that the government would take steps...
TheSahitya Akademi Award this year goers to noted poet, translator, academician and critic late Dr KabinPhukan. The Sahitya Akademy would award Dr Phukan, noted scholar, writer andpoet would be posthumously. Dr Phukan,who was a senior Professor of English Department in Dibrugarh University, died on May 24 this year.DrPhukan, who wrote many Assamese and Englishbooks, did his PhD from Leeds University, England, received aFulbright scholar at Yale in 1983-84. He also received the Krantikal SahityaSanman.Twoothers from the north eastern region to have received the award are PremanandaMosahari for Bodoand Kshetri Bira, a novelist from Manipur. Phukanand Mosahary have been chosen for their works...
The GNRC Hospitals has recently opened the First Pain Clinic of Assam. Prof. U C Sarma, Vice Chancellor of Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences, Assam, inaugurated the clinic in the presence of medical experts and media personnel on December 17 in the city.
A two-day national seminar on Pain Management was also organized at GNRC Hospitals, Guwahati on the occasion. Titled as PAINCON 2011 the seminar was addressed by several resource persons of National repute.
The physicians say that the pain is a curse to the mankind. Conquering pain in any form has been a great challenge for the entire human race. Through indomitable spirit and constant endeavours, mankind has already...
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