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).
In recently concluded Assembly Election, some stunning facts came into light regarding the polling pattern of 23 Dhubri Assembly Constituency, which has 15 Gaon Panchyats and a Municipal area. It is found: out of 153339 voters 125119 voters cast their votes and thus officially declared polling percentage is 81.5.
But in Dhubri Municipal Area, out of 50940 voters, 33896 cast their votes. This means 66.54% voters of Dhubri Municipal area cast their vote and it is merely 22% of the total voters of the Dhubri Assembly Constituency. Again in case of rural areas of the constituency it is found: out of 102399 of rural voters, 91223 voters cast their votes (who are mainly from minority community...
The day was April 16. Venue, DLF Phase-I Community Centre, DLF Phase-I, Gurgaon. With dusk of the day, the venue trasformed in to a crowded ‘Bihutoli’ in Assam. Thousand plus people from the entire NCR of Delhi congregated in the venue and participated in the most cherished festival of Assam, ‘Rongali Bihu’, often described as the lifeline of Assamese community.
The curtains to the cultural evening was raised with a musical choir chorded by the ladies of AAG namely, Reena Sharma, Dr. Geeta Baruah Nath, Ashalata Bhuyan, Rajashree Kashyap, Momee Gogoi, Sangeeta Barooah, Mimun Das, Purnima Sharma, Mayuri Sharma, Nandini Sharma with music arranged...
A Chinese handgrenade was found lying at the residence of Chingai constituency MLA Khasim Ruiva early morning on Tuesday. The grenade was found by some family members inside the gate of his house located at Nagaram, Imphal East. A Manipur police bomb expert team rushed to the spot to retrieve the grenade and, later disposed it off at a open place at Lamphelpat area in Imphal West at around 11 AM, according to a police source.
At last Bokakhat police stepped in to rein in MLA Jiten Gogoi. Police on Tuesday arrested Gogoi in connection with the case No 64/2011 where he was charged with assaulting a woman and her family members. The women had to lodge a complaint with Bokakhat police who arrested Gogoi. But was released on bail after a few hours. Assam time was first to break the story that police registered against the independent legislator for assaulting a woman. But another case was registered against him the next day for unleashing terror at the resident of an AGP leader Girin Gogoi.
Despite heavy presence of security forces, arms smuggling refuses to die out in Assam. Security forces have apprehended a youth with arms on Tuesday in Karbi Anglong district. Identified as Dasam Kumar, the youth from Bihar was held in Diphu railway station when was going to board on a Bihar bound train in the morning. A rivolver and Rs 80,000 have been seized from his possession.
Amid tight security arrangement repolling passed off peacefully in Assam on Monday. Polling started on a brisk note at 7 inthe morning at altogether 6 booths in 3 constituencies.Bhawanipur alone has four booths. Rongia and Udalguri has one booth each. The Election Commission ordered repolling in these booths in view of some major allegations of anomalies.
The Diaspora from Assam that call the UAE home is all set to celebrate Rongali Bihu in a grand way on the 29th of April in the glitzy desert city of Dubai. The landmark India Club has been chosen as the venue for the event which is a formal culmination of festivities that take place in various households in the community. No wonder, it is a much awaited event for all those who yearn for the magic of Bihutolis at this time of the year.
It was the year 1999 when UAE first witnessed Rongali Bihu celebrations in a organised way. With each passing year the celebrations have grown in scale and grandeur thanks to the tireless efforts of the Axom Xamaj, UAE and active participation from each...
An uneasy situation is prevailing in Ledo following grenade attack at the residence of a local Congress leader. According to information, miscreants hurled a grenade at the residence of Badal Dutta at around 8 in the evening on Sunday. No one has been injured but the building in which Das and his family house has been partially damaged. Top ranked police officials rushed to the spot. But they are clueless about the incident. Sources have not denied the role of coal mafia since Dutta is associated with coal business.
A 12- year- old boy died when he was knocked down by a truck on Saturday at Thoubal parking, Thoubal district in Manipur, police said on Sunday. The incident took place at around 7: 30 pms last night when Akoijam Sivash (12) was hit by a speeding truck while he along with his two friends were going to attend at a Thabal Chongba programme at Thoubal Okram in the same district.
Condemning the incident, locals of the area blocked Imphal- Moreh section of National Highway-39 from 10 am to 12 noon as well as to pressurise the authorities to arrest the driver and the truck involved in the incident. However, the blockade on the National Highway section was withdrawn following the driver...
Paresh Baishya has been choosen for Best RTI Activist Award 2011 by Citizen Rights.The Award carries a citation, a trophy and a cash award of Rs.10000/- The Award will be given away on July 10 2011 at a function to be held at Shimla.
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