Awesome Vithur.. congrats. On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Vithur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Rahmaniacs, > > It was a great pleasure to be part of Rahmania program today evening . I > had an opportunity to talk with Raihanaji for two hours unplugged... The joy > of being with the sister of the 8th wonder itself gave me a lot of > excitement and joy. We had discussion abt varied points and a brief of what > we discussed and what was aired are as follows :- > > I spoke abt how I started loving ARR music right from Roja time , and in > fact even the Leo Coffee Ad, which by itself was so unique in all aspects. > for every emotion of ours, ARR had a unique composition, which would suit > our feeling and bring out the emotion that we wanted at that particular > time. For eg. If we wanted to be very happy, in a vibrant mode, then > Columbus Columbus ( Jeans ) was the song which was fit at that moment ( > atleast for me ) , and if we wanted to be philosophical, then Aararai Kodi ( > Ah Aah ) was fit. Every composition of ARR seeps inside the nerves, cells, > tissues of the body and makes us feel " we want more: we want more". Each > songs brings about a transformation within ourselves. > > I got an opportunity to speak abt Yahoo groups. The groups started in Jan > 1, 1999 by Gopal Srinivasan, Vijay Iyer. Gopal & Vijay doing a wonderful job > of maintaining the community, spam free, where U can get all accesss to ARR > news then and there. And this being a wonderful medium of sharing one's > love for ARR , his songs, His Background scores, his music bits, his flute > bits and also constructive discussions on what we can do for the society. > > I spoke abt ARR Foundation. About how ARR had started it for a noble > cause, and also abt the release of PFMB Books , which is for a noble cause. > Raihanaji was very happy and she added some tidbits abt how ARR had started > all this for a noble cause of eradicating poverty. In fact, I urged > Raihanaji to think of joing Yahoo groups, for which she consented . I also > spoke about how we had celebrated ARR Bday in Netrodaya and also intend to > do something on a regular basis in the future. > > I also spoke abt orkut.com, ARR fans community, which has 3,50,000 + > members now, just next to INDIA Community. She was wonderstruck to know that > there are so many members for ARR Community. I also urged people who are not > part of YG or orkut to join and share their feelings on ARR, for us to do > something very constructively for ARR in the future . > > Finally, I thanked Aaha Fm, raihanaji for giving me the opportunity, and > also wished that everybody buy CDs, Cassettes of ARR music and hear them > through legal sources. > > It was a wonderful occassion today, and I hope there would be more fans > from Yg / orkut going for the Rahmania program, and sharing some of their > best thoughts on ARR & ARR Foundation. > > Long Live ARR .... All praises to GOD Alone > > Thanks > > -- > regards, > Vithur > > AIMING TO BE A TRUE RAHMANIAC > > > -- Cheers, Pradeepan. "All you need to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you !"
