Month: December 2004
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There are very few
There are very few musical compositions which can drive you crazy on the first listening. With no clue of how the music would sound, I landed in Subash Ghai’s Kisna website. There were sounds of horses galloping and then an animated sword flies in and gets stuck into the battlefield mud, followed by a flute.…
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Fusion goes full throttle
Had been to My Best Friend’s Wedding at Hotel Palmgrove. Not the movie, a true wedding. While the Palmgrove at Nungambakkam is the toughest place to reach given the traffic that surrounds the place, it is a place for a good decent wedding. The only crib I have is that you may get lost among…
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LIC’s freaking Insurance Data Warehouse
This note on moneycontrol.com says that Life Insurance Corporation of India is planning to implement the largest insurance datawarehouse in the world by 2007. LIC is looking at a 60 terabyte DWH size in the first phase. USs largest insurance data warehouse is understood to be deployed by Nationwide which is in the region of…
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Kamal – Ananthu – Jean Claude Carriere
Hurray !! This was what I was looking for. In an interview, after Ananthu‘s demise, Kamal Hassan recollected his thoughts on Ananthu, his mentor, very effusively. While he agreed that its time to move on with Ananthu’s memories, he remarked about his recent friendship with a french playwright who helped him with the French version…
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Marghazhi Kutcheri Season 2004 takes off
[Sanjay Subramaniam in a kutcheri. Pic: hindu] From Aalapanaas to Thukadas to silk sarees, canteen bajjis, sabhas, raskias and season tickets, everything is on for this December Carnatic Music Season 2004 in Chennai. One of the biggest joys of being in Chennai, the cultural head of South India is this December kutcheri season also known…
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