Part 1>> Whistleblowing 1 – Whistling Melodies – Rajesh Koppikar
Radio idli takes the pleasure of inviting into its family, Shri Rajesh Koppikar, an artist with a unique gift. His video channel on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/chirchiri) has 245 songs and is lined up with farmaish’s (song requests)!
Rajesh will be most glad to have your Farmaish too!! So do write or comment back.
Hear his songs below.. if you have a request kindly leave behind a comment here. You may also write to feedback@radioidli.net.
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Rajesh’s …

GSB Sabha Mumbai Celebrates 5 years of Satsang
- a visual report
Chief Guest – Shri Govind Ramadas, a great exponent and propagator of the Gita.

The GSB Sabha of Mumbai, celebrated its fifth year of satsang. The sessions are held every month on the first Saturday, where one particular section of the Holy Gita is chanted and discussed. Shri N. G. Pai-maam convenes the sessions which give every participant a fair chance to narrate his views on the Song Divine (Bhagwad Gita).
The 5th year celebrations was marked by the presence of Chief …

Our star singer Archana Kamath and her father Shri Dinesh Kamath have always been a strong support through their active participation throughout the first year of Radio Idli. I am pleased to post here one song each from them which they specially recorded for wishing Radio Idli a happy birthday!
1) Shri Dinesh Kamath
Dinesh-maam sings to us a Birthday wish to which i would want all of us to say …. amen
Baar baar yeh din…

baar bar din.mp3

2) Archana Kamath
The star of Voice of Mumbai (Hindustan Times), Khelo Gao Jeeto …

Listeners dearest!
Its been one year since we started the Radio Idli initiatives. Sailing through its own ups and downs, we seem to have fared satisfactorily in making the community across the world aware of the rich talents we have within us!
The journey gets more interesting every moment, and here we are back with the stars of Radio Idli!
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1) Sanat Prabhu
After brewing so much of Kaapi for us and “interviewing” the stars, Sanat is back to one more thing he is too good with — Karaoke Singing!
He shares with us a …

After some hard talk with “Shahrukh”, “Aamir Khan”, “Sanju Baba” etc (please note the quotes mark in each of the star names) he is now all set to unveil the secrets of “Akshay Kumar” who is hot and happening these days.
In his own creative way and through his original concept, Sanat Interviews “Akshay Kumar”
Enjoy!
Warning: The volume of the recordings may fluctuate. you may keep your volume controls handy. i am trying to fix this meanwhile kindly bear with us!

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Check all the episodes of Kaapi With Sanat through the widget below: …

After migrating from the Saraswati River Banks and then from Goa, Karnataka has been a home and a center for many Saraswat families for the last few generations.
We have in this edition, two beautiful songs by two very talented singers from the Radio Idli family.
Balachandra Prabhu
Those who have heard this upcoming prodigy in the previous post, would be waiting to hear from him yet again. Balachandra returns after winning an award from the All India Radio, standing first in a National Competition. He is now an All India Radio artist!
We …

Balachandra Prabhu
Based in the musical town of Hubli and a dedicated student of the Kirana Gharana, Balachandra brings to us the rich flavours of Hindustani Classical music.

Born in Belthangady a place in south canara on 14th October 1985, Balachandra took his initial lessons of Hindustani classical vocal from his father. Further from Shri Jayateerth Mevundi for 3 years and at present he is under the able guidance of the renowned Kirana gharana vocalist, Pandit Shripati Padigar who is a senior disciple of great vocalist of India Pandit Bhimsen …

I have been postponing the uploading of these links for a long time now. My apologies are due on this front. This year as usual the Kanara Saraswat Association organised its event and there was a tremendous response. This is the same stage where great artistes like Pt.Ravishankar have done their earlier performances and the association has a reputation of being patrons of indian music.
We are posting some of the best performances here on radio idli.
Sunil Kamath won the first prize for his rendition of jiya dhadak Dhadak in the …

Palkhi Utsavs, Oil Lamps and the bright Full Moon in the heavens, mark the special occassion of Kartik Poornima tonight. The voices of our community talent always brings smiles to each of us and the bloom of Poornima at the click of a widget
Here’s serving you the best for the festival with our best wishes attached.
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Archana Kamath
“Main Chandni nigal gai” sings Archana on the full moon night. Hear more of her sweet voice on this wonderfully rendered song:

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Atul Pai, Mulki
The graceful moonlight makes atul sing about …

Here’s wishing all our listeners and team a Dazzling Diwali filled with the best gifts for our life!
This time i would rest my keypad a bit and do some audio babble … here we go:

Diwali RJ babble 1…

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Ms. Geeta Khanolkar – A professional, live in concert (Mumbai)
It is our privilege to have a voice of a professional on our blog, thanks to her close relative, Ms. Smita Nalkoor, who sent us her live recording. Srikala, Ms. Nalkoor’s daughter if you recall made a very nice debut last week.
The audio quality …