Shailesh Shenoy is a well-known and well-respected member of the UAE Amchigele community. Associated with the UAE Amchigele Samaj since its inception. We present a track by Shailesh recorded at the UAE Amchigele Samaj Talent Day.

Rich talents and celebration of our brethern Saraswats in UAE returns. And this time around it is as fresh and young, as it can ever be. Aruna Shenoy shares with us videos of talented children from UAE Amchigele Samaaj Baala Vrinda.

Krishna’s short film about Road Safety has been nominated for the Best Short Film Category at the STS Road Safety Campaign,Dubai 2009.

Harish Pai arrives on Radio Idli, from the Middle East.
A strange thing happened last week.  Over and above the din of financial markets crashing around the world, we could hear a strange chanting from across the Arabian sea.  It kept getting stronger and stronger..until we could hear it oh so very clearly.  “makka Idli jaayi…makka Idli jaayi” !! 
Curious to know more, we checked the amchigeleuae yahoo group.  There too, we saw the same “makka Idli jaayi..makka Idli jaayi” !!
And then it hit us. The UAE Amchis were all eagerly waiting …

 
Report by – Shri Ramesh Pai | UAE | 18 OCT 2008

Meet Krishna Shenoi – a 15 years old genius amongst GSB child prodigies – he is on the threshold of teenage.  He is studying in the Millennium School, Dubai. He has a younger sister Susmita who is an 8th gr
ade student of the same school. They are the lovely kids of Mr. Bala Shenoi & Mrs. Sandhya Shenoi.
Krishna is a multifaceted personality. He has a good number of hobbies – videography, photography, swimming, drawing, painting and story writing.
And none of …

Our next post is a “Krishna Leela” dance presented by Meghana as Lord Shri Krishna, and friends Amey Shenoy, Milind Nayak, Anurag Kamath & Arya Prabhu as gopabalas, at the UAE Amchigele Samaj annual day celebration in December 07.

What is unique about this dance is that it involves the talent, efforts & enthusiasm of three generations:

Meghana, a 7 year old grade III student of Indian High School, Dubai;
Sujatha Bhat, Meghana’s doting mother who lovingly encourages her budding talent &
Smt.Jayanthi R. Pai, Meghana’s multi-faceted charming grandmother of whom both Sujatha and …

Our next offering is a Sai Bhajan sung by 7 year old Hamsika Shanbhag.  This bubbly little girl is the daughter of Shanti & Anand Shanbhag & a student of grade III at KGS, Dubai.  Hamsika has been training under Hindustani classical singer Smt.Chitra Ghosh for the past two years.
We do hope you will like Hamsika’s rendition of “Janam diya tune Sai ko….” , originally sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy. Hamsika would love to receive your blessings via comments posted at radioidli
 
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Ever imagined a Konkani song on a Hindi Karaoke track ? Listen to this song – original is a Hindi film song from ‘Meraa Saaya’ released in 1966, and sung by Smt. Lata Mangeshkar. But here we have a devotional song in Konkani. Perhaps some of you have heard a portion during some bhajan sessions, especially in and around Kochi. But this one, we are sure, is going to be a treat for your ears.
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The song starts as “Toonchita …

“Dil mein tujhe bithaake” from the film “Fakira” sung by Sangeeta Mallya.
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An E&E Engineering graduate from KREC, Sangeeta is the daughter of Smt Nirmala & Shri Hemachandra Kamath. It is their loving support and encouragement that nurtured her talent from a very young age. Sangeeta is the winner of Zee TV’s Antakshari Megafinals held in Goa in 1998.

Sangeeta dedicates this song to her husband, Dr.Sandeep Mallya, who has always whole-heartedly supported her in her musical endeavours.

Video Courtesy : Vitthaldas Kamath 

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We are deeply blessed to have the consent and content from Shri Puttur Pandurang Nayak-Maam, one of the pioneers of Konkani Bhajans. Shri Vitthaldas Kamath and Shri Ramesh Pai of the Abu Dhabi Amchigele Samaaj, have taken the efforts to record, document and …