Radio Idli spent a memorable week leading to the 75th Rama Navami celebrations at Shri Ramanjaneya Devasthana, Vile Parle. The temple is one of the oldest Saraswat Temples in Mumbai, founded by a Great Saint Shri Laxminarayan Maharaj. The temple today continues to be looked after by the sons of this great family, and has an annual Teru (rathotsava) much to the delight of Rama Devotees beyond even our community. We share with you the delight of photography of the event, granted to us generously by the Mandir

Puttur Pandurang Nayak-maam rendered a divine concert at Vashi, during the last Chaturmasya of Shrimad Sudhindra Teertha Swamiji. He kept the audience spellbound with a collection of is best songs.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Vakratunda Mahakaaya Kotisurya Samaprabha. Nirvighnam Kurumedeva Sarvakaryeshu Sarvada.
Dear friends, Radio Idli and its volunteers take the pleasure of sharing with you snippets of Ganapati celebrations in the GSB Mandals and households of Mumbai. Over the next five days, i will be adding links of video clips taken by us.
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NOTE: over the next few days of the festival we will be updating this space with
more photos and videos. Do feel free to contribute your clicks too!!
Apart from the videos below, we also have a great collection of photographs on
Photo Idli (Click …

While our Ganapati Bappa is marching closer to us, dancing in his graceful Tandava steps, his blessings are seeing our talented singers like Archana scaling new heights.
As mentioned in the previous posts, she is now on the finals of “Voice of Mumbai” (today’s article and link above)
Here is a small message on behalf of Radio Idli to all our listeners and participants!!

Ganesh Chaturthi A…

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Archana Kamath
After reading so much about her and wishing her all the very best, its time to hear what she has exclusively recorded for us. I am …

Contributed by: Harish Shanbhag, Nikhil Pai and Nagesh Pai.
As GSB’s we have been ardent followers of the religious traditions carried forth by our ancestors. Our religious festivals have given us the spiritual strength and also strong social bonding.
We are proud to share three wonderful videos as a part of our journey to the religious side of the GSB world.
ARTI # 1 Shrimad Sudhindra Teertha Swamiji performing an Arti to their deity, at a function in Vashi, New bombay.
Please click the following link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2679238695095950159&hl=en
ARTI # 2 Arti of our loving Lord Ganesh …

RJ: Nagesh Pai
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Listeners Bandhavaano!
Amidst this hot summer, i welcome you all to the soothing moonlight of our fullmoon edition. We have a great assortment of a video interview (chutney chat of our artist ARCHANA), duet songs, karaoke and a sweet lullaby for you this week!
So here we begin.
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RJ Nagesh Pai begins
I would like to share a piece of music from the musical classic – Shankarabharanam. this is an Alaap, with wordings as simple as sa re ga pa and dha .

Shankarabharanam.m…

Note: if you have problems playing the …

Presented by RJ Nagesh “Anna” Pai
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Listeners dearest! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. After a splendid 13th edition presented by our team buddy RJ We-Wake, and the great Southern Sambar edition and quiz hosted by RJ Sunnyboy – SOoraj and Quiz Master Vivek, you all would be asking for more!!
At Radio Idli, whats hosted is talent contributed by each of our listeners. We do not hire any professional talent. A special message to you all.. please contribute your voice/ original music/ narrations/ informative videos to radioidli@gmail.com and share it …