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Make a Guest Book Entry Manni Sharma 11/2/2009 10:42:58 PM Rajan Parikar, I love you. IP Address: 99.227.118.212 Ruma Dutta 10/14/2009 3:07:29 PM Shirin, I have aquestion for Shirin. I like to write in editorial column. How can I submit? Please let me know your e mail. With good wishes, Ruma IP Address: 75.42.216.20 Mahavir Sharma 9/13/2009 2:53:20 PM Meenakshi ji Subject: Ghazal Sankalan Katha UK is planning to bring out a collection of ghazals written by ghazalkaars of USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, the Gulf and Singapore etc. Our intention is to request 15 ghazalkaars in all and collect 10 ghazals from each one of them. This anthology would be edited by Mahavir Sharma of the United Kingdom and published by the Katha UK. The anthology would have only ghazals and not kavita of any other sort. May I request you to please forward us your 10 ghazals for this anthology as soon as possible. Your help in the matter would be highly appreciated. Since the project would be funded by Katha UK from its own resources, we are not waiting for sponsorship from anywhere. Mahavir Sharma Sampadak (Hindi Ghazal Sankalan) e-mail: mahavir.sharma5@googlemail.com Tejendra Sharma General Secretary (Katha UK) London, UK e-mail: tejendra.sharma@gmail.com IP Address: 87.194.61.2 Yashodhan HATWALNE 8/17/2009 10:10:48 AM Professor Parrikar, . Wanted to record my appreciation for your efforts which would have pleased chatur pandit himself. With regards, Yashodhan. IP Address: 61.14.43.11 kaushik jani 8/2/2009 11:33:46 AM I love hindustani classical and am constrained to self-teach myself through such free sites. As such, the learned discussions hosted here are manna to me. I wish to express my deepest gratitude for your free service. God bless you. IP Address: 121.246.75.217 fawn michelle divine 6/23/2009 5:39:18 AM I enjoyed stephanie's story about being maried to a pakistani. I am deeply deeply in love, and engaged to a pakistani man. We have discussed many things like religion, family, raising children, where we will live, but there were a lot of things stephanie wrote that i never knew, or thot about...so i found her piece just fascinating. ~fawn~ IP Address: 12.109.215.160 Renuka Bhaskar 6/16/2009 1:32:14 PM This request is for Rajanji. If he could post something about rag Purvi, I will really appreciate that! IP Address: 99.131.135.206 anita 4/21/2009 3:54:37 PM I saw the woman on the picture. She could be my sister. she look the same as me. I'm also born in Napur in 1974 greetings anita IP Address: 24.132.246.10 Nafees Ahmad 4/13/2009 8:38:38 AM My name is Nafees Ahmad, and I myself is a musician, my profile can be seen by Typing “Nafees Ahmad Sitar” in the Google search bar. I have no words to appreciate this sole contribution to the classical music, the only thing I could just say is that I surrender all my good feeling and prays for the people who are devoting their time and energies for this noble cause. May God bless you all. IP Address: 110.37.16.123 Julia Meecham 4/12/2009 8:39:11 AM We offer a free fund raising service via our not-for-profit website: maps4pets IP Address: 86.166.44.146 Lakhjeet Singh 3/30/2009 10:40:42 PM Very good efforts by the forum. Actually I was looking notations for gurbani kirtan and in the process I found your website and visited. Tell me anything which I can do for you in India (Punjab, Chandigarh). thanx IP Address: 122.173.145.19 Kishanrao Kulkarni 3/25/2009 11:13:34 PM Ignorance is bliss, so they say and so it appears reading certain sections of Parrikar's notes. If Parrikar thinks that people from Bengal have a very pedestrian sense of music, then he should be advised to look up and listen to some compositions of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul as a starter. I would like to ask Mr. Parrikar whether or not he has heard of the late Pt. Gyan Prakash Ghosh, Ustad Alauddin Khan and his equally illustrious son Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Parrikar may also have heard of a certain Pt. Ravi Shankar. Is Mr. Parrikar aware that the Dover Lane Music Conference, that is held annually in Calcutta, is one of the most Hindustani classical music conferences in India. If Mr. Parrikar has a personal grudge against Bengalis, he is advised to keep his thoughts and oipnions to himself or join Raj Thackeray in promoting his hate campaign. This forum is most certainly not the place for such comments. IP Address: 69.151.240.169 kishor kumar khorendra 3/21/2009 12:31:51 AM I like this forum.I want to send my some poems for poetry column . IP Address: 122.168.218.42 Ramkumar 3/19/2009 2:37:18 AM I am ardant fan of music and it is my life. i am a bhajan singer in chennai and i would like to know the arohi and abarogi for Raag Chandra dhwani. a song was sung by rashid khan i believe. can any one help me? can be sent to my mail id: ramkumarsubbaraman@gmail.com IP Address: 121.247.44.199 Vinesh Y Hookoomsing 1/27/2009 1:33:03 AM This is a follow up to my previous response: I typed dal saga in google search and made a marvelously tasty article of PADMINI NATARAJAN (Spinach Saga 8/2/99) on how spinach is turned into soup, with a little left over dal, in the streets of Chennai! Her narrative of kachoo and the markets of Mauritius' Quatre Bornes and Rose Hill ( which are my saturday favourites, by the way), flavoured with Creole words, is still so authentic in spite of the veneer of modernity of St Jean road constantly jammed with trafic. I do research on Mauritian Indian diaspora, and I'd like to get in touch with her and inquire if she has other writings which refer to Mauritius. Thanks and best regards, Vinesh. IP Address: 41.212.197.44 Vinesh Y Hookoomsing 1/27/2009 1:26:07 AM I typed dal saga in google search and made a marvelously tasty article of yours on how spinach is turned into soup, with a little left over dal, in the streets of Chennai! Your narrative of kachoo and the markets of Quatre Bornes and Rose Hill ( which are my saturday favourites, by the way), flavoured with Creole words, is still so authentic in spite of the veneer of modernity of St Jean road constantly jammed with trafic. I do research on Mauritian Indian diaspora, and I'd like to know if you have other writings which refer to Mauritius. Thanks and best regards, Vinesh. IP Address: 41.212.197.44 G. S. JOHAR 1/22/2009 4:51:03 AM This is for the information of Bruce Gorie [IP Address: 90.203.64.15] seeking information about Sapheda Kaskaree and Rus Campoor. Sapheda Kaskaree is the Sanskrit term for the inorganic pigment WHITE LEAD, having the chemical formula : [ 2PbCO3 + Pb(OH)2]. It was formerly used as an ingredient of LEAD PAINTS after making a paste with varnish. But because of its poisonous nature leading to lead poisoning symptoms, its use has been banned in most of the countries. But in India it is still widely used by the plumbers for fixing the joints of water pipe lines and taps. In chemical terms, white lead is known as BASIC LEAD CARBONATE. After reaching to human body, as a slow poison, it causes painful symptoms of lead poisoning. Rus Camphoor ( actually, ‘Rus Karpoor’ ) is the Sanskrit name for CALOMEL or MERCUROUS CHLORIDE, having the chemical formula, Hg2Cl2. Being a compound of mercury, it is certainly toxic, but much less deadly that its ‘next brother’, MERCURIC CHLORIDE or CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, having the chemical formula, HgCl2. Whereas mercuric chloride is fully soluble in water, but calomel (Rus Karpoor) is not. Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s son Kharak Singh, as per known history, certainly died a painful death with loud cries due to excruciating agony of uncontrollable cramps in the bowls and limbs caused by the metallic poisons. Kharak Singh’s son, Naunihal Singh, is described as a co-conspirator in the assassination of his father. IP Address: 59.145.163.135 zibex 1/21/2009 9:28:04 PM hnvX7h hi! nice site! IP Address: 201.48.209.2 Bruce Gorie 1/13/2009 6:11:10 PM I found your website while trying to find out about poisons used in India in about 1840 when ?Maharajah Ranjit Singh's son Kharak Singh died on 5th November 1840 by poisoning ‘by being ministered small doses of Sapheda Kaskaree and Rus Campoor in his wine’. I wonder if anyone can tell me what Sapheda Kaskaree or Rus Campoor was? IP Address: 90.203.64.15 thfmngy swmilrag 1/13/2009 5:06:18 AM qfamwdtch fruo gnraylzkb hukvepai pdjsnlmqh ulsiq cqmtnkf IP Address: 91.184.39.147