5 things to look out for at Sawai Gandharva 2019 other than great music
Come December and the rasiks - an audience who enjoys the nectar of art- pull out their woollens to prep watching hours of singers, musicians and dancers at the Sawai Gandharva Festival or the Pt. Bhimsen Joshi Mahotsav. Sawai Gandharva is known to most of us as Bhimsen Joshi's guru, his real name was Rambhau Kundolker. A Kannadiga by birth, he hailed from the the village of Kundol in Dharwad. He was a known to be a handsome man with a meditative, caressing voice which may be observed with Bhimsen Joshi's singing style. Though he was trained at a Kinara gharana (gharanas is a method of social organisation of the Hindustani classical music, each gharana has features of throw, clarity, breath, melody etc) , he adsorbed nuances from several stalwarts of the time. This was much to the dismay of his mentor Abdul Karim Khan who was the founding artist of the Kinara gharana. The free spirited Sawai, embraced all and it is only fitting that he lives on in the cool winter breeze of the valley whispering to us an encompassing tale of decades. I sipped on my gavati chaha (lemongrass tea) and wandered through the human fireflies their souls glowing on receiving this musical relay among the artists.
If you miss these nights the rest of the year you can lay your hands on the Sawai 1992-97 recordings at the Music Lovers store in a USB drive for Rs 2499.
We had this year with us a few more artists who brought the simple things to us for our everyday life.
Omkar Arts/ Heritage Design
This ecofriendly store urges you to stock up on gifts for all your music lover friends. They have canvas drawstring bags, watercolour print t shirts and some very cute pencils with seeds at the back for you to sow instead of throwing away the pencil made from recycled newspaper. Sandip Modgi, an Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya alumni who works on the creative inputs for the family owned business of 3 brothers has been working on wildlife, yoga themes since 4 years. One can find his work at Kanha, Tadoba, Bhimashankar souvenir stores. "This was my first year working with Indian classical music prints. I have my youngest brother Deepak support me with his degree in printing technology whereas Kiran handles the marketing" says an effervescent Sandip. All their products are pocket friendly and come with a side of warm smiles.
You can find them Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/heritagedesign.in or call in on 9421051626
Puranquick
"If we can have pizza in 30mins, living in Pune we must be able to order puranpoli in 2 hours! My mother is the real boss while my brother and I have taken her idea forward", says Pallavi as a matter of fact and I couldn't agree more about both the pizza parallel and mothers being the ultimate boss. So next time you have an impromptu bunch of relatives or simply craving this Maharashtrian delicacy simply call 8669987711. They come at a reasonable Rs 28 per piece.
Started 3 years by two siblings Rasik and Pallavi are here to bring you the puranpoli (whole wheat bread stuffed with lentils, jaggery and spices) connoisseurs the stuffing if you are interested to roll them out yourself. a box of 300 grams which dishes out 12 polis is priced at Rs 115. Did I forget to mention that making the perfect puranpoli in Pune is most certainly an art form?
http://puranquick.com/index.html
A photograph exhibition
Photographer Sateesh Paknikar has on display his collection of 4 artists, Padit Feroz Dastur, Dr. Vasanthrao Deshpande, Ustaad Allah Rakha and Pandit Ravishakar to mark their birth anniversaries this year.
Titled Swar Shatabdi, these captures artists in their element, in a friendly banter with friends and on their balcony in black and white. One can purchase his work at http://www.sateeshpaknikar.com/coffee-table-books/
RUSIT- Ragas Collection
Do you think wearing the right perfume would help you enjoy the music better? Well Anand Jog of the Rusit certainly believes that. So much so, that he has created an entire range of perfumes priced at Rs 100-120 per bottle. They had several returning customers so don't forget to carry your coffee beans or just your coffee from the Kumardhara outlet in the food section (Yes! They have a dedicated stall).
A mother daughter duo brand, family businesses always get me favouring them. AntraArts was started in 2016 by Antra Thackeray who holds a diploma in Textile Design from S.L Raheja, Worli, Mumbai. Her daughter Durga, a mandala artist, helps behind the scenes with social media, production, sales etc.
Inspiration comes to Antra naturally and mostly from the works for her father, very popular artist -Mr. Vishwanath Palnitkar. They have cushion covers, spiral bound fabric notebooks for your music notes and my favourite hand embroidered handkerchiefs which last you back to your childhood.
Stop by and pick up a tote for your singing class books and buy their hand embroidered stoles to keep warm this year at Sawai.
Contact: antraarts@gmail.com or 9920804441 / 9930571727
Instagram: www.instagram.com/AntraArts
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AntraArts
If you miss these nights the rest of the year you can lay your hands on the Sawai 1992-97 recordings at the Music Lovers store in a USB drive for Rs 2499.
We had this year with us a few more artists who brought the simple things to us for our everyday life.
Omkar Arts/ Heritage Design
This ecofriendly store urges you to stock up on gifts for all your music lover friends. They have canvas drawstring bags, watercolour print t shirts and some very cute pencils with seeds at the back for you to sow instead of throwing away the pencil made from recycled newspaper. Sandip Modgi, an Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya alumni who works on the creative inputs for the family owned business of 3 brothers has been working on wildlife, yoga themes since 4 years. One can find his work at Kanha, Tadoba, Bhimashankar souvenir stores. "This was my first year working with Indian classical music prints. I have my youngest brother Deepak support me with his degree in printing technology whereas Kiran handles the marketing" says an effervescent Sandip. All their products are pocket friendly and come with a side of warm smiles.
You can find them Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/heritagedesign.in or call in on 9421051626
Puranquick
"If we can have pizza in 30mins, living in Pune we must be able to order puranpoli in 2 hours! My mother is the real boss while my brother and I have taken her idea forward", says Pallavi as a matter of fact and I couldn't agree more about both the pizza parallel and mothers being the ultimate boss. So next time you have an impromptu bunch of relatives or simply craving this Maharashtrian delicacy simply call 8669987711. They come at a reasonable Rs 28 per piece.
Started 3 years by two siblings Rasik and Pallavi are here to bring you the puranpoli (whole wheat bread stuffed with lentils, jaggery and spices) connoisseurs the stuffing if you are interested to roll them out yourself. a box of 300 grams which dishes out 12 polis is priced at Rs 115. Did I forget to mention that making the perfect puranpoli in Pune is most certainly an art form?
http://puranquick.com/index.html
A photograph exhibition
Photographer Sateesh Paknikar has on display his collection of 4 artists, Padit Feroz Dastur, Dr. Vasanthrao Deshpande, Ustaad Allah Rakha and Pandit Ravishakar to mark their birth anniversaries this year.
Titled Swar Shatabdi, these captures artists in their element, in a friendly banter with friends and on their balcony in black and white. One can purchase his work at http://www.sateeshpaknikar.com/coffee-table-books/
RUSIT- Ragas Collection
Do you think wearing the right perfume would help you enjoy the music better? Well Anand Jog of the Rusit certainly believes that. So much so, that he has created an entire range of perfumes priced at Rs 100-120 per bottle. They had several returning customers so don't forget to carry your coffee beans or just your coffee from the Kumardhara outlet in the food section (Yes! They have a dedicated stall).
https://www.facebook.com/Rusit.ragas/
AntraArts
Inspiration comes to Antra naturally and mostly from the works for her father, very popular artist -Mr. Vishwanath Palnitkar. They have cushion covers, spiral bound fabric notebooks for your music notes and my favourite hand embroidered handkerchiefs which last you back to your childhood.
Stop by and pick up a tote for your singing class books and buy their hand embroidered stoles to keep warm this year at Sawai.
Contact: antraarts@gmail.com or 9920804441 / 9930571727
Instagram: www.instagram.com/AntraArts
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AntraArts
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