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  • ABP Network’s Southern Rising Summit 2024 to highlight South India’s future role

    ABP Network’s Southern Rising Summit 2024 to highlight South India’s future role

    Mumbai: ABP Network is set to host the second edition of the Southern Rising Summit 2024, spotlighting South India’s pivotal role in shaping the nation’s future. Scheduled for 25 October in Hyderabad, this influential event will bring together leaders from politics, culture, and industry to celebrate the region’s growth and explore its impact on India’s economic and cultural landscape.  

    Themed ‘Coming of Age: Identity, Inspiration, Impact’, this year’s summit will feature discussions on crucial topics such as healthcare, education, cultural preservation, and South India’s evolving identity. The summit will highlight South India’s position as a key driver in India’s growth narrative.  

    The summit will feature an impressive lineup of speakers, including Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy and union civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu. Notable personalities such as Pullela Gopichand, Chidambaram S. Poduval, Gautami Tadimalla, Sai Durgha Tej, and Raashii Khanna will share their insights on the region’s vibrant identity.  

    The event will also include political discourse led by figures like BJP MP candidate Kompella Madhavi Latha, Congress national spokesperson Shama Mohamed, and senior Congress leader Madhu Goud Yashki. Cultural icons like classical singer Bindu Subramaniam, singer Shilpa Rao, and classical dancer Yamini Reddy will showcase the region’s rich heritage. Renowned historian Vikram Sampath will delve into South India’s historical significance, while Rapido co-founder Aravind Sanka will discuss innovative governance policies.  

     

  • Zee Live announces fourth edition of ‘Arth – A Culture Fest’

    Zee Live announces fourth edition of ‘Arth – A Culture Fest’

    Mumbai: Zee Live, the live entertainment and IP vertical of Zee Entertainment Enterprises has announced the fourth edition of Arth – A Culture Fest. Celebrating 75 years of Indian independence, Arth will bring to its platform distinguished and globally acclaimed personalities to celebrate India’s rich culture and heritage.

    The festival can be watched Live on the YouTube and Facebook pages of Arth – A Culture Fest from 18-20 February.

    This season will witness intriguing discussions on Indian art, culture, cinema, sports, politics, and faith with eminent panelists such as Bharatiya Janata Party national vice president Baijayant Jay Panda,
    Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor and other noted personalities like Abhinav Prakash, Anand Ranganathan, Anupam Kher, Ashwin Sanghi, Avani Lekhara, Ekta Kapoor, Gautam Chikermane, Harsh Gupta Madhusudan, Hindol Sengupta, J Sai Deepak, Meenakshi Jain, Rahul Easwar, Rajat Sethi, Rajeev Mantri, Sanjeev Sanyal, Shefali Vaidya, Shubhrastha, Tusshar Kapoor, and Vivek Agnihotri, said the statement.

    This year’s edition will have topics like The evolution of Indian Cinema, Sports over the years: Cricket and beyond, Story of India’s national carrier: Air India, Indic spirituality and its role in keeping our civilization alive, and India’s role in current geopolitics etc.

    A special TV broadcast of Arth season 4 will be telecasted on close to 20 channels of Zeel including Zee TV, &TV, Zee Punjabi, Zee Marathi, Zee Café amongst others. It will showcase the brilliance of Indian culture and heritage through an ensemble of Indian dance, shayari by Kumar Vishwas, musical performances by Aman & Ayaan Ali Khan, B Praak and the team of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

    Arth – A Culture Fest founder and Saat Saath Arts Foundation’s co-director Shreyasi Goenka said, “The main objective of Arth – A Culture Fest has always been to re-connect Indians to their roots and help them re-discover the rich legacy that our country has to offer. As India enters her 75th year of independence, we at Arth wanted to celebrate and pay homage to the various unique aspects that set our country apart from the rest of the world. In the fourth season of Arth, we have an incredible line-up of industry stalwarts coming together to discuss what gives India her true meaning.”

    “The last two years have been nothing but a learning curve for all of us. We have pivoted ourselves and come out even stronger,” stated Arth – A Culture Fest’s festival director, author and historian Vikram Sampath. “Fueled by the success of the third season of Arth – A Culture Fest, we have come back with a unique theme of celebration – A Celebration of India’s 75 years of freedom. Viewers can look forward to brilliant discussions by distinguished personalities who have represented India on a global platform in this specially curated fourth season of Arth.”

    Travelling to Kolkata and Delhi the first three seasons of Arth saw the presence of eminent leaders and speakers like union home minister Amit Shah, minister of road transport and highways of India Nitin Gadkari, union minister for women and child development Smriti Irani, and other noted personalities like Subramanian Swamy, Asaduddin Owaisi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Gaur Gopal Das, Imtiaz Ali, Raveena Tandon, and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.

    The previous editions also hosted eminent personalities from the media and advertising fraternity like Piyush Pandey and Prasoon Joshi. Manoj Muntashir, Amish Tripathi, Aanchal Malhotra, Ruskin Bond, Sudha Murthy, Ashwin Sanghi, and Mandira Bedi were also present.

     

  • Archive of Indian Music to digitise and preserve old and rare gramophone records

    Archive of Indian Music to digitise and preserve old and rare gramophone records

    NEW DELHI: An ‘Archive of Indian Music’ (AIM) has been established in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in a unique first-of-its kind effort to digitise and preserve old and rare gramophone records.

     

    This is because many of these rare records are on the verge of destruction and would be lost forever without timely action.

     

    The Archive was launched by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in the presence of renowned classical dance exponent and AIM Advisory board member Padma Vibhushan Dr. Sonal Mansingh, historian and archivist Dr. Boria Majumdar, IGNCA Member Secretary Dipali Khanna, and renowned author/historian and founder-trustee of AIM Vikram Sampath.

     

    AIM is the brain-child of Bangalore based author/historian and Sahitya Academy winner, Vikram Sampath and has been established with the generous help of T V Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Global Education.

     

    The main objective of AIM is to create the first digital sound archive of India and disseminate the content freely among all music lovers through an online portal and through innovative ways like audio exhibitions, listening kiosks, guided listening sessions etc. and by taking it to the youth in schools and colleges and giving them a new perspective of looking at Indian history – through sound. 

     

    The range of gramophone records that will be restored include Hindustani and Carnatic classical music, Folk music, Early Cinema, Theatre, Speeches of great leaders of the country and voices of common Indians that were recorded starting 1902.

    Pai believes that ‘AIM is a brilliant initiative to refurbish the rich musical tradition left behind by our ancestors, it is a unique concept that provides us with an opportunity to access the rich audio records that we have inherited and we are extremely proud of. In this day where only material gains matter to people, I am delighted to see a young man like Sampath who has worked on this with unparalleled passion and zeal and hence I came forward readily to support his dream and help it materialize.” 

    Sampath added, “India’s musical inheritance is a larger aspect of its identity in the world of music. AIM is an intellectual property created to save these vintage recordings for the future generations to know and be proud of the work created by the musical geniuses of our country. It breaks my heart to see this valuable cultural inheritance rot in the most despicable manner in flea markets and Kabadi shops across India. On a war-footing, we hope to reverse this trend and have set ambitious targets for ourselves – including restoration of 100,000 records within the next five years and construction of a National Sound Archive of India in Bangalore, with parallel centers in other parts of India. Equally important is disseminating this archived material for the public at large as it is the treasure that every Indian has inherited and has a rightful access to”

    Established in 2011, the Trust has set up an office in association with the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities in Bangalore and imported state-of-the-art machinery to digitise old gramophone records.

    The website of AIM www.archiveofindianmusic.org features around 200 artistes and nearly 1000 tracks at present – all of which can be accessed completely freely and sitting at home. Rare tracks including Gandhiji’s Spiritual Message that he recorded in 1931 in England, the country’s first recording by Gauhar Jaan in 1902, Tagore reciting his Bengali poetry, the first recording of the National Anthem by the Viswa Bharati Chorus, the first recording of M S Subbulakshmi as a child of nine years are just a few of the valuable gems in the website. The Archive has already collected nearly 10,000 old and vintage gramophone shellac and vinyl plates from various parts of India for purposes of restoration.

    AIM has trustees from all over India and is guided by an advisory board comprising of some of the most eminent artistes of the country – filmmaker Shyam Benegal, danseuse Sonal Man Singh, Chinmaya Gharekhan of IGNCA, Bombay Jayashri, Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, Pt. Vijay Kichlu, VAK Ranga Rao, Alarmel Valli, Dr. Shyamala G Bhave, Lalith Rao, Nandini Ramani, VAK Ranga Rao, Arundhati Ghosh of IFA, and Bhaskar Mitra of Sangeet Ashram Kolkata.