India's Soul Surfing | EXCLUSIVE

Surfing is an alien sport in Indian sub continent.
Our passion for surfing , Healing beaches with yogic practices, mystical waves of Indian ocean are the inspirations to unite surfers from around the globe in the 1st Indian Surf festival.
This epic event will be a pipeline to connect powers of sun healing with art of surfing to become a subtle tool of meditation which synchronize all of us with the cosmos.

Contact our travel partner-
info@grassroutesjourneys.com
+91 9437029698
skype: grassroutesjourneys

Nearest airport: Bhubaneswar- 70 Kms.
Nearest railway station: 15 Kms.
There are plenty of hotels and guest houses in town of Puri & Konark to suit every kind of budget. Limited camping facility available in Surfers Island.
Nearest International airport: Kolkatta: 375 Kms.
Temperature : warm/moderate around 20-25 degree


For more information contact
( Orissa )
Sanjay - 91-09437003284
surfingyogis@gmail.com

( Mumbai )
Spandan - 91-09819639336
banerjee.spandan@gmail.com

( Mumbai )
Kedar - 91-09702569316
sonigra.kedar@gmail.com

(Mumbai)
Sachin Salian 91-08655505506
sachinssalian@gmail.com

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alisokaelan@yahoo.com


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The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project | Enter Guerrilla Films

'Your script is larger than logic!'

Interview with Mr. Vaas coming soon.....

Paris-Bombay | Chanel Fashion Show

Image courtesy - dailymail.co.uk

SHOR IN THE CITY | First Look

This gritty, grounded film revolves around three loosely interconnected stories set in the midst of the noise and grime of Mumbai. In the overcrowded urban landscape that forms the backdrop of this film, the right and wrong are blurred, giving way to the more basic need to survive and succeed.

Unbox Festival | Feb 24-27, 2011, Delhi

Conference + Fellowship +Public Events + Partner Festivals
UnBox creates a space for practitioners to learn from one another and spark new forms of social and cultural innovation. The festival blends work and play across contexts and mediums, bringing attendees together for lectures, panels, workshops, debates, brainstorms, and travel. The festival experience is designed to be completed and inspired by access to four parallel cultural festivals in the evenings and nights from 24-27 February 2011.

Prior to the festival, selected UnBox Fellows will participate in an immersive, intense, and multi-disciplinary field trip. We seek fellows for sessions on design thinking and entrepreneurship in India, organic food in India, Old Delhi through new media, and livelihoods in Kumaon.

More info on - http://unboxfestival.com/home/

SYNTHESIZING – TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT by Charanjit Singh

*Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented.

So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive.

Nh7 Weekender | India's first Indie Music Festival

Past weekend what India (to be specific -- Pune) experienced was something quite unexpected for an average dude who attends concerts or gigs in India. The Nh7 Weekender Festival/Party was the brainchild of India-based Only Music Louder and two UK-based industry bigwigs, festival organiser Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury, The Great Escape and Lovebox are some of the fests he’s worked on) and artist manager Stephen Budd. From the sound, lights and visual backdrops on stage to the security arrangements on the ground, everything was executed as smoothly and painlessly as it is at festivals abroad. It truly set the mood for the weekend.

The organisers also made an effort to give each of the three outdoor stages—there was one each for rock, electronica and folk/fusion—a distinct vibe. There was the wall of cassette tapes at the bar for the Bacardi Black rock stage; the white-sheeted gaddas at the Dewarists (folk fusion) stage; and the giant disco balls at the entrance of the Eristoff Wolves Den (for electronica).

The event was not only about attracting a typical niche crowd but also the youth who believes in Independent Indian music -- be it rock or alternative or electronica or dubstep or new age -- the performers were fully amped to give intimate performances.

The vibe got better when Susheela Raman & her band were requested by MASI after the concert got over to do a song 'Yeh Mera Diwana Pan' from the movie The Namesake. Susheela immediately agreed and started singing with her band. After few minutes when the crowd didn't exactly knew what was going on we were joined by Indian Ocean who sparked off a great jugalbundi. The music was generously provided by Aref Durvesh on tabla, Tom on guitar, Kutle Khan & Georgie Pope.

To name a few bands which MASI got to attend were -- Susheela Raman, Shaair + Func, Faridkhot (pakistani band), Asian Dub Foundation, Indian Ocean, Lounge Piranha., Tempo Tantrick, Raghu Dixit Project, & Swarathma.

Enjoy the music from the EPIC WEEKEND!

Text - MASI

Sources - Mumbai Boss.com & Billboard.com

Picture courtesy - NH7

NUCLEYA | Goan Electronic Band

Goa’s Nucleya gives a preview of his upcoming Bollywood Remix album, Horn Ok Please, out June 21st on Saregama. Check out the exclusive song preview. Hope YOU like it & remember YOU heard it first on MASI!

Pursuit for Independent Stuff | Yoda Press

YODAKIN

YODA PRESS, a fiercely independent publishing house based in New Delhi, has launched a store for alternative books, periodicals, music and cinema by independent publishers, record labels/musicians and filmmakers.

The new store called YODAKIN is a 400-square-feet ground floor space located at 2 Hauz Khas Village. At a time when retail is ruled by the multinational or the conglomerate entity, this store throws open a space dedicated to marketing and promoting exciting work by some cutting-edge independents in books, music and cinema.

The store intends to keep a viable alternative alive to the more mundane and mass-market-driven mainstream even as it provides more visibility to independents engaged in fresh creative pursuits. Pass the word on, and make it a point to visit YODAKIN---you will keep coming back for more.

2, Hauz Khas Village,

New Delhi 110 16

Store timings: 10:30 am - 8:00 pm

Except Tuesday: 2pm - 8pm

Tel: 011-41787201 and 26536283

Email: info@yodakin.com

Source - http://www.yodakin.com

Love, Sex Aur Dhoka | Handy Cam Movie

Directed by the path breaking Dibakar Banerjee ("Khosla Ka Ghosla", "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!") and produced by Balaji Motion Pictures, "LSD Love Sex aur Dhokha" (loosely translated as Love, Sex and Betrayal) is India's premier digital film -- raw, explicit and has cult cross over written all over it

The synopsis for the February 2010 film reads thus, "Love Sex aur Dhokha is a film about voyeurism. It is essentially about how we have become a generation of voyeurs and flashers simultaneously. This film is about keyhole. On one side of the keyhole is a guy who is peeping in and on other side, there is a person who is hoping that someone is peeping in, and then its us, who are seeing all this. And it is adding bizarre subtext to our society. On television, newspapers, other media, we are obsessed with the most meaningless trivia of what other people are doing about their life."

Controversial Trailer

Title Track

Source: Cnngo.com

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South Indian English Video | They Know How to Shake Their Booty

Mad O Wot | The Coolest Indian Salon in Bombay

Channel [V] | Textually Active

In case you are way too textually active... meaning

you're TEXT/GMAIL-addicted!

Here's a song to help explain it to your not-so-internet people!

LOL!

M.I.A in 2010 | Maya Arulpragasam

Direct from M.I.A. H.Q. at a recording studio in sunny Los Angeles comes this brand new YouTube video that pushes the boundaries of the MacBook screen-mounted camera. Lo-fi and beautiful at the same time, the new video gives us a taste of what's to come from M.I.A.'s new album dropping Summer 2010. Can't wait!

DO CO MO | Design

TATA's DO CO MO, a new GSM phone service in India, launches its creative design for its brand identity & t.v. commercial. These GEOMETRIC design for an Indian company truly has a unique Indian touch to it! DOCOMO comes in a colorful identity package designed by Wolff Olins.


Brand Identity:




T.V. Commercial:

'Slumming' to the tunes

Made In India | Books इंडिया

© Abhinit Khanna, 2009

कॉपीराइट: अभिनीत खन्ना, २००९

To India With Love: From New York To Mumbai | Book

Ask people who have been there, and they’ll all tell you India is like no other place in the world, a land that stirs every one of the five senses and stays in your heart forever.

It is this India that brought together three friends, Waris Ahluwalia, Mortimer Singer and Tina Bhojwani to raise funds, spirits, and awareness for the victims of the attacks in Mumbai in November, 2008.

The editors set out to create a scrapbook–collecting personal photos, stories, and memories from people who, like themselves, love India.

The contributors include Wes Anderson, Adrien Brody, Francesco Clemente, Anthony Edwards, Jeanine Lobell, Natalie Portman, Yves Carcelle, Jean Touitou, Owen Wilson, Laura Wilson, Cynthia Rowley, James Ivory, Matthew Williamson, Rachel Roy, Tory Burch, Padma Lakshmi, Shobhaa De, Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani.

This book declares to Mumbai and the whole country that we are all thinking of them and support them: hence To India, with Love: New York to Mumbai. Profits from the sales of the book will go to support families affected by the attacks. This book can truly make a difference, by opening eyes to the wonders of India and by once again letting the pen—or a camera—dominate the sword.

Proceeds from the book, which was inspired in part by last year’s attacks on Mumbai, will benefit the Taj Public Service Welfare Trust.

Dhruv Dhawan | Documentary & Commercial Filmmaker

Directing Showreel - Dhruv Dhawan - Documentary & Commercial Films from Dhruv on Vimeo.

Dhruv dhavan nurtured his passion for documentary filmmaking, studying cultural anthropology at Duke University and film direction at the new york film academy.

Dhruv employs his skills as a documentary film maker to replicate a credible and emotive fabric in the advertising and corporate work. He has also harnessed the prowess of internet video to create interactive marketing and recruitment tools for his clients website.

His documentary work has garnered critical acclaim from the International Press, Human Rights Groups and the Film Festival Circuit. He is two time nominee for the best international documentary award in New York and Toronto and the recipient of the MIPDOC Co-Pro Challenge Award at the Cannes.

Kiran Ahuwalia | Songlines Music Award Winner

“This is the first time you’ve had the Songlines Music Awards, right?” asks Kiran Ahluwalia down the phone from the US.

She’s the winner in the Newcomer category, inevitably the one that’s going to throw up interesting new names. “Wow,” she gasps, “I’ve been part of history-making with Songlines.”

Sometimes a record turns up that just gets under your skin. There’s the warm, silky voice which twists and slips seductively around a yearning melody and the sweet tingling sound of Portuguese guitar and accordion. And that’s just the first song. Other numbers on Wanderlust are accompanied by more typical Indian instruments like tabla and sarangi, as the voice swoons and subtle harmonies slip one to another. Ahluwalia creates an intoxicating world of heightened emotions – something that ghazal singers in India have been doing for hundreds of years. But Wanderlust is different.

She was born in India, but moved around between Patna, the capital of India’s poorest state, Bihar, and New Delhi. Her family is Sikh, but she was educated in a Catholic school. “We listened to the radio and a lot of records at home – ghazals and Bollywood,” Ahluwalia recalls. “My mum would write down songs from the radio and I would try and memorise them. Some were quite erotic and my mother got embarrassed about the words.” At the same time she was singing Sikh hymns in the temple every Friday.

Courtesy: © Simon Broughton, originally published in the June 2009 #60 issue of Songlines