Webinar – New Trends in ERP Support

New Trends in ERP Support

09th July 2009 – 16:00 to 17:00 (IST)

Presented by Mr. Vedantham SVP, Technology Solutions

Join Mr. V Vedantham for a live webinar that focuses on increasing organizational efficiency through ERP and explore the new trends in its implementation and support.

The integration of large back office systems into a single system process provides robust business value to organizations by easily sharing information with all systems & departments. By providing value in terms of reducing costs and automating the workflow process, your clients are served better.

However many companies are unable to predict the pain areas during post-implementation phases of ERP systems. This has become a growing problem since there just isn’t any time for companies to find appropriate skilled professionals to tweak and continuously improve functionality of the systems in place. By prioritizing and enhancing maintenance and support activities, you can avail of a high degree of transparency that will not only lead you to financial gain but also to explore and invest in new market areas.

Points to be discussed

1. What are the complexities and challenges involved in ERP support?
2. What are the current pain areas of Indian companies in terms of availing of ERP support?
3. How does ERP Clinic- an MGL concept for ERP support – work?
4. What are the benefits of ERP Clinic?
5. How to reduce risks and costs through ERP Clinic?

Who can attend?

CEO, CFO, CTO, Head of IT and Finance, Directors, COO and everyone interested in ERP

Your Esteemed Speaker Mr. V Vedantham has a total of 37 years of industry experience of which 33 years were dedicated to IT areas of design, development and implementation manufacturing applications. He began his career as an Industrial Engineer in BHEL, Trichy and then moved on to head the software product development wing at Mascon Technical Services.  He has also played the role of consultant in a number of manufacturing engagements as well. Currently he is the Senior Vice President, Technology Solutions at Mascon Global Limited and is extensively involved in setting up and managing large ERP practices with main focus on SAP.

This Webinar is FREE!

Oracle/SAP ERP Implementation – Join MGL’s New Trends In ERP Support

MGL SAP – ERP

Found in 1981, Mascon Global Limited (MGL) has grown to be known as a global provider of technology services with offices and software development centers across USA, Mexico, Europe, Australia and Asia. For the past 28 years, MGL has been the innovation partner of choice for blue chip firms around the world, ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. Since 1998, MGL has nurtured a robust and time-tested SAP practice that has expanded from a traditional on-site delivery model into an offshore centric, remote delivery services model. With a strong base in delivering SAP end-to-end solutions and a proven track record in full life cycle implementations, MGL is also a market leader in the “outsourcing using global delivery model”, which includes the following areas:

• ABAP maintenance (SAP versions 3.x and above)
• Offshore programming support
• SAP upgrades from any lower version to 4.6c/4.7
• SAP BW reporting and business Intelligence
• SAP help desk
• Post implementation audits, strategy studies

MGL’s service offerings include:

• SAP implementation, rollouts and upgrades
• SAP Application Maintenance Outsourcing (AMO)
• SAP mobile computing
• NetWeaver, SAP WebAS, J2EE, .Net
• SAP product services – Portals, BI, SEM, CRM, SCM

MGL ORACLE - ERP

MGL has established a dedicated Oracle practice to offer best-in-breed, cost-effective implementation, customization, and consulting services across various industries all over the world. Through continuous improvement in technologies and processes, MGL’s Oracle practice has grown to provide its clients with upgraded solutions in Oracle eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft Applications Database Administration, Fusion Middleware, and Fusion Applications, as well as functional areas such as Human Resources Management System (HRMS), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Financials and Customer Relation Management. As one of the select few Oracle Certified Solution Partners (OCSP) MGL has also established competencies in Hyperion, Seibel and other Oracle-acquired applications. MGL has over 375 consultants experienced in multiple verticals to bring about an optimum balance of utilization and costs throughout the project lifecycle. With experienced consultants familiar with the use of Oracle Applications Implementation Methodology (AIM) for implementing, planning, delivering upgrades and customization of Oracle Applications, MGL has established an Offshore Development Center (ODC) for some of our key clients.

MGL’s service offerings in Oracle practice are as follows

• Development
• Implementation

Ø Financials

Ø Distribution

Ø Manufacturing (Discrete & Process)

Ø HRMS & Payroll

Ø ALM

Ø DBI

Ø Portal

• Upgrades
• Customization

• Reports, KPI and dashboards
• Migration from other systems
• External application integration
• Oracle development services

With database and application maintenance growing to be time-consuming and expensive in today’s economy, MGL’s Oracle Applications DBA services successfully alleviate these disadvantages by providing clients with 24/7 integrated solutions that aim at flexibility and assurance of quality.

MGL’s DBA practice typically covers the following primary service components

• Monitoring and Control
• Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
• Configuration Management
• Implementation/Upgrade/Migration
• System Maintenance
• System Administration and Monitoring

For Further Clarification, contact m.rajesh@mgl.com

MGL key offerings for manufacturing industry range from custom- built solutions to productized solutions
like EZPlastic, which is built on SAP platform. With a dedicated center of excellence for manufacturing in
EZPlastic is a tightly integrated Plastics industry
specific business solution built on SAP ERP. It has all
the powerful features of world class SAP software,
along with a vast array of functionalities designed
specifically for Plastics processing industry.
Products
Chennai and a strong force of around 700 professionals, MGL serves clients such as Eastman Kodak, Vulcan Materials, Ford,
Nikon, Motorola, Panasonic etc.

Get Over The Recession, Get Into MGL’s Advanced Bioinformatics

MGL Health care and Life Sciences division provides you an excellent opportunity to excel yourself in advanced bioinformatics by learning and understanding the exclusive industry accepted tools and technology in Bio-informatics as a part of training

Over the past six years, MGL has been conducting certified bioinformatics training programs for students from leading academic institutions. Our intention is not only to provide these candidates with greater exposure to quality training, but also to offer them career guidance in this rapidly burgeoning field. Upon successful completion of this training program, many of our former students have now started their professional careers and have also commenced publishing their projects in international conferences.

Objectives

• To expose students to engineering experience, a real’ working environment and get them acquainted with the organization structure, business operations and administrative functions which are not taught in classroom

• To have hands-on experience in their related field so that they can relate and reinforce what has been taught at their university and also share the experience gained from industry in their classrooms.

• To foster cooperation and to develop synergetic collaboration between industry and the university in promoting a knowledgeable society

• To gain exposure on drug discovery data and procedural flow management and implementation and technical report writing in projects

• To provide exposure for the student towards the prospective future employers

• To apply the concept of Bioinformatics efficiently in biotechnology labs

• To teach concept of intellectual properties and its importance in the organization and in the country’s growth to the students

Learning Outcome

• Gain exposure to the actual working environment in the industry and the business

• Develop awareness of the importance and the capability of adapting to the working environment and culture of a job

• Possess enhanced communication and team-working skills.

• Develop awareness of the requirements and expectation of industry on employees

• Relate and apply the knowledge learned in the university for IP led work in Industry

Course Offerings

Crash Course (1 week)
Basics of bioinformatics and various bioinformatics tools
Training with projects (2 to 6 months – 300 hours to 1000 hours)
Advanced bioinformatics training including projects spanning 1 to 2 months or 3 to 6 months
Combo Courses (2 months- 300 hours)
In-silico drug designing procedures and PERL programming language with practical

* These courses are intended for candidates who have either completed or currently pursuing their graduation or post graduation in the Biological discipline or Quantitative Science

Highlights

• Genomics – Phylogeny and Phylogenetic Methods, Comparative Genomics

• Proteomics – Structural Bioinformatics, Molecular modeling

• Cheminformatics – Pharmacophore design, Molecular docking, Toxicity screening

• PERL and Bioinformatics – PERL Basics, Intermediate and Advanced, Biological databases, Sequence analysis and alignment, Evolutionary analysis

For further clarifications,
Email: m.rajesh@mgl.com

Can SOA predict IT slowdown?

Hariharan VG, SOA Architect, writes…

I strongly believe that this is the right time to discuss the future of IT. Almost all IT players are feeling the heat of IT slowdown. The world economy is melting down; most of the business sectors have crashed. And everyone is wondering why this is happening when they have the best IT teams?

IT has demonstrated major enlargement for the past 20 years in terms of new technologies, tools, methodologies and standards. Most of modern tools and technologies have been adopted, developed and implemented by major business players, but still IT is not completely able to help organizations predict the market, financial standing and strategies. Is IT inefficient to forecast the future market and financial strategy? Certainly not; so far IT just played a supporting role for enterprises. It is clearly proves that even though IT as sector has superior, but still it is not considered as backbone of enterprise business.

Business strategy drives IT strategy

Most of the enterprise case studies show that IT strategies and policies are defined and derived based on enterprise business strategies. This means that in most of the cases business strategies drive IT strategy and policy without IT actually playing any major role in driving business strategies. But business and IT should work together for defining enterprise strategies for predicting slowdown. Ideally, if it is a singular enterprise strategy, this would give more room for IT to play major role in predicting potential of enterprises. Service Oriented Architecture is the best architecture approach that can help implement enterprise strategies and predict future requirements and actions to handle the world market.

SOA – Key player

Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural approach, which involves business and IT strategies defining enterprise businesses. When I say architecture, I’m not talking about an application or system architecture, but rather about an enterprise business architecture. Implementing SOA requires 70% of tools / technologies and 30% of management methodologies. SOA implementation technologies include Web Services, Security and Messaging standards, ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Master Data Management, Data Mashup, Data Integration, BPM (Business Process Management), BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), Work Flow, Web Portal and Data Warehousing. SOA management methodologies include Governance, SLA, Policies and Implementation strategy, Business Activity Monitoring and Management and Project Management. I am not saying all the above are required for each enterprise, but still it can be adopted based on enterprise business plan and needs.

Since SOA approach dismantles the enterprises business as services and processes, it is easy to monitor and manage the performance and efficiencies of business processes. In earlier application approaches, entire enterprise systems used to built as single units. So management did not have control to identify the weakness of business. But SOA’s business activity monitoring and management helps identify the weakness of business process to rectify that immediately.

Since the enterprise business is built as pieces of services, it is effortless to remove or plugin new/existing modules and processes. Any economic and market change can be adopted immediately with the existing enterprise process which could drastically reduce the slowdown risk.

Governance, SLAs and policies help implement the SOA approach in the enterprise without creating an impact at the resource and management level. Service level agreements are ensuring prediction of weak service areas and identification of reasons behind the weaknesses. Policies and standards also help the enterprise implement standards and procedures, which will give them better control for management to make right decisions at right time.

Tools selection

The critical part of SOA implementation is selecting the right software tool for appropriate need. I would suggest referring Eric Roch’s blog entry on SOA tools.

Confessions of an event organizer, part 1

Arvind Shashidhar, Central Marketing Operations (Chennai), writes…

Ever thought about how you go about doing things in your life. No!!! Well, you should… Just have to rewind and you will realize that your life in more ways than one has been and will always be one big event sans the time frame.

Recently, I was given this opportunity, which is what I thought then, to coordinate an event wholly sponsored by my company. All the education and experience that I had got until then would not prepare me for it.

Event Management is like a jig-saw puzzle waiting to be solved. Unlike its bigger picture counterpart – “LIFE”, it has got a time limit to it and therefore postponement of any kind is not an option. All you can try to do is to put the pieces together and search for the next logical move. The moment you relax, chances are someone else will rearrange the entire puzzle to your utter dismay. That is when you realize that you are not in charge.

“When it rains, it pours” – Everything around me came crashing down just when I thought I had it all figured out. I was still rattled by its after effects that when my boss asked me after the event if I was ready for the next challenge, I couldn’t help but curse myself for blurting out those three, now over ambitious, words – “I want challenges” during my last appraisal meeting with my boss.

So, I started fresh by drafting an elaborate checklist for the event. The few points below should throw some light on what to do.

• Make an Event Management Checklist – Pen down anything and everything that comes to your mind. Be it even the most miniscule of things
• Separate the tasks into four sections – Pre-event activities, Event day activities, Post-event activities and Ongoing activities
• Make sure you know everyone involved with the event and also gather their contact details
• Clearly mark out each person with their responsibilities and communicate it to them
• Follow-up on these responsibilities with the concerned person

Any task assigned to you should be deftly passed on to a team, except for the anchor role. If you want this event to go well you better not involve yourself in the nitty-gritty of the event. You are needed to handle the big picture.

Pray that no one surprises you with last minute adjustments. However much you make provision for these adjustments the more time you go into detail and less time you have to manage the show.

My boss’s words “Heads will roll” seemed more a reality and less of a joke as the event day approached. But thanks to a very supportive team we put one and one together to make three.

How?!

Well, the event was a grand success with more than expected responses. We are replicating this event soon. Only this time around you wouldn’t find me in the vicinity. I wouldn’t find me in the vicinity. Thank you, but no thanks!

I would rather manage my life and procrastinate.

Stay tuned and unplugged for part two…coming soon.

You’re never too old to socialize…online

Christy Bharath, Central Marketing Operations (Chennai), writes…

It’s a well-known fact that kids these days spend time as much evaluating their lives on social networking websites as they do in the real world. What started as a phenomenon to stay in touch with old friends and classmates has metamorphosed into a giant blob of virtual social behavior that has taken no prisoners and left fewer survivors! Quite simply put, with the advent of the social networking phenomenon, it became obvious that any teenager with a PC and a reasonable Internet connect could change the way the virtual society perceived himself/herself to be. Somewhere down the line, they also deemed it to be more important than how the actual world perceived them to be.

So, is it in fact all about youngsters groveling for attention and seeking the fruitful consequences of having a virtual social life? The cynical technophobe inside me would like to think so, but then he would be drastically wrong. Social networking websites have their eyes set on adults, as well – which makes sense, considering that adults outweigh the kids in terms of Internet usage! Apart from popular websites such as LinkedIn and Spoke, lesser-known networking communities such as YorZ, Ziggs and HubSpot have started acting as forums for business entrepreneurs to share discourses and to market their ideas. Even those who are environmentally friendly in the corporate world have private networks all for themselves.

Looks like Internet entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the fact that adults too want to stay connected to each other, if given a choice and if the consequences of staying connected are endearing enough.

So stand back, Generation Next…Generation Way Back Then has broadband!

Five business-based social networks to watch out for in 2009

Ecademy

Tribe

Livebiznet

XING

Zenobank

1980’s Cool Dude vs 2009’s Chill Dude: A metaphorical study of technology

Albin Xavier, Business Development Team (Chennai), writes…

“Cool Dude” wakes up in the morning as his mother splashes cold water on his face and looks for Dabur Lal Dant Manjan to start off the day. He proudly plays Aakash Vani on his stereo to inform the neighbours and everyone else within the 100 km radius that the “Cool Dude” is ready to rock the world. He irons his bell-bottom pants and puts on an expensive shirt, one that he made sure had all the colours of a rainbow. He consumes idlies prepared by mother, hops on his Vespa and rides the streets, often stopping to see if people at the bus stand are turning green in envy. “Cool Dude” finds himself surprisingly jealous of the chap driving an ambassador car in front and completely aware that no one is paying any attention to his miniature street hawk. He shrugs off such emotions and goes to the bank to transfer some money to his friend who once did him a favour that he currently has no memory of.

On his way back, he stops at the junction and chats with his buddies about how desperately they need a political revolution and how the current government is ignoring the working-class. Then along with his friends, he rushes off to the nearby movie theatre to see Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Laawaris’. He even whistles when Big B appears on screen. Of course, our “Cool Dude” returns home early to see Chitrahaar. During dinnertime, his parents start advising on career and life much to his annoyance. He then goes for a well-deserved rest after an eventful day.

Decades have passed…

Another “Chill Dude” wakes up in the morning after the alarm in his mobile phone switches to snooze mode a couple of times. Right after a super quick breakfast and other morning chores, he listens to the latest music album downloaded on his mobile with wireless headsets. He nods his head to the music while browsing through Facebook via his mobile. “Chill Dude” takes about 20 minutes to come up with a status message. He then uses the mobile banking facility to transfer funds to his friend who once had sent him a beer on Facebook. He puts on a pre-ironed six-pocket Khakis and a branded T-shirt. Everyone within the 100 km could see the logo of the brand. Feeling so happy about the brand he has built up for himself, “Chill Dude” narcissistically takes a few photos using his mobile’s in-built 3.2 megapixel camera.

He then hops on his Pulsar and hits the roads only to find people indifferent to how “Chill” he really is. He tries a few wheelies and few other tricks to defy gravity and more importantly, grab some attention. On his way to meet friends, he sees a Bentley breezing through. He grinds his teeth and mutters to himself that one day he will own a Bentley. He meets his pals and shows them the ‘Ghajini’ movie tickets that he had booked online using his mobile phone. Unfortunately, he misses the climax because of a wrong number call, which he had mistaken to be that person who had once called him regarding a loan. After a late night party at a friend’s place, “Chill Dude” returns home to find every one asleep. He says a prayer for all the advancements in mobile technology and another one to Bill Gates, and then goes to sleep.

Chennai’s music season 2009: Good times, better memories

This year MGL Unplugged had the privilege of covering the memorable concerts that took place during the 34^th Year Arts Festival organized by Kartik Fine Arts; not just as sponsors of the event, but more so as fans of a beloved traditional art form. We have tried to capture the essence of these concerts, as well as the spirit of artists who have so diligently kept us entertained for over a month.

It has been our intention to capture the spirit of Carnatic music through MGL Unplugged and we hope that our recollection of Chennai’s musical journey in December has attenuated your senses both visually and expressively. Since most of the concerts were scintillating with rich performances by a diverse crop of musicians, we have no doubt that this experience will stay embedded in our memory.

As we have been saying so, music is an expression of society’s culture and we consider our patronization of this illustrious art form to be more than just corporate social responsibility. We almost felt obliged to lend our support to Kartik Fine Arts in hope that it’s spirit will resonate melodies in MGL’s corporate world!

We also would like to remind our dear readers about the associated musician’s portal – hellomusician.com that lets musicians utilize this free space for showcasing their profiles in a digital repository to the entire virtual audience. As a technology solutions provider, MGL proudly supports each and every one of these musicians with zeal to hopefully cultivate their legacies. Whether it would be through websites, portals, CBT, WBT, e-learning, digital media repositories or eCommerce, we certainly hold the credibility to integrate a technology backbone into musicians’ creative logs!

We do request all the Carnatic musicians in Chennai to approach us for further information on how we can team up to spread the mystique and beauty of Carnatic music.

A legendary poet once said that music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. At MGL Unplugged, we try to find a balance between the two…for the sake of Chennai’s ever-growing Carnatic fanbase and more importantly, for music itself.

Hyderabad Brothers bring tradition to the limelight

Hyderabad Brothers – Vocal

S. Varadarajan – Violin

Karaikudi R. Mani – Mridangam

V. Suresh – Kanjira

The evening began with the crowd eagerly anticipating the day’s performance. With the critically-acclaimed Hyderabad Brothers behind the screen and their co-artists on the stage getting ready with their instruments, the hall was buzzing with excitement.

Niravathi Sukadha – Ravichandrika – Adi was the first piece to be performed. Chitta Swaram was rendered in a more traditional fashion as the accompaniments tried to gloss over the rhythms with dynamic strokes.

Their version of ‘Teliyaleru Rama’, Dhenuka (Adi) literally moved the audience and tugged at our heartstrings as the Raga along with the verses of Thyagaraja created a unique feeling of stepping towards the almighty ones. It basically showcased the devotional aspects of the Carnatic music. It was in full Bhava when Hyderabad Brothers gave finishing touches of the Raga as Karaikudi R Mani carried the piece with his unique stokes.

Lathangi was really modernized and I need to mention that it was another unique facet of today’s concert. Never-before heard sangathis were spotted by Hyderabad Brothers and interpreted beautifully. Varadarajan added his flavor with his strings, as he was able to strike perfect rhythm. ‘Aparadha Moolan’ fulfilled the desires of the audience, as did Swaram while rendering a faster pace for the item. Korvai was drenched in reverbs with rhythmic passion. KRM, as usual, added more creativity to the item with due support from Suresh.

Rithi Gowlai, Nannuvidachi and Gaanamoorthe were a few amongst the most familiar pieces, which the audience could recognize and enjoy to the fullest. Seshachari even rendered the fabulous Harikambhoji with more unique touches in Raga. The Raga by itself is an embodiment of divine Carnatic music and is also the primary concern in ‘Tamil Pann’.

So melodious and enjoying it was that when Seshachari even showed varieties of it and indicated the flexibility of the Raga. The Hyderabad Brothers possess a very versatile style of singing even though their appearance is simple and traditional. The famous ‘Dhinamani Vamsa’ was the hit of the day. They modulated the song to let the audience feel the essence of music. Had the stage ever been prone for experiments, this time they tested more of their knowledge in mathematics and it is sad to notice that they were unsuccessful.

Trying Misra Koraipu led them into trouble even with KRM helped them with his favourite snippets. KRM has worked more on the Koraipu and his repertoire of various Koraipu (Misra Koraipu, Thisra Koraipu etc) is admirable and fairly sufficient for any artist to think rationally and explore the beauty of this wonderful art. So was his Thani when he attempted to play more unique and elegant rhythmic pieces and let Suresh to turn back to the audience. Suresh was in a spirit of entertaining as he played more calculations to integrate with KRM. It was almost a mess when KRM attempted to showcase a different Mohara Korvai, but that was compensated with his spirit to perform more on stage. Ethanai Sonnalum, Saveri was next and finally Alasaara Parithapam was the concluding piece of the day.

As one knows, music can be endless like the ocean. I personally think that musicians should try to capture as many seashells as they can! It’s their confidence level and continued effort that gains them the edge they need as performers and understanding their own capability and fluency for the moment is the key aspect of any performance art. Cultural organizations should take care to engage the right kind of artists to entertain their audience. In general, the quality of performance is directly proportional to the density of the crowd!

Artist-Rasika Twine: It’s the duty of every musician to entertain every audience at all levels. On the other hand, the Rasikas should also raise themselves to understand the music, enjoy and appreciate the artist for their right versions. Of course they form the primary feedback for the artists’ growth. If one knows how to achieve their adoration, he/she will stay ever in the minds of the rasikas like our yesteryears’ stalwart Madurai Mani Iyer whose music was enjoyed and appreciated even by music teetotalers!

A melodious evening with Gayathri Girish

Gayathri Girish – Vocal

V. Sanjeev – Violin

K Sivakumar – Mridangam

Sri Sundar Kumar – Kanjira

The evening started with a CD release of ‘Raga Manjari’ by vocalist Gayathri Girish. Sri Ragunathan, who orchestrated the album, received the first copy and spoke a few words highlighting Gayathri’s past performances and her abilities to present unique musical themes.

The concert began with a Panthuvarali Varnam (Saami Ninee), which was followed by Seethapathey Namanasuna as Gayathri was looking to settle down with her melodious reverbs for the rest of the evening. It was Virutham in Madhyamavathi that grabbed the attention of the audience, as they were vocally impressed by the song – Aaadhathu Asangaathu. Some of them even started humming the tune! When the masterpiece ‘Oothukadu Venkatasubaiyer’ began, I recalled ‘Pithukuli Murugadas’ who once popularized this. Gayathri herself was proficient in rendering Saahithya with Bhava – the exquisite ingredients of Carnatic music. I guess music is a devotional language, which can communicate beyond limits to reflect one’s inner self.

Mesmerizing melodies in Sahaana were clear evidence that Gayathri put forth her efforts to impress the Rasikas with the magnitude of her voice. It was a good attempt and well supported by Sanjeev on violin. He sounded so melodious, which elevated the performance. Also his bowing style gave us the feel of a heavenly sonata. A good teamwork always pays for its success. Giripai, the Krithi was in its full shape when Gayathri sang to brighten up the beauty of Saahithya. Sivakumar and Sundar Kumar were so enthusiastic and resumed with key rhythmic phrases to brace the presentation.

Gayathri then rendered Chintaye Mahalinga Moorthim – a fast paced Krithi to show up her acumen in music pedagogy. She has inherited this talent from her guru Sri T N Seshagopalan, who is versatile in music.

Kalyani – the queen of the day’s concert paved more scope for Gayathri to captivate the audience. She emphasized more on Raga lakshana spindled with melodies utilizing the jeeva swaras Dha, Nee. The alapana associated by flashes of familiar Sangathis was also interesting to hear and I must say, Sanjeev followed her perfectly. His musical strings tied the audience together in silence and enjoyment. Modulations were perfect as he captured the glimpses from her rendition and then improvised. Just goes to show you that a violin requires more continuous notes to be played in order to remain harmonious.

“Raave Parvatha Raja Kumari” in Misra Jampai was rendered in a more traditional fashion. Saahithyam was very clearly pronounced. She sang Neraval at a first pace and rapidly took over to the second and further rendered Swaram and a smart korvai. Sivakumar was precision in his version of Misra Jampai (10 Aksharas). He cleared his rounds with cleanly swept Korvais. Sundarkumar carried the same pace and then showed more varieties with furns and Korvai. Thisra nadai was interesting, to say the least. Finally both of them harmonized to play Mohara and Korvai and that were really awesome.

On a digressive note, Kartik Fine Arts is serving the community of music lovers and musicians with the spirit to develop the sacred arts of our Indian culture. Of course it’s a great endeavor to satisfy every element of this magnitude. In bygone eras, this could have been a mammoth task, as it demands more financial support to run these events. But now, it’s an era of corporate culture aligning with organizations like Kartik Fine Arts and support such events in order to bring in a rich cultural experience into the companies, especially to its employees and their near and dear.

Next in the show was a Ragamaalika ‘Needhaan Thunai’ composing of Ragas Neelambari, Vasantha Bhairavi, Gowri Manohari, Saraswathy, Sriranjani, Mohana Kalyani, Durga, Jyothiswaroopini. Gayathri sang the stanzas, which carried out the names of the respective Ragas. It is quite easy for anyone to know the raga by carefully listening to the piece. She handled the swara in an ascending and descending fashion of the different ragas (Starting from Neelambari – Jythiswaroopini – Neelambari). She was able to establish the charisma of the Ragamalika.

Later she sang ‘Irakam Varamal Ponathenna’ in Behag and concluded her session with Thillana in Sindhubhairavi. It was a thoroughly satisfying concert as each one of us left the hall with a smile on our faces and a tune in our hearts.