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Sruthi - Hariharan & Sarangan in Concert

SRUTHI! Prepare for a night like no other when Indian superstar Hariharan takes to the stage with Sarangan Sriranganathan for a spectacular concert.

Melbourne audiences have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Hariharan and Sarangan in concert. With an entourage of more than 30 instrumentalists, singers and Bollywood dancers on stage, this promises to be a fantastic night filled with colour, soulful singing and the irrepressible rhythms and melodies listeners will remember forever.

Hariharan and Sarangan will be releasing their duet songs, "Aval Pennalla" penned by Pa. Vijay and "Paasam sumanthu" penned by Vairamuthu at the event.

Hariharan, two-time National award winner and the recipient of the prestigious "Padma shree" award, is the undisputed king of contemporary Indian music. An established ghazal and playback singer, his songs embrace Indian, Western and Asian influences, connecting with hearts and minds all over the world. Hariharan holds privilege of inaugurating Common Wealth Games with his composition and rendition of "Swaghatham Song". Professional singing for last 34 years, having sung over 5000 songs in various languages, Hariharan is always ready to experiment and explore with a new style to create a Soulful music.

Sarangan is today appreciated both in the field of Fusion Music and Classical Music as an international phenomenon. A classical Sitar virtuoso, mesmerizing singer and an excellent keyboard player of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have gained him fame all over the world.

Event Information

Saturday, October 22

Indian Jewelery Stores in USA Listings Updated

Gold is one of the biggest things that people from the sub-continent spend their money on. Gold is an important security for many of us. While most of the growth of the Desi business has been in the area of Indian restaurants and grocery stores, Indian Jewelery stores have not lagged far behind. Most of the Desi neighborhoods have one of more jewellery stores. Some of the stores have branches across the country.

These jewellery stores offer various gold and diamond products that may be needed for weddings, religious ceremonies, home decorations etc.

We have just updated our Desi Jewelery listing in the United States and have added another 800 listings in the states listed below.

If you have a desi jewelery business, and would like to add it to our site, you can go ahead and submit it using the "Add to Listings" button in each city. We welcome all your business details, photographs etc.

Dish Network IPTV for Hindi Channels

If you live in the US and want a broad selection of Desi Programming, then your best option is either Dish Network or DirecTV. Unless you live in an area with lot of South Asian population (like NJ or Bay Area), the cable companies probably do not carry the Indian channels. If they do carry, its usually not more than 3 or 4. The satellite companies offer many more channels with Dish Network having the best
offering with over 15 channels including Cricket Channels.

One of the problems, many South Asians face is the headache of getting a dish installed. Most apartments do not allow it or the apartment is not facing the satellite or the state law requires insurance etc. I personally never had a dish till we bought a home.

Dish IPTV now offers the Desi programming (Hindi, Urdu and also Arabic) via the Internet now using a small device that you plugin to the Internet so all the headaches of getting a dish etc are no longer there. The cost of service is the same as what you would pay via the satellite (59.99 for Mega Pack etc). The IPTV device costs $115 (s/h) but is free with one year commitment.

At this point they do not offer other South Asian programming such as Tamil or Telugu channels but it probably will come soon. We are not sure of the quality but services like Netflix provide great quality signals if you have the bandwidth so this should not be any different.

This is a great option for folks from the sub continent who want the programming but do not have to go through the headache of getting a dish installed. If you have used this, we would welcome your comments.

Aarakshan Theatre Release

Aarakshan is an upcoming Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone. Directed by Prakash Jha, who also directed Raajneeti, it is a high voltage socio-political drama based on one of the most controversial policies of caste based reservations in government jobs and educational institutions.

Aarakshan is the story of Prabhakar Anand, an idealistic principal of a college that he has single-handedly turned into the state

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