Met a few members of a music group, Mile Sur Mera Tumhara in Hyderabad, and spent time getting to know each other better. Namratha Muralidhar, Lakshmi Rajagopal and Sita Verghese (introduced by Kinnera Murthy to the group), me and my wife-an honorary member-made the party. We met in Begumpet.
It is rare for strangers (mostly) to be such great friends that you want to meet as often as you can. In groups large or small- as small as 2 too! One such group is of music aficionados which I joined around 10 years ago, at the urging of a former student from XIMB. I did it without too much of expectations. But what I got from it is a bunch of music-crazy friends who I learn from - about music, and life, every day. I am not joking. We have met physically twice before COVID and online a couple of times during COVID, but smaller meets keep happening when we visit each other's cities. We also add our friends who like Hindi music to the group. Some pics from our Bangalore meet in March 2020.
Proof that she sings- a shy Rajni Verma, did pretty well. Others did not need a lot of prodding!
More of them-
Akshat Surana, Sampark Sachdeva, Ishan and Ankita Joshi, Khyati Jha, Siri Adi, Nagendra Rao, Omprakash and Geeta Chaudhary, Indira Kanagasabai, Rajan Mani, Venkatesh Gopalan, Lalita, Usha and Shiva, Ravindra Marghade, Rajni and Rimjhim Verma, Subbu, Mohan Gopalratnam, Lakshmi Rajgopal, Namratha Muralidhar, Poonam Bhatia, Muralimohan K., Bharath Shenoy, Shreya Sengupta, Tanaya Kar, Sharmishtha Singh, Shweta Agarwal, Supriya Shenoy, Roopsha Chatterjee, Sugandha Kumari, Bidipta, Harnam Kaur, Murtaza Kuwarawala, Navroze Sethna, Meha Kapoor, Abhinav Kamal, Girija Vemaraju, J. Radhika, ...
to be continued ..
