As the creator and Benevolent-Dictator-for-Life of the Perl project, Larry Wall is a regular rock star in the world of programming. After his talk at Kshitij ’11, The Scholars’ Avenue caught up with Larry and his wife Gloria for some intellectually stimulating conversation on Perl, Linguistics, Religion and much more.
TSA: How has your stay been [...]
A disciple of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Subhen Chatterjee is an internationally acclaimed tabla player. Founder of the popular fusion band, Bandish Fusion, he has performed with many eminent personalities which includes the likes of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Shahid Parvezi amongst others. His band performed at Spring Fest this year with Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt playing as the band’s guest performer.
TSA: Did you [...]
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is a noted slide guitarist. A pioneer in the field of Indian classical music and the creator of Mohan Veena, he is a Padma Shri and has also won a Grammy Award (1994) for his famous album, A Meeting by the River. Having worked with famous musicians such as Ry Cooder, [...]
Chandresh Kudwa is one of India’s most worshipped guitarists, and has played with a number of bands including Thor, Freedom, Nexus, Vedic Chant and Dream Out Loud. He is also involved in a project called Axe-Tortion, a collaboration of various guitarists from across the country. The Scholars’ Avenue caught up with Kudwa this Spring Fest, and he obligingly shared [...]
Indian Ocean is India’s foremost contemporary fusion music band, and has to its credit the first live album released by anIndian band. They were in town recently for Spring Fest 2011, and were kind enough to acquiesce to our request for a Q&A, which is reproduced below.
1. Music that was relaxing, interesting and engaging- all rolled into one memorable [...]
Midway through his term as the VP, The Scholars’ Avenue catches up with Celestine Joseph on the progress of his proposals , his take on some campus buzz and his experience so far.
TSA: Could you shed some light on how effectively your proposals have been executed?
VP: One of the main proposals was to improve [...]
As a campus newspaper, we at The Scholars’ Avenue try our best to make sure that we address as many of the student issues as we can. In an effort to better ourselves in this regard we look to you, our dear readers, to pinpoint specific questions that you would like asked to the administration. [...]
Monday, February 21, 2011
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