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Saturday, 2 May 2009

MINISTRY OF SOUND - MAY 2009

Party Bangaloreans at Ministry of Sound

Date: 2nd May 2009
Time: 11:30 pm to 2:00 am
Place: Ministry of Sound, Elephant and Castle, London, United Kingdom
Attendees: Anand Managoli, Shyla Lakhan, Gautam, Vivek, Geetha K,Sushma Kumble, Gopi Aswath, Sneha Divakar, Naveena Syam, Anand Murugan, Shreyas, Piyush Kedia, Manoj Khatwani, Sudhanshu Jain and Sunny Chabria.(

After dinner 16 of us headed to Ministry of Sound to party through the night.

DINERS CLUB - MAY 2009


At Imli Restaurant

Date: 2nd May 2009
Time: 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Place: 167-169 Wardour St, London, W1F 8WR, United Kingdom
Attendees: Anand Managoli, Shyla Lakhan, Gautam, Vivek, Geetha K,Sushma Kumble, Gopi Aswath, Sneha Divakar, Naveena Syam, Anand Murugan, Marjorie GK, RameshSR, Shreyas, Piyush Kedia, Manoj Khatwani and Sudhanshu Jain.(same order left to right in the photograph)

With 5 friends from Dubai and Bangalore on a back pack trip across europe the Bangaloreas in London hosted a dinner for them all at Imli restaurant, an indian tapas bar in Soho, London. After a wonderful dinner a birthday surprise with a candle lit in an ice cream awaited one of those back packers. The biggest turnout with 17 people thus far was a pleasant evening.

Saturday, 25 April 2009

RENDEZVOUS APRIL 2009

Rendezvous April 2009 :
When: 5:00 Pm, 25 April 2009, Saturday
Where: Starbucks, 201 Wood Lane, Media Village, BBC TV Centre, London W12 7TU (White City/Wood Lane)

A low turnout of just 5 people on this beautiful evening at the BBC media village.

Friday, 27 March 2009

Music for Mind & Soul : Outstanding British Asian Musicians



Date: Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: 8 South Audley Street
Street: W1K 1HF

Two of the finest North and South Indian musicians join together to present a unique musical duet with tabla accompaniment, playing a selection of ragas from both the traditions with some new music written specially for this collaboration. The beautiful sound of sitar blends well with the Violin and both complement each other exploring the moods of the ragas.

One of the senior most Sitar players based in the UK, Dharambir Singh has trained under the late maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan. Known for his contribution to Indian music education in the UK, he was the first artistic director of SAMYO (National South Asian Youth Orchestra) and TARANG (UK’s Indian classical music ensemble).

One of the finest violinists from India belonging to the younger generation, Bangalore Balu Raguraman trained under leading maestros including Late Ulsoor S Chandrasekhar, A Sundharesan and V V Subramaniam. He is a dedicated teacher at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London since 1997.

One of the most virtuoso tabla players of the Benaras style of tabla playing and a student of Prof Biswanath Bose and Pandit Kumar Bose, Kousic Sen blends the styles of Farukhabad and Banaras in his own unique way.


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Saturday, 24 January 2009

RENDEZVOUS JANUARY 2009


Date: 24th January 2009
Time: 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Place: Westfields Shopping Centre, Shepards Bush and
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2BU
Attendees: Vivek Viswanathan, Sandra Mendonca, Sunny Chabria, Jutika Gehani, Gopi Aswath, Vivek $, Manoj Khatwani,Tejaswi Jagadish, Ramesh SR, Piyush Kedia.(same order left to right in the photograph)

A start to a new year and time again for a gathering of people who sang the same song and breathed the same air, sometime in Bangalore. The truly Global Bangaloreans after meeting up at the Buttercups cake shop and spending time in westfields headed to Ye Olde Cheshire; one of UK's oldest pubs which was renovated in 1667.

A wonderful bunch of people with some new faces and great to see so many lively international Bangaloreans.

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20090124 BangaloreansInLondon

Saturday, 4 October 2008

Saturday, 12 July 2008

Rendezvous July 2008

Date: 12th July 2008
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Place: HR Higgins Coffee Man, 79 Duke Street, London W1K 5AS
Attendees: RameshSR, Divya Kaiwar, Ajit Kaiwar & Vivek

After a bit of hiccup and lost enthusiasm to conduct any of the meet ups for the community, I said well life goes on, i love visiting coffee shops and in spite of who comes or not i shall go and sit in the coffee shops and if someone does turn up its just an added bonus. An interest from about 10 people prior to the meet saw a turnout of only 3. I myself was delayed by 1:30 hrs due to problem with the central line on the underground. When i did reach exactly when the coffee shop was closing, met up with Ramesh whom i already knew and the couple of Divya and Ajit.

HR Higgins, the coffee shop is a small coffee shop off Bond Street and has a wide variety of coffee and tea's. The coffee shop is located downstairs and has very limited seating. They serve a range of coffee's and tea's along with cakes and biscuits.
A nice place to spend an evening.