Where India’s Top Brass Get Their Instruments
No Indian celebration is complete without a brass band. In the country of 1.3 billion people, there are at least 700,000 villages. And each village generally has two or three brass bands. But where do all of the trumpets, trombones and tubas come from? It turns out that 90 percent of the country’s brass bands get their instruments from one street—Jali Kothi Lane—in the city of Meerut. Along this quaint alley, you'll find around 100 instrument makers. One of the most renowned is Nadir Ali and Company, a fourth generation instrument maker whose drums, cornets and trumpets have been setting international standards for quality since 1885.
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Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi...|| Debu Mukherjee & Anushka Gupta || Kishore Kumar Memorial Club || 2018
A tribute to Legendary Kishore Kumar & R. D. Burman by Singer Debu Mukherjee & Anushka Gupta (Delhi) by singing a song Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi... (duet of Kishore Kumar- Lata Mangeshkar) from the film Aandhi (1975) music composed by Legendary R. D. Burman and lyrics by Gulzar which was picturised on Sanjeev Kumar & Suchitra Sen in a musical tribute programme Koi Lauta De.. organized by Kishore Kumar Memorial Club, New Delhi
KKMC presents
Musical Programme Koi Lauta De Mere Beete Huye Din... (A tribute to Kishore Da)
Organized by : Kishore Kumar Memorial Club, New Delhi (kkmc.co.in) under the direction of Kamal Dhiman
Date : 13th October, 2018
Venue: - Pearey Lal Bhawan (Gandhi Memorial Hall), I.T.O. New Delhi.
Singers of the Evening:- Alok Joshi (Khandwa), Anandita (Jabalpur), Anurag Bhandari (Delhi), Anushka Gupta (Delhi), Bhaskar Thakur (Kolkata), Chandni (Delhi), Debu Mukherjee (Delhi), Deepak Verma (Delhi), Mumtaz (Delhi), Nadeem (Delhi), Neeta Kishore (Mumbai), Piyush (Delhi), Rajesh Ghosh (Andaman & Nicobar), Rehan (Delhi), Sreeju Premarajan (Delhi), Stutee Tiwari (Delhi), Sunil Gadhia (Rajkot), Dr. Suneet Sekhri (Delhi), Surojit Mukherjee (Delhi)
Compered by:- I. P. Singh Bawa
Music Orchestration:- DO-RE-MI Band
Band Leader - Satish Popli (Director - DO-RE-MI)
Keyboard - Jaswant Popli
Saxophone & Flute - Ashok Sharma
Octapad - Franki
Lead & Rhythm Guitar - Manmohan Ghai
Tabla, Dholak & Bongo - Vinod Kumar Kashyap
Dholak & Handsonik - Sanjay Suji
Keyboard Harmony - R. K. Ganesh
Bass Guitar - Manoj Das
Drums - Parveen Kapoor
Light & Sound:- N. K. Audio Care
Event by: - Kriti Entertainers
Photography by: S. R. Films & Mehta Studio
Video by: - Deepak Sharma, Incredible Films India
Editing by: Kamal Dhiman & Deepak Sharma
LED Operator:- Tanuj
Flexes & Banners by: Satish Kumar
Backdrop (LED) Presentation & Art Direction:- D. C. Maurya & Ashish Kaushal
Floor Manager:- Raju Sah & Keshav Prasad Sen
Stage Management:- Baij Nath Gosa
Rehearsal Director:- Mohd. Rehan
Photo Exhibition & Overall Arrangements: Parveen Sharma, President - KKMC
Concept, Script & Direction:- Kamal Dhiman, Founder & Gen. Secy. - KKMC
Patrons & Advisory Board:- Leena Ganguly, Amit Kumar, Bhuppi, Shankar Sahney, Lala Ram, C. P. Sharma, Rajesh Gupta, Amarjit Singh Kohli, Brahmrishi Jiteshwaranand, Col. Dalmir Singh, O.P. Verma, Vinod Tiwari, I. P. Singh Bawa, Satish Popli, Jaswant Popli, Keshav Dhasmana, Vipin Raheja, Dr. Durgesh Tripathi, Ishwar Gupta, Prabhat Mishra, Lakhwant Singh
Executive Members: Parveen Sharma, D. C. Maurya, Kamal Dhiman, Mohd. Rehan, Sushil Upadhyay, Shammi Kaushal, Charanjeet Kapoor, Raj Dogra, Sunil Parmar, Deepak Sharma, Prashanto Adhikari, Ashish Kaushal, Vijay Dewan, Narendra, Baijnath Gosa, Surender
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RSTV Vishesh – 22 June, 2018: NSG in Kashmir | कश्मीर में एनएसजी
Government has decided to deploy National Security Guards in counter insurgency operations. In this episode we talk about this decision, try to explore about the quality, composition and work of NSG.
जम्मू और कश्मीर में राज्यपाल शासन लागू होने के बाद राज्य में राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा गार्ड... यानि एनएसजी की तैनाती की जा रही है। एनएसजी न सिर्फ विशेष परिस्थितियों में आतंकवादियों पर सीधी कार्रवाई करेगा... बल्कि जम्मू-कश्मीर पुलिस के साथ-साथ... सीआरपीएफ को भी.. सघन आबादी वाले क्षेत्रों में आतंकियों से मुक़ाबले के लिए प्रशिक्षित भी करेगा। विशेष के इस अंक में एनएसजी की संरचना, संगठन औऱ इतिहास पर बात।
Anchor – Amrita Chaurasia
Production – Zaigham Murtaza, Atul Pandey, Akash Popli, Leena
Graphics - Nirdesh, Amit
Guest Coordination- Deepti, Manoj, Paras
Editing – Pitambar Joshi, Sanjeev Katoch, Rama