DD Bharati is a state owned TV channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Delhi.

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History

DD-Bharati Channel was launched on 26 January 2002. Besides programmes on adventure, quiz contests, fine arts/paintings, crafts and designs, cartoons, talent hunts, etc., it also telecasts ''MERI BAAT'' an hour-long phone-in 'live' show with young people. Programmes emphasising on a healthy life style and focusing on prevention rather than cure, both in our traditional and modern forms of medicine are also being telecast. Classical dance/music performances by top class artists of national and international fame are also featured on this channel are programmes on theatre, literature, music, paintings, sculpture and architecture. The channel also telecast programmes in collaboration with organisations like IGNCA, CEC, IGNOU, PSBT, NCERT and Sahitya Akademi. The channel also provides extensive coverage to the AIR sangeet sammelans. Contributions made by the Regional Doordarshan Kendra's are regularly telecast live/recorded.

DD Bharati is working as a Cultural Heritage of India.

Technology

See also

List of programs broadcast by DD National

All India Radio

DD Direct Plus

List of South Asian television channels by country

Media in Chennai

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

External links

Doordarshan Official Internet site

Doordarshan news site

An article at PFC

Media World Asia

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Name	Raza Ali Khan
Background	solo_singer
Birth date	August 08, 1962
Genre	Hindustani Classical Music
Occupation	Hindustani Classical Vocalist
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Raza Ali Khan (born on 8 August 1962) is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Kasur Patiala Gharana and the current Khalifa of the Gharana. He is also an accomplished music director and composer.

Personal life and education

Raza Ali Khan was born in Mumbai to Hindustani classical vocalist, Munawar Ali Khan and he is the grandson of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. He received his early training from his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and after that, extensively, from his father, Munawar Ali Khan. He accompanied his father on concerts and sung alongside.

He married Sahibzadi Samina Khan of the Paigah of Hyderabad in 1986.He married again,for the second time ,late Saajda Khan(daughter of famous tabla player,Ustad Allahditta Khansahib),for the third time,Seema Khan,Afghani domiciled in Germany and is said to have married a fourth time ,Neelima Azeem,a yesteryear actress and the mother of the famous star,Shahid Kapur.Sahibzadi Sameena Khan gave birth to his only son,Fazle Ali Khan alias Zuhair.

Career

Khan's gayaki contains the magic of both his Ustads. His intricate taankari, hypnotising behlawas and electrifying sargams put his performances a notch above the current generation of Indian Classical Singers and make him the foremost exponent of Kasur Patiala Gharana. Raza is always at home while rendering Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, Ghazal, Geet, Sozkhani, Noha Khani,Manqabat. He gave his first solo performance at the Youth Festival in 1977 at the Eden Garden Stadium at Calcutta. From then onwards there was no looking back for him.

Khan has performed in all major music festivals in India and abroad. He has performed in the national program for Indian music at Doordashan TV and in the prestigious radio Sangeet Samelan, Dover Lane Music Conference, Calcutta, Gwalior Sangeet Samaro, Harballab Music Festival in Jullundar, Shankar Lal Festival, Delhi, Krishna Gana Sabah, Chennai, at the Nehru Center for performing Arts in Bombay, Qilla Mubarak Festival, Patiala, Allaudin Khan Festival, Maihar, Triveni Kala Sangam, Chandigarh to name a few.

He was selected to perform at the 24hour Music Festival of India (the Millennium Show) at the Théâtre de la Cartucherai in Paris, which was co-sponsored by ICCR Delhi. He also performed at the Nehru Centre in London. In June 1999, he also performed at All Pakistan Music Conference, Pakistan 2005. Zurich and Basile Festival, Switzerland, 1987, Sadrang Music Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1999.

Discography

Raza Ali Khan has 6 CDs to his credit:

- Gharana Lineage (NAVRAS Records, London) - 3 Generations (Gathani Records, Calcutta) - A Tribute to Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, (Audio Rec, London) - Homage to Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Raagleela and Shadab released from Venus, Ustad Raza Ali Khan live in Karachi released by APMC.

Raza Ali Khan has widely traveled the USA, Europe, Middle East and Far East for concert tours and represented India as a cultural delegate at Afghanistan in 1986, Pakistan in 1984 and Bangladesh in 1998.

His voice has a 3 and half octave range, a deep and sonorous voice, fast sapat taans, powerful gamak taan and complex sargam pattern and laykri (complex rhythm patterns), which won him a lot of admirers in India as well as abroad.

Ustad Raza Ali Khan is an A-Top musician of the All India Radio.

His capabilities as a singer are complemented by his work as a composer. His ghazals are well written. He has composed Ghazals for Ghulam Ali which was released from Venus, 'Moods and Emotions' and for Penaz Masani which was released by Polydor, 'Dharkan'. He remained the chief music director of Venus for four years. Raza also gave music in a Telefilm named Bindia which was produced by Doordarshan and was directed by Uma Vasudeva. Some of his father's disciples having learned from him have been benefited to a considerable extent, namely Sangeeta Banerjee and Kumar Mukherjee. Raza Ali Khan has trained his son Fazle Ali Khan and Nabhodeep Chakraborty who will represent his gayaki and will keep the Kasur Patiala Gharana alive.

References

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Shishir Parkhie born on 7 November 1967 at Nagpur in the state of Mahashtra, India is a singer, music composer and a live show performer.Shishir has been performing live Ghazal concerts at various places worldwide. Shishir uses various forms of music ranging from Ghazals, Bhajans, Sugam Sangeet, Hindi Film Songs to regional music. Several audio cassettes / ACD's / VCD's in various categories have been released by reputed music companies. He has voiced over and composed music for several jingles as well as for various television serials. He is specialised in total conceptualisation and production of musical theme shows, commercial jingles, audio and video albums.

Ghazal albums

#'Once More' Ghazals - Audio CD by Shishir Parkhie Released by T-Series - SNCD 01/6109 in October 2009 # AHTERAAM - A tribute to the legendary poets - SNCD 5587 released by T- Series in 2009.

Devotional albums

T-Series # Mahima Sadgurunath Ki (SHNC 01/2875) # Bolo Jai Siya Ram (SHNC 01/2898) # Shree Mahalaxmi Jagadamba koradi (Amritvaani) (SHNC 01/3295) # Tere Naam Anek Tu Ek He Hai (SHNC 01/3318) # Avtaar Meher Baba Ki Amar Katha (SHNC 01/3459) # Shree Sai Smaran Stuti Paath (SHNC 01/3673) # Raah Sai Ne Sachchi Dikhayee Hai (SHNC 01/) # Hum Bharat Ki Shaan Hai - With Suresh Wadkar & Sadhana Sargam (SHNC 01/1698) # Buddha Vandana Karu (Marathi) (SMNC 01/830) # Sheel Sugandha (Marathi) With Uttara Kelkar (SMNC 01/891) # Pratibimba Krantisuriyache (Marathi) With Uttara Kelkar (SMNC 01/892)

Audio CDs

# Shree Sai Smaran, Stuti Paath (SNCD 01/4773) # Rah Sai Ne Sachchi, Dikhayee Hai (SNCD 01/5166)

Video CDs

# Mahima Sadgurunath Ki, Sampoorna Gurukunj darshan - Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj, (CDVNF) # Aao Chalein Koradi - With Anuradha Paudwal, Sampoorna Koradi Devi Yatra Darshan, (CDVNF 01/3837) # Tere Naam Anek Tu Eh Hi Hai, Gurukunj Mozari Punyatithi Mohatsav Darshan- Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj (CDVNF 01/3911)

Venus

# Shree Gajanan Maharaj Amritvaani

Times

# The Five Elements (Spititual) # Bhojan Mantras

Others

# Prabhu Ke mangal Gun Gaao VCD R -Series # Ab Meri Awaaz Suno R- Series # Utha Gadya Arunodaya Zala R- Series (Marathi) # Mera Chakradhar- Krishna Music # Dhammakranti (Marathi) D- Series

References

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name	Shiv Nadar
birth date
birth place	Tamil Nadu, India
nationality	Indian
occupation	Chairman of HCL TechnologiesFounder, SSN Trust
alma mater	PSG College of Technology
networth	$5.6 billion (2011)
Parents	Sivasubramaniyan Nadar and Vamasundari Devi
spouse	Kiran Nadar
children	Roshni Nadar
website	Official Biography
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Shiv Nadar (; born 1945) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the chairman and chief strategy officer of HCL Technologies. , his personal wealth is US$5.6 billion. Shiv Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT Enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as ''Magus'' (Old Persian for Wizard), since mid-1990s has focused his efforts in developing the educational system of India through SSN Trust.

Early life

Shiv Nadar hails from Moolaipozhi village in the Thoothukudi district about 10 KM from Tiruchendur town in Tamil Nadu, India and was born in the Nadar community to Sivasubramaniya Nadar and Vamasundari Devi in 1946.

His mother, Vamasundari Devi and S. P. Adithanar, founder of Dina Thanthi were siblings. Shiv Nadar received a pre-University degree in The American College, Madurai and degree in Electrical And Electronics Engineering from PSG College of Technology. He began his career at Walchand Group's Cooper Engineering in Pune in 1967.

HCL - 3 decades of evolution

First decade - Startup to India's No 1 IT company

Along with Ajai Chowdhry (Chairman, HCL Infosystems), Arjun Malhotra (CEO and Chairman, Headstrong), Subhash Arora, Yogesh Vaidya and DS Puri, Shiv Nadar started Microcomp to sell teledigital calculators in the Indian market. under the brand name "Televista''.

HCL was founded later in 1976 with an investment of Rs 187,000 from the 6 founders and added Uttar Pradesh government as a 26% equity partner. While the company focused on building a microcomputer from scratch, it received an unexpected boon when foreign companies like IBM left the country due to the policies adopted by the then Industrial minister George Fernandes in 1977 creating a market space for the microcomputer in India.

In 1980, HCL ventured into the international market with the opening of ''Far East Computers'' in Singapore to sell IT hardware. The venture reported Rs 1 million revenue in the first year and continued to address the Singapore operations. In 1981, Rajendra Pawar, Vijay Thadani, S Rajendran started NIIT with Nadar playing the role of investor to address the then fast growing computer education market. Nadar remained the largest shareholder without retaining any management control. Nadar retained his shareholding in NIIT through 2003 at least.

Through 1984, the company focused on designing microcomputers and writing custom applications for clients on these systems. When the Indian government liberalized regulations for import of technology, the computer market was in effect opened for adopting new global technologies. HCL utilized the opportunity to develop Personal computers solutions (called Busybee) and UNIX platform based solutions. In the IT hardware business, the company opened a subsidiary called HCL office Automation that quickly became India's leader in office solutions. By 1987, HCL recorded revenue of Rs 100 crores and featured as India's number 1 company.

Second decade - Transition to software services business

Shiv Nadar looked at marking a place in the global arena after having captured Indian IT leadership. ''HCL America'' was set up in 1989, to market HCL-made computers in the U.S.A. under the name of an American company with which HCL America had partnered. The deal didn't succeed. As HCL America was also providing software services to various American companies at that time, mainly to finance its U.S. operations, Nadar decided that software services would become HCL America's core competence.

Meanwhile, in India, HCL consolidated its market position in the early part of its second decade reaching an inflexion point in 1991 when the government liberalized the economy to provide a level playing field for foreign players. HCL joined HP and created a JV - HCL HP Limited. The JV built solutions to address the local computing market as well as gave HCL its first experience in outsourced R&D.; In the mid '90s, Shiv Nadar added sale agreement with Ericsson and Nokia to distribute their products in India. In 1995, Nadar set a target of Rs 100 billion as target for the HCL Group, a target his group will fall short.

By 1995, HCL became a complex organization with over 40 subsidiaries and Nadar quickly realized that global IT services was the way forward rather than IT hardware. HCL Consulting was formed to address the IT services and the R&D; division of HCL-HP was merged into HCL Consulting. The company was renamed HCL Technologies in 1996, the same year the JV with HP broke off.

By early 1998, Nadar had consolidated his business into five entities - HCL Technologies (global IT service company), HCL Infosystems (Indian IT hardware leader), HCL comnet (network services company), HCL Perot (IT applications) and NIIT (education services).

Third decade - Global IT service company

Shiv Nadar took HCL Technologies public in 1999, At the time of IPO, HCL was the second largest IT company with revenue of Rs. 7.23 billion behind TCS (Rs 16.52 billion) but ahead of Wipro (Rs 6.32 billion) and Infosys (Rs. 5 billion) and with the Internet boom in full swing, HCL decided to put complete focus in R&D; services to product engineering companies while paying scant attention to the Y2K. When the Internet bubble burst in 2000, HCL was left behind by its competitors because of their headstart in Enterprise application services.

Nadar made an effort to bootstrap HCL with acquisitions in 2001. HCL acquired Apollo Contact center from BT and Deutsche Software Limited (Deutsche Bank's Indian captive software company) to address the BPO and Financial services market. Still HCL continued to underperform competitors through 2005.

By 2004, the number of companies in HCL was consolidated from five to two - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Shiv's shareholding in NIIT was recognized as personal investment and HCL Comnet became a subsidiary of HCL Technologies. HCL Perot was sold back to partner Perot Systems for $105 million in December 2003. S Raman, COO & President, HCL Technologies retired in early 2005 and Nadar promoted Vineet Nayar as President of HCL Technologies and revive HCL's sagging fortunes in the IT services spectrum.

In 2007, Shiv passed the mantle of CEO of HCL Technologies to Vineet Nayar. Shiv remains Chairman of HCL Technologies and its largest shareholder.

Non-IT business ventures

Nadar had less success with his ventures outside the IT and software industry. His partnernship with Singapore Telecom to address the now-booming Indian Telecom market was unsuccessful as well as his attempts in the granite and aquaculture business.

Focus on Education & Healthcare

In 1996, Shiv Nadar founded SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in the name of his father - ''Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar''. Shiv Nadar takes active role in the college activities including gifting of Rs. 1 million worth of HCL shares to the college. In 2006, Nadar announced that the college will promote research apart from ensuring that students benefit from foreign university tie-ups. Nadar joined the Executive Board of Indian School of Business in 2005. In March 2008, Nadar's SSN Trust announced setting up of Seven Vidyagyan schools in UP for rural students where free scholarship will be provided for 100 students from 10 districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Shiv Nadar is a member of the Governing board of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). PHFI was started by Rajat Gupta to "redress the limited institutional capacity in India for strengthening training, research and policy development in the area of Public Health"

In April 2011, he was appointed the chairman of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Awards and accolades

In 2008, Government of India awarded Shiv Nadar with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, for his contribution to IT industry.

In 2007, Madras University awarded him honorary doctorate degree (D Sc) for his contributions in promoting software technology. Nadar was also recognized as E&Y; Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 (Services).

In October 2006, Shiv Nadar received an honorary fellowship from All India Management Association - AIMA

References

External links

Profile at HCL

Profile at Forbes

Shiv Nadar collected news and commentary at ''The Times of India''

K@W Interview with Shiv Nadar

CNN Interview with Shiv Nadar

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