More than the dance prize, a bigger achievement is the words you use ... Uppity ?? Ok, I could guess what that meant ... Elim ?? What does that one mean ?
________________________________ > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:01:19 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Blowing my own trumpet > > Arre Kiran, yeh bahut badhi dhamki hai. Don't ever be khamosh. Ok now..I will > blow my trumpet (it doesn't mean that Sameer ever did, OK?). > I dunno if you all know i have learnt Bharat Natyam for six years...so i > never miss an opportunity to participate in a dance programme. This happened > four years ago when I was working with TOI. There was a talent contest in the > entire TOI and decided to do a dance number. I wanted a partner but my fellow > male journos were all boring people. Luckily there was a trainee who was very > enthu. I decided to team up with him and guess which song we decided to dance > on? .... Nikamma kiya is dil ne...my journo colleagues were shocked. It was > too much of a jhatka number for them. They are more classical oriented...they > go to listen to Bhimsen Joshi! One senior woman was going to sing in French. > But i have made no bones about my background and in fact I am proud of that. > We took a friend who is an assistant of choereographer Ganesh Acharya. And he > came up with such a lovely routine...we were telling a story through the song > and it was hilarious. > > My very uppity parsee (Bombay edition) editor (Columbia graduate, Malabar > Hill bungalow resident) was also shocked. But one of the elim round judges > was Economic Times Editor. He was blown away and came to us to congratulate > us for our energy... it was a strong routine. > > On the day of the finals...most department heads came to cheer their > staff...In our case, only my friends came...the editor or seniors were not > planning to come. But the ET editor was chatting with TOI editor and he said > how much he enjoyed our dance. Madam then decided to come to the event (in > the same building!) and many others followed. The dance was a hit...for the > finals Govinda, Rajshree and Sushma Reddy were the judges. We got first prize > and our photos were published in Bombay Times. My editor who never spoke to > me from her ivory tower chatted with me and was curious to know if the > trainee and I were seeing each other!!! For the record, the answer was No. He > was dating an intern. > > And guess what...a year later the ET editor became our (all India) TOI editor > and by default, I was one of his favourites. In every meeting he brought the > dance up. Cool na? > Very long mail. But I had to give the sequence. Sorry if you were bored. Now > everyone come up with their past time activities as Sameer suggested. > Arch > > > _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_102008 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VaniV88-89" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/VaniV88-89?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
