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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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Queing up for UGADI day lunch at TIVIDALE BALAJI TEMPLE,UK


The Tividale  Balaji Temple in the UK is in fact much more than a seat of God it was intented to be. It has become a place to visit for thousands of asians living in the United Kingdom and the part of their itinerary for those visiting as tourists.

The temple and its serene and vast surroundings covered by lawn adds to its attraction as a place to spend some time with family and children. On important Hindu festival days the place come alive with thousands of people, all leaving their day to day working western garb for wonderful coloured and embroidered sarees and all kinds of Indian dress, adding a lot of colour and variety to the scenery.

The temple though based on south Indian system of worship is rather generous in celebrations, missing almost none irrespective of the region of India. Consequently there are plenty of occasions and very frequently. On a nice sunny day, the celebration tend to be more colourful and prolonged like the UGADI day. All celebrations and weekends are especially looked forward to for the simple but very Indian meal as 'Prasadam'  to the worshippers. On UGADI celebration, the meal take a special Telugu flavour , with a few more Telugu preparations added to the usual meal.


UGADI DAY 2011



UGADI DAY 2012





Listen in to the magical GRAMOPHONE of SHALU FAISAL






Hello Shalu,

I have a surprise for you today!
I heard you say that we can never listen to the same GRAMOPHONE show again! I wanted to prove you wrong. You can do that here.

I keep listening to the messages of your passionate listeners around the world, which you read out even more passionately, adoring your GRAMOPHONE as if it is something they love more than anything else in their life.

To many of your listeners, the two hours magic spell they fall in to with GRAMOPHONE, through your sweet voice and soothing words and endearing songs of yore you play on their requests, taking them through memory lanes, is like the precious moments they get to spend with their sweet heart, on secret rendezvous!

For each of them, the first encounter with GRAMOPHONE brings nearly the same sweet surprise when one gets that first glance, quite unexpectedly and unwittingly, when something tells you that you are made for each other, that this is where your heart will rest in passion, peace and joy!

Then there is the frantic search to find each other again, eagerly and anxiously searching all over the place to find that lovely radio station, hiding that sweet heart who has got in under your skin. At last you feel lucky you found a lost love and heave a big sigh of relief when you hear that sweet strains of GRAMAPHONE.s music agin on the air!  After a couple of listening sessions, the desire to meet and be with each other again like two people in love grows in to an obsession. Days and weekends are spent restlessly and impatiently just for the brief two hour rendezvous, where you blissfully forget the rest of the world.

Day after day, you wait in sweet anticipation for GRAMOPHONE to arrive, wondering what will be the colour of the dress, the hair style and the mood. At last you behold the arrival with immense joy and relief that it is here and real, eagerly devouring each beating of the eye lashes, movements and expressions on the face and the occasional Jingle of the bangles with the gentle movements of hands.

As you settle down, you wonder who you are going to talk about, what sorrows and joys will be shared, which corner of the world your mind will be taken to wander about, what music your ears will be feasted up on.

Then slowly but surely, as the dusk slips in to a silent nightfall, you are taken in to a most wonderful and romantic experience, gently fondling hitherto untouched corners of your heart and psyche, like an unwritten classic you never read, like the colours splashed and pasted on a canvass by a master before your eyes.

Beats of a guitar and notes of a piano come in from somewhere a like a passing breeze, gently moving the silk and spreading the sweet smell of perfume, reminding the presence of someone by your side. Even the jingles and pronouncements pass through the ears, without offending, like little intrusions of a woman selling jasmine flowers or like the little boy pedalling warm peanuts on a beach. You even welcome the breather, to wonder what little piece of joy or sorrow will be shared with you next.

You forget everything, you don’t even dare to get up or move lest you miss a word, a note or melody, like a child looking out of the window of a train moving through a wonderful landscape.  Slowly, you start to feel the elation, the fulfilment with joy of a lazy wanderer who has no desire to stop but must rest somewhere!

Then, sadly but surely, you are reminded  that it is time to part, however much you  wish it didn’t end, only to be consoled by an assurance to meet again soon.

Thomas Edison wouldn’t have in the wildest of his dreams, imagined that the wonderful GRAMOPHONE he invented will one day come to represent tender feelings of love and romance of the entire world in this way!

You can listen to GRAMOPHONE at http://goo.gl/zkl9 between 10 and 12 PM Dubai time, in which SHALU FAISAL magically gets in to the deepest corners of human minds with her soothing words and elicit the most secretly guarded talents from her listeners, to open up and bloom in expressions of pain, love, affection, pangs of separation and loneliness, in most wonderful snippets of poetry and words!


Thursday, April 21, 2011
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GRAMOPHONE - A magical Radio Show by Shalu Faisal on HitFM Dubai.




GRAMOPHONE is a wonderful and UNIQUE radio program everyone must listen at least once in their life!

You can listen to GRAMOPHONE at http://goo.gl/zkl9 between 10 and 12 PM Dubai time, in which SHALU FAISAL magicallly gets in to deepest corners of minds of her listeners with her soothing words and elicit the most secretly guarded talents to open up and bloom in wonderful snippets of poetry and words of expressions of pain, love, affection, and pangs of separation and loneliness.


I think (I am sure a lot of people must have told this before) GRAMOPHONE is a UNIQUE programme as far as I know in any language anywhere in the world, (please correct me if I am wrong) because what is broad cast is actually a collection of wonderful feelings, thoughts and expression of emotions of human beings revealed to a very trusting friend.

As far as I know there is no other show which do that so touchingly and beautifully.

GRAMOPHONE episodes must be saved for the posterity to listen so that, in a very very far future, if the humanity for some reason will be dehumanized and lose tender emotions, GRAMOPHONE will remain to remind what humans could really be like.

In fact you don't have to look in the future, the world we live in is already in need of the soft touch of GRAMOPHONE to soothe the horrendous wounds it inflicts on itself.

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Not at Harvard nor at Ahamadabad

No, they don't teach you this at Harvard or Ahamadabad!

All that you need, to be a good sales person, is a good measure of knowledge of the product you are selling! The more you have it the better you will be as a sales guy. The deeper the Guru delves in to the matter, the bigger is the following. Whether it is the woman who sells fish in the market or the suave connoisseur you deal with in the diamonds section of a big name jewellery, it is the same knowledge of the product that will impress you.

I had no time though to  remind me of  fundamentals of marketing and sales and brush up on my product knowledge.  I had to say something to the devotee who had stopped in front of me before  he lost his patience and moved on. I had to somehow grab his attention before he lost his curiosity.

If I simply said  Here is a leaflet which tells you everything, that would have suited us both. I can have the satisfaction of having achieved something great and the stranger in front of me a feeling of having escaped a Spanish inquisition! But that is not service to God!

I had to ask a question! My customer has to come out of the shock of being way laid and start using his brain. start thinking, start pondering for an answer.  So I started asking something, in fact anything to get him to talk. Like where he is coming from, is it the first time he is visiting the temple. how log before  did he arrive from India, is he married yet, any thing to strike a conversation.

I hate intruding in people's privacy but I had to get them to open their ears and eyes before they opened their hearts a bit.

Surprisingly it all seems to be working like in a trance! Suddenly everone seemed interested in what I had to say, except of course some hard core visitors who had gone through it all before with someone else!

(continued on next post.....)                                    
(Curious what this is about ? See previous post)


What did I say to the devotees ?

Though I had been involved with this great temple (The new Balaji Temple at Tividale in the west Midlands, UK http://www.venkateswara.org.uk/) for eighteen years only as a devotee, I had some idea about how the trustees have gone about raising funds to build the temple. But this didn't help when I was standing there facing a lot of people, coming out of darshan.

Naturally, for most of them the darshan must have been a very touching and special event in their life! They must waited a long time and taken a lot of trouble by travelling long distances with families and children. The reward was evident from their faces, the peace and tranquillity they must have felt and the feeling of a divine touch they carried. Mundane things like funds or fund raising must be the last things in their minds.What can you say to these people? I didn't know.

Then what I was there for was God's own business! Soon I had to find a way to carry on with my duty before the devotees dispersed and went their way. So I plucked up some enthusiasm from the din and dizil of the ambiance and the chanting of the Vishnu sahasranama over the temple audio system and ventured to stop people coming towards to me.

I said hello, vanakkam, namaste, hello sir, excuse me madam, anything which came to my tongue just to get their attention. I suppose there was an element of natural selection in my salutation based on the perception of age and the attire of the individual and the gender of the devotee.


It seemed to be working! Though I could read the reticence and annoyance at being way laid most unexpectedly, some sense of the God's business I had to present must have somehow transpired.

I wonder if it might have been the beautiful Kathakali padam praising lord Siva (a stotram) which was going in my mind which brought the change in their minds! Just listen and see for yourself!


Monday, July 05, 2010
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