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Jeff Bezos before becoming a multi-billionaire.

Jeff Bezos before becoming a multi-billionaire.

In his vision for the New Millenium, former President APJ Abdul Kalam said "A developed India, by 2020 or even earlier is not a dream. It needn't even be a mere aspiration in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up-and accomplish."

Today is the 100th birth anniversary of one of the greatest and most influential singers from India.

What did Rafi tell Ali here?

2024 Indian of the year has to be Abhijeet Bhattacharya!

1. Trended in Egypt for being Hosni Mubarak's doppelganger

2. Called AR Rahman a copy paste artist

3. Dua Lipa #nuffsaid

2024 Indian of the year has to be Abhijeet Bhattacharya!

1. Trended in Egypt for being Hosni Mubarak's doppelganger

2. Called AR Rahman a copy paste artist

3. Dua Lipa #nuffsaid

Morsing or Jew's Harp is a common accompaniment in Carnatic music & Bengaluru-based Bhagyalakshmi M. Krishna is a legit expert!

Bhagyalakshmi says "It’s an art you get used to. There is a knack in making music by holding this instrument made of mild steel between your tongue & lips.”

Listen to this masterpiece.

The instrument here is the Dilruba, played the legendary artist Dilruba Saroja.

In today's short 🧵 we celebrate the achievements of some lesser known path breaking Indian women musicians.

Coming back to Dilruba Saroja who we met in the first skeet.

She has been playing the Dilruba for almost 40 years and has recorded for the following music directors Ilayaraja, A.R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Harris Jayaraj, Hamsalekha, etc 🤯

We salute you ma'am!

hatam Sukanya Ramgopal is considered as India’s first woman Ghatam player.

She also performs the "Ghata Tarang" where the artist plays seven-eight ghatams!

The "Queen of Sarod" Sharan Rani is considered as the first women Sarod player in India.

Sharan Rani was trained by the great Allauddin Khan.

It is said that Pr. Nehru called her a "Cultural Ambassador of India"!

Dr Varsha Agarwal often considered as the first Indian female classical solo santoor player.

The winner of First Lady of Santoor' award from the President of India & Ministry of Women and Child Development, Dr. Agarwal's PhD was on "Hadoti Ki Lok Gathavo Ki Gayan Parampara’.'

Morsing or Jew's Harp is a common accompaniment in Carnatic music & Bengaluru-based Bhagyalakshmi M. Krishna is a legit expert!

Bhagyalakshmi says "It’s an art you get used to. There is a knack in making music by holding this instrument made of mild steel between your tongue & lips.”

The Rudraveena is world heritage instrument and is dubbed as the King of all instruments. Jyoti Hegde from the small town of Sirsi in Karnataka is India’s only woman rudraveena artist.

Manonmani, daughter of the legendary Dilruba player Saroja is South India’s first female sarangi player.

The sarangi has featured in many hit songs by legends like Ilaiyaraaja and A R Rahman

Here’s Manonmani rendering different songs on the Sarangi
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The percussion instrument of choice in Carnatic classical music is the Mridanga and Sumathi Ramamohana Rao is credited as one of the first women to play the Mridanga professionally. youtube.com/watch?v=a8Rr...

YouTube video by Gurpreet kaur World's first lady tabla player Dr. Jogamaya shukla

Jogamaya Shukla is acknowledged as one of the first women to play the tabla. Trained in Bhatkhande Music University, Shukla was a tabla virtuoso.
(The famous actor Saurabh Shukla is her son, and he credits his parents for his interest in the fine arts)
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A WTF fact before we delve into the thread.

Did you know that a German philologist once wrote an essay telling people which musical instruments were proper for women to play? This person also “issued a strict ban on women playing what he regarded as male instruments”🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦🤦

Listen to this masterpiece.

The instrument here is the Dilruba, played the legendary artist Dilruba Saroja.

In today's short 🧵 we celebrate the achievements of some lesser known path breaking Indian women musicians.

As per Abbas Tyrewala's script - this character was called Khujli.

Arshad Warsi felt that the character was getting angry at every small thing - he was being short circuited easily.

Hence, he changed the name to Circuit!

What has the OJ Simpson case got to do with the American fossil fuel industry?

As per Abbas Tyrewala's script - this character was called Khujli.

Arshad Warsi felt that the character was getting angry at every small thing - he was being short circuited easily.

Hence, he changed the name to Circuit!

Ron Goldman, was a waiter at the restaurant Mezzaluna in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

He had plans of opening a bar & wanted to learn all facets of the restaurant business.

He got himself employed at Mezzaluna, an upmarket restaurant run by Charif Souki.

In June 94, Nicole Brown ate dinner at a restaurant. Nicole's mother left her glasses at the restaurant.

A waiter Ron Goldman, went to Nicole's house to return them. Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were murdered possibly by OJ Simpson.

And this changed the fossil fuel industry. 🧵

How One Restaurateur Transformed America’s Energy Industry (Published 2022)

Sources:
1. nytimes.com/2022/07/06/m...
2. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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One high profile murder - one restaurant - one media circus - one restaurant owner trying to run away from it all...

End result: USA is now a leading fossil fuel exporter.

Natural gas has emerged as a kind of Goldilocks fuel for power generation: less polluting than coal and less disruptive than switching to renewables.

Japan and South Korea have built dozens of regasification terminals over the past decade. China has quintupled its natural-gas imports over the same period.

Souki had an effective monopoly and by 2013 he was the highest paid executive in the world earning a net compensation of $142M.

The United States has flooded the world with supply, helping to double the global volume of L.N.G. exports between 2015 and 2019.

Souki pushed ahead, though, and soon his export facility was ready with hulking steel pipeline arrays and rotund storage tanks looming over the swampy water.

Overseas demand for Natural Gas shot up. Souki's facility was the only one in USA to liquefy natural gas.