A.R.Rahman Bags 2 Grammy

"This is insane, God is great again"

This is what A.R.Rahman said after getting his second grammy award at Los Angeles.

"Slumdog Millionaire" composer A.R. Rahman struck gold twice at the 52th Grammy Awards.

Rahman won the first Grammy in the best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture category and second for his chartbuster 'Jai Ho' from 'Slumdog Millionaire' in the best Motion Picture song category.


Rahman's rivals in the soundtrack category included Steve Jordan for 'Cadillac Records', Quentin Tarantino for 'Inglourious Basterds', and the producers of 'Twilight' and 'True Blood'.

Before Rahman only three Indians, Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Tabla wizard Zakir Hussain, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt who has the distinction of creating the Mohan Veena, were able win Grammy awards and that too only when they collaborated with other western musicians.

Altough Rehman is the first one to get a grammy in India for individual performance for the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' but I think we have seen his much better work in movies like Dil Se, Roza, Rang de Basanti etc, but these movies were not even nominated.

Apple Tablet iPad

Finally Apple unveiled its tablet computer, the iPad.

“This is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.”
That was how Steve Jobs described the iPad when he unveiled it on 27th Jan, Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.

So what is the iPad?

iPad is a device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. So at one go its a larger iPod touch with ereader like capabilities as well. So it pretty much takes Amazon’s Kindle head on as well.

The size and layout of IPad,

Weight: 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;

1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model

iPad Pricing Details:

iPad 16 GB with WiFi: $499, with 3G: $629
iPad 32 GB with WiFi: $599, with 3G: $729
iPad 64 GB with WiFi: $699, with 3G: $829

The specifications of the device are -

• 9.7″ LED multi-touch display
• 1024 x 768 resolution
• 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB memory options
• 1GHz Apple A4 processor
• Accelerometer sensor
• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology
• UMTS/HSDPA (for the 3G model)
• Up to 10 hours battery backup and a month of standby
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack

iPad will be available in late March 2010 in US. But there is not word on International launch. So folks here in India will have to wait.

Dont forget to checkout the Video of Apple iPad Hands on:

Backstreet Boys in DELHI, ROCK 'N INDIA 2010

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Famous Pop Rock band Backstreet Boys are going to perform live in DELHI on 20th Feb & in BANGALORE on 22nd Feb.


The American band will participate in ROCK 'N INDIA concert along with Richard Marx who has consistently and powerfully made his mark on the music industry for 20 years.

Festival Line up for Delhi

• Backstreet Boys
  

• Richard Marx

• Prime Circle

• Jayce Lewis

• Swarathma

• Indigo Children

Festival Line up for Bangalore

• Backstreet Boys
  

• Richard Marx

• Prime Circle

• Jayce Lewis

• Swarathma

Rock ‘N India is India’s only international music festival, renowned for bringing in international iconic rock bands like Megadeth and Machine Head to Bangalore last year in 2009.

On March 14 2008 ventured the first ever Music festival in India and this time I think it's going to be big really big !!!!!

Me, Myself and I

Hola Gente,

For those of you who are wondering what that is, it's 'Hello People' in spanish. And for those of you who now think I know spanish, sorry. My spanish is limited to Hola Gente!!!

Well...I sit here right now...kind of confused, kind of intrigued by this whole blogging technology!Lots of things are going through my head...others are going to be reading my life, how might they react, what kind of judgements might they make......and then i wonder what a blog is all about.

After spending far too long considering blogging and agonizing about the optimal approach, I’ve decided to just jump into it.
As such, I’m not sure how this blog will evolve over time.

I'll continue to write about stuff I enjoy, such as movies, music, tv, technology and and anything that I find interesting.That's it for now, come back soon for some new posts.

Note: My future blog posts will be more interesting than this one.