Kala Madhyam Bangalore 2010 (Updated for 2012 at the end)

I had two plans for Saturday. One, wanted to run the midnight marathon which was held at Whitefield Bangalore and second, wanted to attend the Kala Madhyam Folk & Tribal Art & Craft exhibition 2010. After lot of debate, dropped the plan of running the midnight marathon and planned to attend the Kala Madhyam exhibition.

Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath hosts Kala Madhyam Folk & Tribal Art & Craft exhibition every year. Artists from all over India participate in this exhibition to display Indian cultural traditions. Variety of Folk Paintings, Handicrafts, Pottery materials, Antique silver-bronze jewellery, Cotton sarees, Folk performances, etc...

I could watch Sutrada Gombe Aata (String Puppet Show) and Folk Songs from Marga Jyothi Welfare Trust for Blind. I got to shop beautiful silver-bronze jewellery... :-) There was a Painting Exhibition and Photography exhibition too.

Sunday 12th December is the last day of this event. You can bargain well here but keep in mind the artist’s effort when you bargain. :)

Have a look on few of the pictures of the event.

Folk Songs from Marga Jyothi Welfare Trust for Blind...

Art of Ajanta on a clay pot..

This is the necklace I got for myself. :-)

Update:
Kala Madhyam 2012 is going on for three days at Chitra Kala Parishat from May 31st 2012 to June 02nd 2012. I had been there yesterday. They have nice collections, i got few items from the Chettinad antic shop. Also, this year there's a stall from an NGO: Concern India Foundation - Pause for a cause in the gallery area. There's variety of traditional and contemporary sarees and salwars on display. 

Troubleshooting - Volume Control Disabled

It's been long time; I haven't posted anything over here. I guess, my new job is keeping me busy or the distance I travel was eating up all the spare time. Hehe...

Here's something what I faced today. For some reasons, the Volume Control icon was missing from my Task bar. I started troubleshooting and opened the Control Panel > Sounds, Speech, and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio devices. This particular screen was disabled. 

To troubleshoot further, I did the following:

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Volume Control

I received the following message:

"There are no active mixer devices available. To install mixer devices, Go to Control Panel and Other Hardware, and then click ADD HARDWARE."

I tried to Add Hardware, but I didn’t know if I should select existing hardware or add a new hardware. I skipped that process and did the following:

From the Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Double click on Services > Click on Windows Audio > Restart the service.

Once you have restarted the Windows audio service, you must restart the system.

This worked for me. I hope this will be helpful to anyone of you in case, you face this problem.

Happy Independence Day!!!

     Picture courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27654121@N04/2577582073/

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again." - - Jawaharlal Nehru (Speech on Indian Independence Day, 1947)

Happy 64^th Independence Day to all…

Let’s make this Independence day "plastic free". Today, when I was back from Total, I was observing little boys and girls at the traffic signal with plastic flags. Let’s not buy plastic flags and encourage everyone in buying cotton tri-colour flags. Let’s all follow the flag rules with due respect. 

     Picture courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97911870@N00/3783681643/  
 वन्दे मातरम...जय हिंद...

Indian Rupee Symbol in your PC’s and Keyboards

Cabinet have approved the symbol for Indian Rupee recently. Have we started using this symbol or should we wait till Unicode approves the rupee symbol globally. I guess we should start using this symbol. To get into all the PC’s and Keyboards, Fordian Technologies have worked on unique font for Indian Rupee symbol. I just installed this font on my system and it worked. See how it works.

Step 1: Download the Rupee Font Version from: Rupee font

 

Step 2: Copy the downloaded font ‘Rupee_Foradian.ttf’ to Fonts folder in the Control Panel

Step 3: Open Microsoft Word processor.

Step 4: Select the font ‘Rupee Foradian’ from the list of fonts.

 

Step 5: Press the button above the tab button from the keyboard.

 

The Rupee symbol is displayed.

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Now if you want to write Rs. 25,000.00, you can write `25,000.00

Lets all start using the Rupee Symbol  ` from now on. 

Cheers!