September 2018 ~ South Delhi Times

September 2018: It’s year nine of BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender, and with a vision to take the festival experience to more cities than ever before, it’s year 3 of BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender Express. 6 cities will host the Weekender Express experience over the course of 3 months, starting with Kolkata and moving on to Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Mysore and Hyderabad.

Featuring a versatile blend of artists and genres, the Express editions will give fans a taste of the BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender experience offering plenty to look forward to with fantastic acts from India and across the world, including Poets of the Fall, Switchfoot, The Raghu Dixit Project, Indian Ocean and Dualist Inquiry.

The main editions of BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender will be held in Meghalaya on 2-3 November and in its hometown Pune from 7-9 December. Since its inception, BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender has featured over 540 artists from India and around the world, across a variety of genres, to over 500,000 fans. The festival has evolved to become one of the country's most beloved musical weekends as thousands of fans and discerning music lovers converge for an unforgettable experience. The tickets for Express Editions are now on sale on https://insider.in/go/bacardi-weekender-express

Details on the BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender Express editions are here:

KOLKATA		LUCKNOW	CHANDIGARH
Poets of the Fall Tiny Fingers Lakkhichhara Mahesh Raghunandan Date: Saturday, 3 November 2018 Venue: Nicco Park Plaza III	Switchfoot Pentagram aswekeepsearching Ape Echoes Date: Sunday, 4 November 2018 Venue: Nicco Park Plaza III	Parvaz Aswekeepsearching Ankur & The Ghalat Family Mali Samar Mehedi Date: Saturday, 17 November 2018 Venue: The Palms Golf Club & Resort	The Local Train When Chai Met Toast Saby Singh That Boy Roby Shubhank Sharma Date: Saturday, 24 November 2018 Venue: Bhullar Resort

JAIPUR	MYSORE	HYDERABAD
The Local Train Dualist Inquiry Aswekeepsearching Parvaz Dhruv Vishvanath Date: Saturday, 1 December 2018 Venue: Jaipur Exhibition & Convention Centre	Indian Ocean Lagori Ritviz Gurbax Mahesh Raghunandan Date: Saturday, 12 January 2019 Venue: Silent Shores Resort & Spa	The Raghu Dixit Project Anand Bhaskar Collective Dualist Inquiry Aswekeepsearching Cinema of Excess Date: Saturday, 19 January 2019 Venue: GMC Balayogi Stadium

Stay tuned to the BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender website for more information.

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The artist management division of OML manages some of the biggest independent music and comedy acts in the country. OML works closely with brands to create unique properties and events. This includes shows like news comedy show On Air with AIB on Hotstar, YouTube Comedy Hunt and Laughter Games with YouTube, and MTV Sound Trippin', to name a few.

Being a south-Indian, I was always drawn towards Bharatanatyam and nurtured a passion since my childhood. Due to several unforeseen circumstances, I could not pursue it during my years in Mumbai. Post my marriage, I moved to New Delhi around 12 years ago and became a resident of C.R.Park. And it is here that I met Nanditha Mazumdar, a well-known Bharatanatyam dancer and Guru.

Initially, I was not aware that she was a dancer. We became friends through our children who went to the same play school. But when she disclosed about her dance and the fact that she teaches too, I couldn’t resist myself. I jumped at the opportunity and joined her academy on the auspicious occasion of Vijayadashmi Here was a chance for me to fulfill my passion and dream.

I have not regretted my decision even once. My Guru, Nanditha Mazumdar, has been an excellent teacher and a great person to know. She is very good with her disciples, teaching and guiding them beautifully and bringing out the best in each student of the academy. Even though I am the oldest in the academy in terms of age, yet I feel like one of the other younger students. We are like a large family where all the students interact closely with each other and join hands for all celebrations, especially when we have birthdays.

The Academy is 8 years old in this neighbourhood and has a friendly atmosphere. I feel fortunate and blessed to be a student of Guru Nanditha Mazumdar, and so does every student of the academy. My daughter too is now a disciple of this lovely Guru.

With such a good dance academy in the neighbourhood, I feel it is my duty to write and make the residents of C.R.Park and the neighbouring areas aware about it.

Mrs.Usha Devendranath
#88004 43770
ushanat@rediffmail.com