Archive for 'Bangalore'

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team I cannot think of a better way a Bangalorean could have spent the eve of Independence Day. For all those who attended the Rang De Freedom Concert on 14th August in Bangalore, it was a musical treat with a social twist. Presented by the Rang De Bangalore Chapter, the Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team This is what NABARD says and we cannot agree more. Ask someone who has no access to finance to understand the significance of this slogan and they will tell us how left out they are. Having a bank account and getting access to finance is as crucial as any Read more …

By Pranay Prateek, Rang De Bangalore Chapter Member “Hey Machaa! Come da, we have a talk in the TT room.” “Saale Chal! Aaj hi saara kaam karega kya.” Thus, we coerced people to come to listen to the talk on Rang De which was about to happen in our TT (table tennis) room. Although we Read more …

By Raghav Parthasarathy, Rang De Bangalore Chapter Member I was running in the Sunfeast Bangalore Marathon Open 10K, when all of a sudden a person running alongside me asked me “Are you a part of Rang De? Has Smita come? I was her classmate” and the next thing he said was “You guys are doing Read more …

After a Knock-Out Marathon at Bangalore in 2009 (which was attended by the Rang De team and a few volunteers from Bangalore), some of the Rang De Bangalore Chapter Members have gotten together to run at the Sunfeast Marathon 2010 on Sunday May 23. The chapter members who have registered to run are: Raghav Parthasarathy Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Members of the Swarathma band take a bow after their fabulous performance. Swarathma is a Bangalore based band that performs Hindi music. If last time it was the arrival of the VIPs that caused a scare at the Rang De concert (Read Rang De Oxygen Concert), this time it Read more …

By Sri Ranganathan, Rang De Bangalore Chapter Member A display of the bookmarks and posters at the exhibition. Sri Ranganathan single-handedly coordinated this effort. Rang De was invited by Namaste India!: the organizers of one the most happening exhibitions at International Tech Park, Whitefield, Bangalore. Resident to some of the most prominent companies in the Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Rang De not doing anything for Holi is unacceptable right? We kept the Holi campaign under wraps until now and were patiently waiting for its completion. The Holi campaign was initiated by the Rang De Bangalore Chapter with an intent to do something that would involve school children. Something Read more …

By Raghav Parthasarasthy, Sri Ranganathan and Sreekanth Ragunath, Members of the Rang De Bangalore Chapter The need for a place for the Rang De Bangalore Chapter to have its regular meetings, where volunteers and new initiates would get to interact, come up with campaign ideas, decide to lead or be part of teams carrying out Read more …