Enlightening Silk Expo Experience at Valluvar Kottam

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Silk Expo held at Valluvar Kottam, Chennai.
Just thought of sharing the experience here.

Apart from the silk related stalls put up there, there were people from silk mark india.
One of the person explained to me the various stages involved in obtaining silk from silkworm.
Here is his photo.

To start with he had shown me the egg of one of the type of silkworm. (photo here)

First few days of development of the silkworm from the egg. Here is a picture.

After about 4 to 6 days.

After about 10 to 12 days, the silkworm becomes bigger by eating the leaves.

And then it develops a nest around its body. This nest is what becomes silk later.

Here are some some pictures which shows how the silk thread is made.

Apart from this there is also a display of hand loom machine which makes silk sari.

And the person who weaves the saree (time consuming task requires lot of patience)

In a nutshell various stages of silk making from silkworm

Awesome Kutcheri with T N Seshagopalan, Vittal Ramamurthi, Thanjavur Murugaboopathi, Shree Sundar Kumar

Recently I attended a kutcheri by T.N.Seshagopalan. Just thought of sharing
the experience here.

While boarding the bus at Amman koil, I saw a ad saying there are music concerts
happening in Meenakshi College of Engineering conducted by Sri Rama Bhaktha Jana Samaj.

After couple of days, one evening I thought of attending the kutcheri.

Tried google and landed in http://kutcheris.com/home.php. Able to find Meenakshi College
of Engineering. Came to know there is a kutcheri happening that day with T.N.Seshagopalan.

Went to the college campus around 6.30. Got the ticket and seated myself.

Slowly the accompanying musicians Vittal Ramamurthi (Violin),  Thanjavur Murugaboopathi
(Mridangam), Shree Sundar Kumar (Kanjira) came.

Finally T.N.Seshagopalan came and distributed prizes for the kids music competition.

The kutcheri started around 7pm and it went on till 10pm. Even though I was feeling
hungry, somehow I couldn't get out of the seat and go. All of them are simply awesome.
They just glued me to the chair.

T.N.Seshagopalan gave space for all the musicians, infact he just challenged the
accompanying musicians to give their best.

They performed as a team, as well as individual talents also came up very well.

There was a girl sitting behind TN, at times she was also singing.
Able to match up to the speed.

One thing I noticed is, during these 3 hrs, there were many people coming in and
going out. It really didn't bother TN or his associates. They were simple engrossed
in their divine music. This is a take home lesson for me.

I couldn't take a photo, since I didn't have a camera that day. Here are some
pictures captured from google images.