Team



Co-founders & Tech Team

Cyber

cyber

Born & brought up in a town in North Karnataka, now pursuing M.S in computer science.He loves music to the core, one of his most fav is Scorpions Wind Of Change. Starting with Mungaru Male, he has developed love for kannada music-obviously because of great music by music blue-ribbons ( Manomurthy, Jayant Kaikini ) . He loves eating so much that evreyone feels he lives to eat!!! and claims that he is Chicken Genius!!! His love for music made him start this radio, apart from eating and sleeping, he loves blogging, photography, trying to learn guitar and nowadays started hiking!!!(surprisingly)

Madhu

cyber

Madhu works for a california based software company,apart from his love for music(esp kannada),he loves hiking,trekking,bikes (he is soon gonna buy a R6) and a total gym/fitness freak.

RJs

RJ Chitra

chitra

Chitra is someone who lives up to her name in being picturesque in whatever she does. She defies the traditionalism and beats the clichés of people. An eclectic singer who sings without any inhibition. She also adds colours to a different segment of music ? bhavageethe on the lines of famous bhavageethe singers.
Bhavageethe Bhavane + Geethe, singing with emotions and feelings, Chitra is apt for it. An engineer by profession with focus on quality and six sigma, she adds value to everything she does. Chitra, paints, sings, debates and has been a key pro Kannada since her college days. She makes use of her talent and her sweet voice and takes you to a different world. Friendly is just a small word to define her friendliness. A level headed, beautiful girl who can be relied upon at all times.

RJ Poornima

poornima

Poornima is very friendly girl with warm smile. She can converse very easily and put her thoughts forward confidently. Being cheerful and enthusiastic as a person, friends are made very easily & she is always around for them..With the funny bone in her system, its never possible for her friends to not be laughing heartily. She is absolute fun;She is based out of Long Island and loves music from childhood and never misses any chance to croon to them & at home
She is also budding cook making considerable progress without putting anything or anybody at risk. She is very artistic and does small projects at home to continue with her hobbies. She also loves to travel and visit new places.

RJ Rashmi

RJ Rashmi

As evident from her name, is a girl with a glowing Smile on her Face( always!!) who hails from Chikmagalore. She has a blessed voice, is really caring, extremely talented n dedicated to wat she is committed. A very expressive girl who can put to words about wat she is thinking..
A die hard fan of Sonu Nigam since her teenage, she always wanted to sing a duet with him atleast once in her lifetime. She currently resides in Salt Lake city , Utah happily married and keeping herself busy wit her interests in reading books, Calligraphy, Graphology and Numerology etc etc., She is the one who can score centum in wat she does. She’s popular for her charming smile, the food she cooks and her sweet voice..
To sum up with she is an appata malnad Hudugi ..Nam Rashmi, Chikkamagaloora Chikka Mallige

RJ Shalini

Sakkat Shalini

Shalini, is a modest girl like her name, a complete mysuru hudugi. She is always cheerful and optimistic.
Her attitude is childlike, she loves to explore new recipes, and loves to visit places. She is happily married
and lives with her husband. Her likes in music include, instrumental jugalbandhi, both old and new kannada
film songs. She keeps herself busy by reading and learning new things. She is a dreamer, though may not
always know how to execute her dreams :) . She tries to leave a place better than she finds it. Indeed a smart, sweet girl.

RJ Kanchan

RJ Kanchan

Creative at heart, expressive in actions with inherent love for kannada language, Kanchan had ample opportunities to hone her art during her school and college days, be it makkala kavi sammelana, Kalaaranga, creative competitions, MC-compere, poetry, speeches, singing, essays…. This girl with her passion and unique voice and style had a stint at Bengalooru All India Radio, a fortuitous encounter which was a turning point in her creative career. Influenced by her older brother, she believed in being the best of her and excelled in her academics holding her gold medal from Bangalore University as a sweet memory and flew across the seas to continue higher studies in the big land of USA. Pursuing studies, graduation, job….all rolled on in the blink of an eye……Today Kanchan Suresh lives in New Jersey, happily married, working and trying her best to keep her creativity nourished while experiencing the joys of being Amma.

Music Reviewer

Webvani

Webvani

The girl who started swaying to music as a baby, who wrote her first poem at the age of 5,whose literary talent attracted a publisher who made her release her 1st book of poems called Reflections at the age of 15 and who went on to win n become a recipient of the coveted National Balshree Honour (given by the then Prez,Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan; the highest civilian honour for Indian kids) for excellence in originality n creative writing.Having been interviewed by several newspapers n tv channels n labelled as versatile diva,’precocious teen and a bundle of talent, Webvani is into literary activites like crazy. From debates,poetry,essays to extempore,presentations and being the editor of the college magazine in her final year,this gal has done it all.Passionate about music,she was the lead singer of choice on almost every college occasion.Vani idolises Shreya and Sonu and has a discerning ear for the melody,sounds n beats that complement musical journeys so eclectically churned out by the film industry.Essentially the hyperactive intellect kind of person;she?s got a love for new ideas,a workaholism in her areas of interest, a terribly moody temperament and either talks too much or doesnt talk at all !!!

Marketing Team

Guru (Marketing Head)

guru

Guru – preeti-inda naavu ivanna “dumma” mattu “koppla” antha karitevi. He describes himself as “Kesarinalli Aralida Kamala”. Born comedian, engineer by profession, Maatina Malla, Jagadddodharaka.. He takes care of all the marketing activities of RG – talking to people, spreading RG etc..

Pavvi (Writer)

pavvi

Pavvi, a fusion of traditional cultural values with dynamic modern style, a die hard fan of music and movies, classical dancer(12 years BharatnaTyam, Kathak) by interest and management professional by choice pursuing MBA at Syracuse University. Its hard to find a person with varied liking for both Hindi and English music. A typical DharwaD HuDgi is now upgrading her Kannada music database by contributing to our videos section. This fun loving girl loves traveling, reading, singing and is an active social worker.

Creative Team

Naveen Ullikashi (Designer)

naveen A passionate & workaholic, he likes to make sure he exceeds the expectations set. A software engineer by profession, (he renders services to BMC Software), has keen interest in creative forms such as designing for web, print media and also into photography.

Manoj (Logo Design)

manoj Manoj a.k.a ammaNNipaapu, creativity is in his blood;born and brought up in Jamboti, a small village in Belgaum district is currently working for CTS. Now in California at client?s location. A born artist, with a lot of hidden talents such as singing, and instruments-guitar & mouth-organ etc. Though his mother tongue is Marathi, he has learnt kannada with dedication and sings few kannada songs very well. SHAAN is his all time favourite singer, the logo was made in paint (just imagine) and then photoshoped).

Others

Shaanya (Advisor & Language Expert – Kannada)

shaanya

Man with a million dollar smile. A perfect cartoon character who loves DSP to the core and cooking, a proclaimed king of PJ?s; in all a walking bheja fry. In his free time he cooks delicious items for us and now turning into a pro-blogger. You can define him like this ? Whatz a PJ ? Obviously ?a poor joke?
Whatz a (P + i J)?? if you have no idea,you should not be talking to this person !

Narayan a.k.a Koraka (Language Expert -English)

narayan

Girls call him ?cutie?. Koraka graduated from NCSU in Computer Engineering. He is a writer in the making( but hasn?t taken it seriously yet).Apart from his love for ASIC,Koraka is famous for his unique ?english? writing and in his free time he generates captions,disclaimers and names for friends like us.

Vishu (Critic)

Niranjan (Critic)

Ravi Karagudari (Contributor Whats Girmit)

Past Members

RJ Divya

divya

An enchanting passionate engineer with a unique touch of creativity. Multi talented person who does almost everything under the sun. Now doing her M.S at RIT in Packaging Science. Her characteristic kannada beliefs and respect for the language is what makes her unique. She is known for having an eternal list of jokes, which could kill either through the humor or the lack of it. A strange penchant for Rahul Dravid and for the Moon. Gifted with a very sweet voice which she loves to flaunt, besides she sings everything from classical to stothras to new age.Highly approachable ever-smiling with an infectious cheer, wonderful by heart and a true BMS Engineer.

RJ Vinay

vinay

Vinay is a karnatic (cos he is from karnataka), lunatic (this is state of mind..not that he is from moon) technocratic a(that makes up his bit/blood stream) fanatic (that is how he approaches anythin’ he does)…This guy knows a *bit* about *bytes*. But surely does not “bite”.Sleeps like 3 hours a day, can eat any thing (vegetarian by “principles”).His interests are, but not limited to, gardening, cooking, knitting and of-course space walking (Now who does not do that!!).One of his famous quotes, “Assumptions Can not Be Helped.” (ACBH), He charges 10$ / usage.
Pre-requisite to listeners or any one talking to him: Learn Differential Calculus. He thinks he is funny, For heaven sakes, NO!! He is FREAKIN’ COMPLEX !!!
After reading/listening to these six lines your brain feels messed up right? That is exactly the feeling you get when you met/talk with him. So you kinda already know him

RJ Lakshmi

lakshmi

Lakshmi is unimaginable with that trademark smile of hers. A very caring person, she senses your senses almost instantly and is ready to offer help.
An expert cook, she is famous for her delicious “Masala Dosas”. A bunch of talent, Lakshmi is an expert dancer, her gracious movements leaves one spell bound. She is professionally trained in Kathak and has won accolades for her expert choreography. All in all, a perfect combination of talent and humanity


 

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