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One of the coolest things I like about photography is that it makes me walk with my eyes sharp and head up. Otherwise I find myself pacing to my next destination single-minded and making sure that I don’t trip on anything. With a camera in my hand, I try to keep on top of what’s in front of me as well around me. What if I walk by something and end up missing a good photo-op?

That’s what happened with this photo. Its taken at the base of the CN Tower on Bremner Boulevard, Toronto. Its ‘my backyard’, as it were. I walk through these everyday but never noticed how red they look in the evening with the neon glow from the Rogers Centre and some street signage. Just got my SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 Manual Lens & Maha C-9000 Charger with 4 2700mah batteries. So my Pentax K100D ’starter’ kit is finally complete (dont use the stock 18-55mm lens as much).

Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He
Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maratha
Dravida Utkala Banga
Vindhya Himachal Yamuna Ganga
Ucchala Jaladhi Taranga
Tubh Shubha Name Jage
Tubh Shubha Ashisha Mange
Gahe Tubh Jaya Gata
Jan Gan Mangaldayak Jay He
Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
Jaye He ! Jaye He ! Jaye He !
Jaye, Jaye, Jaye, Jaye He

Its over 6 minutes, but completely worth it. The national anthem of India done right by A. R. Rahman & Bharat Bala Productions and a whole crew of superstars, including:

Vocalists

• D K Pattamal
• Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Pandit Jasraj
• Dr Balamuralikrishna
• Jagjit Singh
• Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty
• Shobha Gurtu
• Begum Parveena Sultana
• Bhupen Hazarika
• Ustad Rashid Khan
• Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Smt. Shruti Sadolikar
• Dr S P Balasubramaniam
• Sudha Raghunathan
• Asha Bhosle
• Hariharan
• Kavita Krishnamurthy
• P Unnikrishnan
• Nityashree
• Saddiq Khan Langa
• Ghulam Murtaza Khan
• Ghulam Qadir Khan
• Kaushiki Chakrabarty

Instrumentalists

• Flute: Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia
• Sarod: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash
• Santoor: Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma
• Ghattam: Vikku Vinayakram, Uma Shankar
• Mohan Veena: Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
• Saxophone: Kadri Gopalnath
• Chitraveena: Ravikiran
• Veena: E Gayathri
• Sarangi: Ustad Sultan Khan
• Sitar: Pandit Kartick Kumar, Niladri Kumar
• Violin: Kumaresh, Ganesh

Orchestra

• Conductor: K. Srinivas Murthy
• Cello: Ramsekar, R K Vijayandran, Bidyur Khayal
• Tympany: Kumar, Karthikeyan
• Violin: M Kalyanasundaram, Jerry Fernandes, Cyril Fernandes, R Joseph, K Murali, B J Chandru, B Balu, Murali, Dinakar, Rex Isaac, Debu Ashish, PJ Sebastian, P S Ramachandran
• Mridangam: D A Srinivas
• Harp: R Visweswaran