SWARAS

Sound Waves Allow Relaxation & Alleviate Stress

For all employees in Supervisory cadre and above

28th February, 2014
Conducted in association with

Shankar Mahadevan Academy

 Program Overview
This is a lifestyle program by Corporate HR, Learning &
Development. The program empowers participants with
techniques to reduce stress at work and reinstate work life
balance with the help of Music.

The program would delve into various domains of music

and help you control daily stress levels and help you to
rejuvenate and revitalize.
 Program objectives
To sensitize and tune the professionals to have a
striking steadiness in personal & professional life
with the aid of Music by:

 Recognizing the difference between the noise and

the music and its implications

 Learning basic of Music and its magic to influence

our life

 Developing Music as a medium to regulate

emotions, thinking, self expression, creativity ,
communication etc.

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into

words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
 Program Content

• Module 1: Introduction to Music

• Module 2: Music Therapy

• Module 3: Creativity and Team Building with

Music
 Program Faculty
 An accomplished Carnatic music singer, violinist,
performer, and teacher. She applies her unique
ability to make learning of Carnatic music fun and
accessible to students of any age, from young
children to adults.

 Padma has released numerous albums as a solo

artist and an accompanying violinist, and during
her illustrious career has accompanied musical
legends that include Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Padma Shankar
Thanjavur Sankara Iyer, Smt. R. Vedavalli, Kalpagam
Swaminathan, N. Ramani Suguna Varadachari,
Suguna Purushothaman, and Aruna Sairam.

 Padma has had the good fortune to study music under the tutelage of
some of the greatest musicians in her field - including Dr. M.
Balamuralikrishna as well as violinist Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, whom she
accompanied in concerts and lectures. She started taking lessons at a
young age from her mother, and was first introduced to violin by
Ramakrishna Sarma.

 Padma has received numerous prestigious awards, and has performed

across India and around the world in countries that include the United
States, Canada, France, Singapore , Malaysia, Israel and the Middle East.
She is also a regular performer in Doordarshan Television (Indian
National TV) and All India Radio. She is a postgraduate in music from the
University of Madras.
 Program Faculty
 Sridhar Ranganathan is the Founder and CEO of
Clood On Inc and the Shankar
MahadevanAcademy. He started this venture in
July 2009 and the Shankar Mahadevan
Academy was started in November 2010.

 Prior to this new start up company, he was the

Founder and Managing Director of Blue Vector
Inc. where he led the company’s software
Sridhar Ranganathan development center in Bangalore and as the
Worldwide Sr. Vice President for Client Services.

 An entrepreneur who thrives on using cutting edge technologies to

create immense value for the benefit of the masses, he was recognized
by his Alma Mater with “One among the Best Alumni” award in 2008 by
Dr. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India during a ceremony
celebrating the 75th anniversary of the prestigious South Indian
Education Society (SIES) in Mumbai.

 With over 21 years of experience in the wireless and software industry,

he started his career at Xerox Corporation as a software engineer in the
Silicon Valley, California. He left Xerox to join Pure Software that
eventually merged with Rational Software and later with IBM. Sridhar
left Pure to co-found Online Anywhere in 1997 and wore many hats to
get it off the ground, including business strategy, day to day operations
and engineering. Online Anywhere was awarded 7 patents in the Mobile
Data and Applications space and were the pioneers in mobile based
applications.
 Program Schedule

• Venue : Learning & Development Centre (LDC) – Sharjah

• Date : 28th February, 2014

• Day : Friday

• Eligibility- S&E & above

• Duration : 1 day

• Time : 8:45am to 5:00pm

There's music in the sighing of a reed;

There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron
To book yourself for the program

• If interested, please send your nomination through

your HR Dept latest before 7th February 2014

• Confirmation of seats for the program would be

accepted on first come first serve basis.

• For any other queries please feel free to contact the

undersigned from the Corporate HR, Learning &
Development Team

• Ms. Janette Lobo Mukherjee

 Tel No: (+971) 065515165
 (email id: janette.lobo@larsentoubro.com)

We look forward to your response…