Posting drying machine Suppliers a huge operating loss of 3,100 million Norwegian Krone (around Rs 2,530 crore) for its Indian telecom business, Telenor on Wednesday hinted at exiting India if it fails to procure spectrum at reasonable rates. If we don’t see returns, then we need to look at other alternatives," Telenor CFO Morten Karlsen Sorby said. We need to be pragmatic to consider other alternatives to find value focused solutions.."Telenor India is a mass market operator. Trai has recommended Rs 11,485 crore base price for auction of spectrum in 700 Mhz band, the highest ever for any radiowave. "It is exciting to see folk music and fusion music go places," he says signing off. "Working with Rahman sir is like having a memorable moment each time. "I owe all my musical inclination to my father. I have a qualification in harmonium, have studied Gujarati folk music, have done my Trinity grade 8 before moving to AR Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory.When the conversation is about music, one often wonders of what inspires it.

So it was as she fronted a band consisting of two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer as she tore into tracks such as riff-driven The Battle Is Over (But The War Goes On) from her last album, 2015’s Outskirts Of Love, the blues ‘n’ soul of Somebody Else’s Jesus, the very Creedence Clearwater Revival sounding Dirty Water, the slow blues of Married To The Blues which stretched Copeland’s expressive voice, the percussion-heavy Never Going Back To Memphis, and the rocking Pie In The Sky with featured some amazing slide, and fabulous interplay between the guitarists, including a call-and-response interaction with the audience.I am – and will always be – a blues buff, but so too is the promoter behind Mahindra Blues Festival, who has undertaken a commendable job bringing international talent into the country through the years.

In all this, let us not forget the legend of Billy Gibbons, the guitarist of ZZ Top, who salvaged – and energised - the dull, heavy rock performance from Supersonic Blues Machine on three songs on which he gusted, including Sharped Dressed Man, and reiterated that Gibbons is unquestionably one of the finest blues-rock guitarists to ever emerge from Texas.Having had the advantage of wearing appropriate genes as the daughter of blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, she showed once again why she is one of the strongest and most capable vocalists in contemporary blues. Yes, Brian Tellis is passionate about his music too as I recall, since 1985 at least, when I saw him perform harmonies in a band called Voices at the Aid Bhopal Concert held in Mumbai. Through the years, there has been every reason to meet him (mostly at concerts, though), including at his very own One Tree Music Festival during the 2000s that I frequented regularly at Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex, which has since expanded into this festival.