
Indian Navy tableau and brass band at Republic Day Parade on Kartavya Path, in Delhi
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The Indian Navy's ceremonial tableau proceeds along Kartavya Path during India's annual Republic Day Parade in New Delhi.
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Srinivas is an engineer who turned to playback singer for Indian films. He studied in Kerala and was coached in Carnatic music by his aunt. In 1988, Srinivas approached music maestro Ilaiyaraaja, who was at the helm of Tamil film music. It was later in 1992, that the soundtrack of Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Roja reignited his dreams of playback singing. Mani Ratnam had introduced composer A. R. Rahman with this movie, who then went on to change the music scene in the Indian film industry. Encouraged by the use of fresh voices in Roja, Srinivas approached A.R. Rahman. Rahman took a liking to Srinivas's rendition of Mehdi Hassan's ghazals and offered him work at Chennai. In 1994, Srinivas shifted base to Chennai and started lending his voice to advertisement jingles and devotional albums. His
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