Tag: 44th Chess Olympiad

  • Arivu claims he composed, wrote and carried out ‘Experience Enjaami’, Santhosh Narayanan says me too

    A confrontation has damaged out between the composers and singers of ‘Experience Enjaami’. All of it started when rapper Arivu used to be now not correctly credited after the music used to be carried out through singers Dhee and Kidakuzhi Mariyammal on the opening rite of the forty fourth Chess Olympiad. Track director Santosh Narayanan used to be credited because the composer of the music, as a substitute.

    The exclusion of Arivu’s identify from the credit used to be identified through many of us on social media, inflicting Arivu to react to the entire controversy. On Sunday, he took to his Instagram web page and wrote, “Composed, Written, sung & Carried out Experience Enjaami. No person gave me a Song, Melody or a Unmarried phrase to jot down this one. Spent nearly 6 months of sleepless and aggravating nights and days for the whole thing it’s at this time. Definitely it’s a really perfect workforce paintings. Definitely it calls everybody in combination . Nevertheless it doesn’t imply that’s now not the historical past of Valliammal or the landless Tea plantation slave ancestors of mine . Each and every music of mine shall be having the scarmark of this generational oppression. Like this Simply One..(sic).”

    Within the gentle of Arivu’s remark, Santosh additionally launched a letter explaining the entire inventive procedure of the way ‘Experience Enjaami’ got here into being. Whilst Arivu claimed that it took nearly six months for him to jot down the music, Santosh has stated that “All of the technique of the ideation, composition, association and recording the shoot model with the entire lyrics of ‘Experience Enjaami’ used to be accomplished in below 30 hours. As we had just a few hours to report ‘Experience Enjaami’ ahead of the shoot, our procedure used to be swift, amusing and spontaneous.”

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    — Santhosh Narayanan (@Music_Santhosh) August 1, 2022

    Santhosh steered that he used to be the one that got here up with the word ‘Experience Enjaami’, round which Arivu constructed a story. He stated that as consistent with the norm within the international impartial scene, he’s credited because the “manufacturer” of the music. The time period in India generally refers to those that make investments cash in inventive paintings however don’t seem to be a part of the inventive procedure.

    “In December 2020, Dhee got here up with the theory of making a Tamil music which glorified our roots and celebrated nature. I then composed, organized, programmed, recorded and co-sang ‘Experience Enjaami’,” he stated.

    Santhosh, in the meantime, distanced himself from the Chess Olympiad controversy, noting that he has all the time “created Arivu and Dhee with out prejudice in all platforms below my regulate.” He additionally added that the revenues generated from the music have been similarly shared a few of the 3 of them.

    This isn’t the primary time, Arivu has discovered himself in the course of such controversy. Previous, an argument broke out when Rolling Stone, within the gentle of the worldwide luck of ‘Experience Enjaami’ and ‘Neeye Oli’, honoured Dhee and Shan Vincent through hanging them on its quilt however now not him.

  • forty fourth Chess Olympiad inaugurated, PM Modi calls TN ‘chess powerhouse of India’ 

    High Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the forty fourth Chess Olympiad in Chennai on Thursday, adopted through an impressive cultural show highlighting Tamil tradition throughout the ages. The arena’s greatest workforce chess festival, with gamers from 187 international locations, starts on Friday at a resort in Mamallapuram, south of Chennai.

    In his inaugural speech, Modi stated preparations for the mega match have been made in a little while and promised that those that reached Chennai to participate within the event can be handled as esteemed visitors. “We can assist you to carry your easiest sport to the board,” he stated.

    “That is the primary time the Chess Olympiad is being held in India, and is coming to Asia for the primary time in 3 many years. And this time, it has the absolute best selection of international locations, selection of groups, and selection of feminine chess gamers taking part,” Modi stated, including that it’ll be a memorable match.

    The host of the forty fourth Chess Olympiad, India, is represented through 3 groups in each and every segment (Open and Girls). That’s 30 gamers altogether, and lots of the younger stars are the way forward for chess.

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    — Global Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) July 27, 2022

    In step with Modi, the importance of the Olympiad additionally stems from the truth that it’s being held all through the seventy fifth anniversary of India’s independence. He additionally recalled the importance of chess in Tamil historical past.

    “In Tamil Nadu, there are lots of temples with sculptures portraying other sports activities… You’ll even discover a temple – Chathuranga Vallabhanathar temple in Tiruvarur – the place it’s believed that even God has performed chess with the princess. So, it’s herbal that Tamil Nadu has a powerful historic reference to chess. Because of this Tamil Nadu is named because the chess powerhouse of India. It has produced many Grandmasters,” Modi stated.

    Modi additionally invoked the importance of a wholesome way of life. He stated the post-pandemic time has made folks conscious about the significance of health and wellness, “each bodily and psychological,” he stated.

    Additionally saying the significance of making an investment in sports activities infrastructure, the High Minister stated “there hasn’t ever been a greater time for sports activities in India than the prevailing time.”

    Relating to the spectacular performances of Indian athletes on the Olympics in addition to different sports activities occasions, he stated “our proficient children from small cities and villages are bringing glory. It’s heartening to peer girls are main India’s sports activities revolution.”

    Tamil Nadu Leader Minister M Ok Stalin stated he had a distinct hobby in website hosting the development within the state. “After the scheduled match was once moved from Russia, I directed my officials to clutch the chance if that involves India. In March, I made the primary announcement on this regard… Normally, no less than 18 months are required to arrange for such a global event. However we shaped about 18 committees and controlled to organise it in simply 4 months,” he stated.

    Mentioning that chess is the trendy model of the standard board sport, Saturanga Vilayattu, Stalin stated the Olympiad is being held close to the coastal the city of Sadurangapattinam, the house of the sport. He additionally recalled the contributions of Manuel Aaron, the primary Indian chess grasp, and Viswanathan Anand, a five-time global chess champion, from Chennai.

    Stalin stated of the 73 Indian Grandmasters, 26 have been from Tamil Nadu. “That implies 36 % of Indian Grandmasters are from Tamil Nadu. This can be a sport of intelligence and arithmetic. And Chennai can also be rightly known as because the chess capital of India,” he stated. Stalin added that the state’s archaeological excavation website online, Keeladi, additionally had proof of Chaturanga video games, very similar to chess, akin to elephants and horses, and all the ones crucial chess items made from terracotta.

    He stated the Olympiad’s veshti-adorning mascot Thambi is the logo of brotherhood. “It’s to suggest that we’re all one fraternity. Former leader minister C N Annadurai used to name everybody Thambi. The mascot was once named after the ones reminiscences,” he stated. Modi and Stalin have been each noticed dressed in shirts and Veshti.

    The inauguration rite additionally featured artwork and cultural performances, akin to a distinct dance-song “Vanakkam Chennai, Vanakkam Chess”. Gamers from other international locations gained a musical welcome once they arrived on the venue. Sooner than the inauguration, a musical programme showcased historic Tamil historical past in a nutshell. It was once directed through Vignesh Sivan and narrated through veteran actor Kamal Haasan. The venue and dais have been decked out in quite a lot of chess items.

    Tamil Nadu governor R N Ravi, Minister of State for Data and Broadcasting L Murugan, Union Minister of Early life Affairs and Sports activities Anurag Thakur and Tamil Nadu Minister for Early life Welfare and Recreation Construction S V Meyyanathan have been a few of the visitors who attended the inaugural match.

  • India slams Pakistan for ‘politicising’ Chess Olympiad 

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI:  India on Thursday criticised Pakistan for pulling out of the forty fourth Chess Olympiad in Tamil Nadu and stated it’s “extremely unlucky” that Islamabad has “politicised” the celebrated world match.

    Reacting to Pakistan’s resolution, Spokesperson within the Ministry of Exterior Affairs Arindam Bagchi stated it used to be unexpected that Pakistan has abruptly taken the verdict no longer to take part within the match.

    It’s extremely unlucky that Pakistan has politicised the celebrated world match through making such statements and taking flight its participation after its group has already reached India, he stated.

    Bagchi used to be responding to questions about Pakistan’s resolution to tug out from the Olympiad, bringing up the torch relay of the development passing thru Jammu and Kashmir.

    In this, Bagchi asserted that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh “were, are and can stay an integral a part of India.

    NEW DELHI:  India on Thursday criticised Pakistan for pulling out of the forty fourth Chess Olympiad in Tamil Nadu and stated it’s “extremely unlucky” that Islamabad has “politicised” the celebrated world match.

    Reacting to Pakistan’s resolution, Spokesperson within the Ministry of Exterior Affairs Arindam Bagchi stated it used to be unexpected that Pakistan has abruptly taken the verdict no longer to take part within the match.

    It’s extremely unlucky that Pakistan has politicised the celebrated world match through making such statements and taking flight its participation after its group has already reached India, he stated.

    Bagchi used to be responding to questions about Pakistan’s resolution to tug out from the Olympiad, bringing up the torch relay of the development passing thru Jammu and Kashmir.

    In this, Bagchi asserted that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh “were, are and can stay an integral a part of India.