Sri M is a spiritual guide, author, a social reformer, and educationist.
Sri Lankan are a really interesting story.
SRI is founded by Stanford.
SRI is in red, receiving bits from UCLA.
SRI was the prime and we worked on CALO, a five-year program, the largest program in the history of the US government
Sri Lanka is a country that was hit by the tsunami.
Srila Prabhupada, my teacher, gave an example.
Srishti, who's here, just joined the team a little while ago.
Sriracha iioli that I made for you guys today. And um Chef Bill has a bunch of other cool stuff that I'll ask him to
Sriracha-- I mean, some hot sauce.
sriracha, if you like spicy.
Sriracha is a province in the southern coast of Thailand that grows chillis.
Sriracha. But we know good sriracha also brings glutamates, which is umami, brings heat, brings a little more acid to that.
Sriracha. I don't have very much in my fridge.
Sriracha's not a brand.
Sriraja Panich is considered by most people to be the originator.
Sridhar Ranganathan: Hello, yeah.
Sridhar Ranganathan: I think you should speak here. Yep.
Sridhar Ranganathan: You want this?
Sridhar Ranganathan: So there's a teacher here and she's gonna conduct a class with you guys.
Sridhar Ranganathan: Are you ready?
Sridhar Ranganathan: And is example of Shankar teaching one of his songs -- Shankar Mahadevan: I'm not using all the songs, this song I'm teaching --
Sridhar Ranganathan: we're launching this song on May 8th which happens to be the Mother's Day and the song was aptly named Maa.
Sridhar Ranganathan: So I'll show you a small?
Sridhar Ranganathan: Now when you arrive at the bridge as we can call it for this song that is when your singing has to be very--
Sridar Ranganathan: That's a sample of this.
Sridhar Ranganathan: Okay, so we can tell .
Sridar Ranganathan: So let me answer that wonderful questions in there.
Sridar Ranganathan: Also the language part so at three and four and five they actually pick up the language through the music much faster
Sridar Ranganathan: Three. Shankar Madadevan: 73 year old also so that is the range, bandwidth.
Sridar Ranganathan: Yeah, so we started we actually started our pre-pilot with the violin and then we, so the only music book part is easy right
Sridar Ranganathan: Yeah it's like that Carnatic music and then the popular .
Sridar Ranganathan: So we try to make the best fit.
Sridhar Ranganathan: And the teachers have to go through a teacher's certification program.
Sridhar Ranganathan: Okay. Shankar Mahadevan: You are the boss.
Sridhar Ranganthan: It's an Academy we'll have annual programs, contests, competitions.
Sridhar Ranganathan: Two more questions.
Sridar Ranganathan: Or technology.
Sridar Ranganthan: Yeah, so in the two-pronged plans: one is how do we work with corporations and schools in getting offline Shankar Mahadevan Academy centers with probably our own centers.
Sridar Ranganathan: There is a acoustic part where you don't hear dogs barking or crows -- Shankar Mahadevan: Traffic in Bombay's is great now so.
Sridar Ranganathan: We get one more question. Last question.
Sridar Ranganathan: Actually that is an important point that you bring up.
In Sri Lanka, Facebook was using similar techniques, I suppose, to privilege more hysterical content.
But SRI has a long history, and not just an old history, of succeeding in commercialization.
in Sri Lanka.
So Srinath was very good with the junior players.
And Srila Prabhupada explained, when we have disagreements, if we have a higher purpose that we're recognizing of why we're
And Srila Prabhupada, our guru, told him, you're a musician, you have fame, you have wealth, you're a Beatle.
So sriracha is the harissa of yesterday.
Thai sriracha is more garlic-y and Umami.