There are four yogas as per Hindu mythology. Of this the current yuga is called as Kaliyuga. In this yuga it is not possible for ordinary human beings to keep fasting or do meditation or go to hills or forests for deep Tapas!

Hence to save all the human beings it is the Grace of Mighty Sri Lakshmi narasimha swamy alone can help timely. As you all know when Demon King Hiranya asked his son Bakta Prahlad where is Sri hari immediately within a fraction of second came out of pillar. Hence we all should worship him to get immediate solution to the burning problems in this fast world!!! The mantra for worship is as follows:

Yasya Bavath Bagtha janarthi hanthugu

pithurthva manyeshva vichrya dhoornam

sthambhevathara sthamananya labyam

lakshmi narasimham saranam prabhathye.

ukram veeram mahavishnum jwalantham sarvathomukam

nirusimham bheeshanam badhram mrithyum mrithyum namamyaham.

srimathe lakshmi narasimha parabrahmane namah.

Of all the temples I find Namakkal Temple a very rare and immediate boon to worshippers. The temple was made out of rock by Pallava kings.

In this temple Sri mahalakshmi temple is there and she is very famous and helped great mathemetician Ramanujam to solve difficult theorms by answering his queries in his dreams.

In the same temple complex we can find Sri Hanuman standing tall without any roof. It is said that Sri Hanuman eyes are in same line with the swamy foot.

The following slokas are worth for reciting.

1. Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Karavalambam

2. Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Runa Vimochana Stotaram

3. Sri Mantrarajapatha Stotaram

After just being released to the general public last week, Hotel City seems to be descent 2D simulators made by Playfish, the same developers that brought you the famous Restaurant City and Pet Society.

From first glance, Hotel City is a simulator similar that of the old Sim Tower with a little twist of Restaurant City in a mix. For days I was looking at the advertisement while playing with Restaurant City and wonder what Hotel City really is? What sort of new entertainment it can provide me? So without thinking any further I decided to give it a try and click on the advertisement to find out myself.

Game Play

When I first launched the application in my Facebook account, the game loads rather smoothly with no hiccups or long loading time (Thank goodness that Playfish corrected the load time in their games). Once the loading was completed, I started naming my Hotel (Mabel High) and straight after that, the in game tutorial kicked in. The game tutorial is very straight forward and easy to be pick up by any age group. Instructing new players what to do and how the game interface works.

Hotel City works in 2D side scroll-er environment which allows you to move freely around the screen to get a better view of your hotel with interface carefully placed around the screen. Game settings, building menus and status bars are all placed around the edge of the screen to allow easy access and without blocking the hotel environment. However, what impressed me the most was for a beta version, Playfish has already added various types of furniture and rooms available to be used in the game.

After getting familiar with my new surrounding, I took the next step in creating my new hotel. As a newly established hotel, the game placed you with 3 temporary staff, a lobby area and enough gold to build a cozy hotel with 3 small rooms, a Cleaning Closet and a few extra decorations. Nothing grand when you just start a new establishment really, but good enough to draw a small crowd nevertheless.

Of course a good hotel would not be complete without workers running around entertaining and serving the guest. New staff during the beginning of the game is nameless avatar with red tags calling themselves “Temp Staff”. Unlike the previous Playfish simulator, you cannot just hire any of your friends in your list to replace them, disappointing. One must actually sent out advertisement to recruit your friends as permanent staff to the new hotel. This can be rather troublesome at first since there are not many people playing the game yet and most will ignore your call for help. However, if you do manage to get your friends to work in your new hotel, the reward will be worth your wild as the cost per-shift will be reduced greatly.

Some element of the game play does not seem to change much as my staffs still need to ‘rest’ after a long day at work. Although you do not have to constantly monitor the progress of your workers, you still need to login a day or two to start the next shift. Work shift is presented in 4 different settings for now. The shortest shift will be 2 hours and the longest provided now is around 48 hours, depending on your budget.

Certain improvement from previous Playfish game is the friend list. At the bottom panel you will see the list of your friends will now have a gold indicator, indicating that there is reward to be claim if you visit them. Gone with the days of just wondering who you have not visited for the day and the loot you have missed out.

Finally the only thing that I cannot really do in the game at the moment is to sell all my old furniture or send it to my needy friends as the function is still not available at this stage of development. So, nothing I can do right now but to dump all those old junks inside my garage while waiting for Playfish to enable that feature.

Graphics

There is little to say about the game graphic really as it looks rather plain and leave a lot of room for improvement. There is a small element of 3D in the game, but it is very hard to notice unless you look very, very careful at the little avatars head. Yes, those little hard working avatar head is actually 3D, but nothing that makes me wow out of my seat really. Seriously, I was actually expected more than just a 3D bobble head.

Sound

The music and the sound can do a bit of work. Although it started out nicely, the music can get rather annoying after listening it straight for 10 minutes. The same goes for the sound as people will make various sleeping and yawning noise which is rather irritating. As per-usual, switching off the sound is advisable unless you enjoy listening to the same old thing over and over again.

Conclusion

For now the game looks rather promising for a BETA version. However there are a lot of areas of improvement. Although it is nothing other developers have never done over the years, but for killing time in the office or at school, this game may just keep you occupy for a few minutes of your time. As for me, I will keep my eye on this game from time to time, let us just hope that there will be more contents added by the time the game goes gold.

“I AM Archangel Reyiel. I AM of the Dominions.”

This was the statement that came through my wife:- spiritual medium and Avatara. An Avatara (female of Avatar) is a prophet; a person chosen by the Godhead, to receive and deliver messages for the betterment of mankind.

This was the first time from hundreds of connections with over 60 different Archangels, Ascended Masters, Angels and Light-Beings, that we have had contact with an Angel from The Dominions; a part of the structure of the Angelic Realm.

Archangel Reyiel explained that she comes upon the rays of the blue, purple and gold vibration to guide us at this time.

She governs the energies of mystic wisdom, and helps people to understand and identify that natural order of life which reminds all souls of their responsibility to God, light, the one conscious energy.

It is her responsibility to help human souls to radiate their light, thereby showing the eloquence of the Divine Plan.

Reyiel went on to explain that all light has the ability to touch the many spiritual planes of the Divine.

All souls are born with a purpose in life, and within that purpose there is a need to know, understand and work with the guidelines and principles which are the cornerstones of life.

Each soul is given qualities at birth, which if accepted, will help the soul recognise its true capacities.

Archangel Reyiel often works with those who wish to communicate spiritual plans to others. She works with mystics, those who seek to educate and teach the truth of God.

Reyiel teaches that there is no discrimination, all souls are given justice, love and held in the light of God’s truth. She seeks to help those in her care transmit knowledge and joy, by bestowing upon others the right words, the right energies to create opportunities for growth.

There are many souls who have no structure, many who hold no keys of spiritual energy within their being. Therefore those who work upon her ray of light must adopt a sense of true moderation, understanding that, previous seemingly chaotic states of being, can be restored to an acceptable order.

Courage and a readiness to take on responsibility, is a requirement if success is desired. It is in creating new foundations and being decisive that longed-for dreams will be achieved.

Psychology, and the understanding thereof, are greatly needed. There is little encouragement and influence on the young to build their character and their ability to express themselves as individuals.

Reyiel explained that creativity and individuality is being stifled, because a lack of communication skills is being encouraged. The children of the world need help in discovering, developing and perfecting their qualities so they can find their true self.

Archangel Reyiel conclude by saying, “Blessings, live your truth, live and feel life to all its glory. Share your light and your love at all times. I AM Reyiel.”

You will notice that I referred to Archangel Reyiel as ‘she’. Angels are neither male nor female. They are not even androgynous; both male and female.

It has been explained to us, that as a humans, we have difficulty comprehending something that is not labelled; in this case, male or female, so our mind creates the gender we feel most in alignment with.

Normally, when Jill trance-channels or connects with the Angelic Realm, the vast majority of angels that connect with her, feel masculine to her. You will notice that many people profess that Archangel Gabriel is masculine, yet to Jill, he is a man.

In this case, Jill sensed female energies, which is why we have referred to Reyiel as ‘she’.

You will notice that almost all Archangels have names which end in ‘el’. We are told these letters, pronounced ‘ell’, mean ‘of God’.

So that raises a question. We do we pronounce Archangel Michael’s name in English as Mykul? In the Angelic Realm, it is pronounced ‘Mikayell’.

The one outstanding difference is Archangel Metatron, who is the overseer of all Archangels. He has told us his name means ‘after God’, as he is the one true connection to God, light, the one conscious energy.

You might have noticed two unlinked things here in the title of the article. First, EVATAR. You must be thinking if it’s the sequel of AVATAR. But wait. It’s not. Now coming to the second on: A mini female reproductive system on a 3D chip. If you are assuming that it’s a plot of a science fiction, you would be wrong again.

It’s all about a new age technology that can generate artificial organs on 3D chips. EVATAR is a functioning mini female reproductive system on a 3D microfluidic chip. The model has all the essential elements of a female reproductive system including menstrual cycle. Yes, you read it right. The 3D chip is made of small boxes. And each box performs an equal important role in recreating a female reproductive system effectively. These boxes form fallopian tubes, ovaries, cervix, vagina, and uterus, just like an adult woman’s reproductive system.

Scientists have used human stem cells to create the tissues of EVATAR, except for the ovaries, where stem cells from mouse were used. All the mini organs are linked with each other by mini tubes and pumps. Pumps play a significant role in stimulating blood flow and eventually making the reproductive system complete. The scientists have also added certain hormones in the model in order to stimulate the ovaries to create the estrogen and progesterone hormones. The idea is to release an egg.

Now you must be thinking what these scientists were thinking when they ideated such a tool! Actually, they planned to use this model as a personalized device to understand critical feminine diseases, associated with the reproductive system. They also wanted to determine the effectiveness of clinically available drugs to treat these diseases. Apart from that, with EVATAR they would also be able to find out why a certain drug acts differently on different people.

Many scientists have previously pointed out that lesser accessibility to human organs is one of the main reasons that we have limited scope to treat a critical disease. And this is true for many diseases and disorders. Teresa Woodruff, the lead author on the study at Northwestern University explained, “If I had your stem cells and created a heart, liver, lung and an ovary, I could test 10 different drugs at 10 different doses on you and say, ‘Here’s the drug that will help your Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or diabetes. It’s the ultimate personalized medicine, a model of your body for testing drugs.”

EVATAR is a part of a larger project conducted by the National Institutes of Health. The aim is to develop a “body-on-a-chip” model. The objective behind creating EVATAR is to build personalized models of female reproductive system that will help researchers understand conditions like infertility, ovarian cancer, fibroids, endometriosis etc. The team is now working on recreating a male reproductive system on a 3D chip. And they would call it ADATAR, which is also a part of the National Institutes of Health project. The idea is to study both these models and figure out differences in drug metabolism between women and men.

Here we find ourselves in the 21st century and cars are driving by themselves, refrigerators are ordering food automatically on the interweb, and most shocking of all, Millennials have become the largest buyers of new homes! You could have fooled me. (See the Millennial Song link below).

And, as we move inexorably into the future, technology is progressing faster than ever before in the history of mankind. A perfect example of this is Virtual Reality. It has made tremendous advances in just how real the virtual word that is created tricks us into thinking it is the actual world. (Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, written all the way back in 1992, for a glimpse of the future). My nephew works for Microsoft in the virtual reality department and he let me try out the latest hardware/software. In one program I felt I was at the top of Mount Everest and another at the bottom of the ocean, picking up clams. I really thought I was there!

So how does this directly impact our future, or more specifically, mine? The days of the modern kitchen are drawing to a close. Ever since Eve, with Adams help, messed up in the garden, they had to start preparing food for their family by themselves. Hence the need for a functioning kitchen. But picture Adam or Eve putting on their VR (Virtual Reality) headsets and dialing into any restaurant they had a yearning for. Open the virtual menu, tell the avatar (fake [virtual] person) waiter what they would like, and pay with a Bitcoin!

A few minutes later a driverless car would pull up to their home with their virtual dinner (probably just some mush) and a robot would ring the doorbell. They would certainly think it was by far the best meal they ever had. Virtual Reality 1; Kitchen 0.

Fortunately, it’s not as bleak as it sounds. Although we’re all aging in place as you read this, we’re not quite there yet (even though I am using Word 2003 on a Virtual Windows XP program, residing somewhere inside my Windows 10 computer). Fortunately we still need kitchens and we’ll always need bathrooms (I think). Our best bet is to try to slowly adapt to the new technology. Talk to Siri and Alexa which are good ways to begin and you’ll still be able to sit in your kitchen to eat, do homework, have coffee and read the newspaper (while they still exist).

I figure kitchens as we know them will be around for at least another twenty or thirty years, so if you are thinking about remodeling don’t wait until they are obsolete. Remodel now so you can enjoy it for many years to come. And, if you want to get a jump on things, fall is the best time to start planing and getting projects moving.

Hurricanes, nuclear threats and global warming may come and go, but for now nothing makes you feel better than a new or remodeled kitchen or bathroom. Even if you have to pay the deposit in Bitcoins!

(Millennial Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZthGh758pYY )

Giveaways are something of value given in exchange for personal information from the visitors to your website or sales page. Internet marketers give out free videos or e-books to those that visit their website in return for the email address of the visitor. The purpose is to increase the sales provided by the marketer’s website. In other words, increasing the Return on Investment (ROI) of the marketer’s efforts.

Giveaways have always been an effective marketing strategy. But beginning about 2-3 years ago, most visitors value their privacy over the value of the free e-book or video. The visitors would rather open up another tab in their browser and search for the same information presented in the Giveaway instead of giving out their contact information to someone they do not know. They do not do this out of spite, but to avoid giving out their email to an unknown Internet Marketer.

One way to counter that tendency is by using your creativity to leverage the self-interest of the visitor. The reason behind most giveaway failures is because the Internet Marketer asks the visitor to do something the visitor is not comfortable doing – giving away personal information. Asking for an email address from your visitor is like asking for the phone number of a woman whom you just met in the local coffee shop. She does not know you, so why would you expect her to give you her personal contact information? First you need to establish her trust in you. For marketing purposes, you can accomplish this when the visitor first visits your website. You website should be professional. It must set a good image. It should not be overly emphasizing “selling products” but rather “giving information that fixes a problem” that the visitor has.

There are other ways to obtain the contact details of the visitor. You can ask him/her to like your article on Facebook or to place a tweet on Twitter in order to access premium content. Ask your customer, with a pop up window, to show that he/she can follow you on Twitter to receive great articles whenever they are posted, informing them they would never miss one this way. Always assure your visitors that you will guard their information and that you will never share their information with others.

There are plugins that make this process easy for you to do. Websites can now use push alerts to send text messages or emails to your customers through their browsers or cell phone (of course, with the permission of the user).

Create Social Media Giveaway Contests

Create a simple contest, which is easy for the visitor to do and to enter. For example, you can ask for the visitor to take a photo of their pet with a “theme” (i.e. Christmas if it is December) and to post this on your FB page, Twitter or blog using a certain hash tag (#) and to share it with their circle of friends with a request to do the same again. The person with the most shares by a certain date wins the contest and the prize! Make the steps to the contest simple but as specific as you can. Leave no doubt about what is required to enter and win the contest. Be sure to follow all the rules which the Social media site has regarding contests!

Now to get the traffic you are looking for, you will need to advertise your contest. Advertising attracts quality subscribers who will help your business grow. If you can make viral contests that are targeted to your specific niche, you will see an increase in your list size (which will increase traffic to your website – which will result in increased sales).

Your contests should be geared around increasing social engagement. You need to have well-defined goals and targets. If you want to grow your email list using the contest method, you should focus on that one method. If you want to get more shares to your posts, concentrate on that one method. Do not get distracted by trying to do too much. Be single-minded… be FOCUSED!

You need to use your creative inspiration to come up with an exciting prize that is that expensive to you – but yet is valuable in the eyes of the visitor. Remember, the visitor has a problem or they would not be searching for a solution! A person who is a millionaire several times over is not going to be enticed by a free e-book dealing with “How to Make Money Online.”

Find your target audience. Gear your Giveaway towards that target. Be specific. Create an Avatar of the ideal person you are trying to help! Focus all of your marketing efforts on that Avatar! Do not try to be “all things to all people” thinking that is a better marketing plan. If you “give your all to all you give then you have nothing left to give.”

I love Giveaways! I especially love the Giveaway in contest form! You will receive more traffic, which translates into more sales, if you know who your target market and Avatar is!

The challenge of having visitors to your website give you their email address is not overwhelming if you are FOCUSED on providing value to your Avatar. In today’s marketing climate, you must GIVE VALUE while providing an answer to the visitor’s problem. Otherwise, they will probably just skip over your Giveaway gift and move on to another marketer who is giving away something the visitor deems as having more value.

Giving away value > Results in increased list size > Results in increased traffic > Increased ROI for your business.

I am blessed with being able to have conversations with Archangels and Ascended Masters, courtesy of my wife, Jill, who is an Avatara (Male is Avatar); a person chosen by the Godhead, to receive and deliver messages for the benefit of mankind. The Angelic Realm use telepathy to contact and communicate with people, and if the medium is powerful enough, they can speak through them.

On this occasion, we were talking to Archangel Chamuel and this is what I penned:-

Archangel Chamuel: Greetings! Those who read of our teachings, we would ask if they truly grasp the meanings of our teachings? It is so hard for you all to understand and accept that, unless you know yourself, no amount of practicing religious rites, prayers, or acts will connect you with God; light; the one conscious energy.

You will never find God in churches, temples, mosques. For you must remember, God is formless. When you discover and accept the truth for yourselves, you will see that all forms of worship, rituals and religions, should be abandoned; for the only thing you should worship is yourselves.

Jill: Why worship yourself?

Chamuel: God exists in every part of you. God is not an external thing. When you understand this and it resonates within you as truth, enlightenment is yours. Presently millions of people pray, fast, and live their lives under the delusion that God is elsewhere. If that is so, does this mean you’ve been abandoned? In reality, God has never left you. For God; light; the one conscious energy is you.

There are no special methods to contacting God. It is the awareness of God residing in you, that you have to become aware of. Many of you are trying to find God. You’re looking and yet you’re not seeing or feeling God. Look in the mirror. Look into your eyes. It is difficult to see God, when you don’t really see yourself.

Jill: Why don’t we truly see ourselves?

Chamuel: It is your mind that blocks you from finding God. Through years of programming from other humans you have learnt to block and hide your inner self. This is why your mind can be your worst nightmare and your happiest experience. Because of this, yoga and meditation were brought to mankind.

Jill: Why meditation and yoga?

Chamuel: For when you truly experience stillness, and you free yourself from the thoughts that hound you, you connect with your inner soul. There you find true liberation, knowledge and light. It is the way you can connect with the one conscious energy; light, which you call God. To meditate, it is important that you understand the mind, its worth to you and the vast ability it possesses to manufacture, devise, ponder and bring forth knowledge. The mind cannot be forced into meditation, you have to understand your mind and slowly learn the art of letting go of thoughts.

Jill: How do you do this?

Chamuel: By realising the mind is nothing more than pure energy of consciousness. All the time, your thoughts come and go, even whilst asleep you dream, consciousness is constantly creating. When a thought is created in your mind, you create words, pictures; and then together you give the words, pictures meaning by adding emotions.

It is when words, pictures and emotions combine that your inner energy; God; light; the one conscious energy, affects your human body. Hence; once consciousness has created a thought, it is your choice whether it becomes pain or joy, love or jealousy. It is this same awareness that can help you to attain inner peace and connectedness. Just for now, breathe deeply, think calm, warm, content. Do you see how easy it is to liberate your agitated mind?

Jill: Yes, yet I still don’t quite see how this connects us with God.

Chamuel: You will. We have to get you to first start seeing yourself as already complete and at one with God. To do this, requires you to retrain your mind. Start to be aware of yourself. Think of your choices, before saying something or answering someone’s question. Try to practice quiet contemplation for the rest of the day. Practicing letting thoughts come and go. Do not dwell on them. Everyone can meditate and let their mind free. Anyone who watches the T.V., experiences this, so it is not hard to learn how to connect with God; light; the one conscious energy.

Blessed be and remember that God already resides in thee.

Chamuel.

Throughout history different devices had been in use to create the illusion of motion or animation. Zoetrope a wheel like device with picture on it was invented in China in 180 A.D. Phenakistoscope, Flip books and then cameras began to show moving pictures. With invention of computer, computers begin to be used for animation.

Hummingbird (1967) a ten minute film was considered as the first computer generated animation film. From then on computers begin to be used for creating 2d and 3d animation. Toy Story (1995) was first feature length 3d animation movie. Then rest is the history with block buster movies such as Avatar, Shrek, Up etc grossing heavily at box offices. 3d Computer Generated Imagery or CGI is now being heavily used in not only Hollywood but throughout the world.

I began my journey of learning animation and modeling. For your convenience I have enumerated my journey.

1. I got a trial version of the 3d animation software and began tinkering. In the beginning I did not know even a bit about this software. I and my brother keep fiddling with buttons in the interface. Through this trial and error we would discover new things each day.

2. Then when we got some basic knowledge of the software and we began making things given in the help menu. Slowly and gradually our skills were getting polished.

3. Almost 1 to 2 years passed in this tinkering. My brother realized he could not go further so he gave up but I kept trying, learning one thing after another. I downloaded learning material and tutorials from the internet.

4. After when I got enough experience I begin to spread the word about animation (at that time no one knew about 3d animation). I showed them my work and they were impressed.

5. People begin to contact me for making modeling and animation. At the same time I began teaching animation. This journey took me almost 9 years.

The journey had not been easy. I face several problems. When my siblings and friends enjoyed watching TV, movies and hanging out, I would sit next to the computer watching video tutorials. Art and all its form require passion and dedication. Without passion you can learn to draw lines and circles but you cannot breathe life into your artwork. Creativity cannot be achieved pain. This journey has been a labor of love for me.

Developed by the Roblox Corporation, and compatible with Microsoft Windows, Roblox is a downloadable game that requires 1.8 Ghz processor and 512 MB of RAM. It is an online game that requires Internet connection and is a multiplayer game, too, so your child will be able to communicate and interact with other players. When your child downloads the game he or she will be able to customize the character that they want to play as by selecting a variety of things from the catalog. In this catalog, there are many things that are created by the users of the game, additional types of things that are already present, too, made by the Roblox company, and your child will have the ability to choose things such as clothing for their character that is personal and representative of your child’s preference and style.

Also your child can choose models for their characters that best represent them and images, different kinds of heads and faces are available, as well, so your child will be able to create a sort of avatar that is best representative of who they are and they will feel as they really are playing the game. They can choose gear, too, from the catalog, that they will use in the game, as well as various other sets that can help them when they start playing. If your child subscribes to Roblox and becomes a member, they can also have arms, legs, and torsos that are made and designed by the company and that will distinguish their characters from non members who still have access to all other features of the package. If your child is very proud of his or her creation, then he or she can take it to the Roblox catalog and if it is liked by other characters and players, then it can become a part of the catalog as well and other people can choose it in the future.

Roblox offers over eight million types of games that your child can participate in. Your child will get to choose a genre for the place in which they will play the game and they can choose pieces to build from that were already made or can create custom worlds where they can play using block style elements that they create worlds from that are often maze like. Usually a player can make about one hundred different locations using blocks for building that are given to them in an unlimited amount and supply. Usually while the player is building, they can use Lua scripting, which allows them to track their building process by creating a button and doing other things that enhance the building experience.

In fact, the builder can even use GUIs to help them build, and with these GUIS, that were once only used by administrators, players can make a control panel for a game with buttons and options that allow them to do certain things. There is a huge sense of custom built and self made fun in Roblox as the places are built by the players and the competitive nature of the game rises from the fact that a lot of it was self made, down to the buttons and the panels for control options.

Usually players also play for money currencies, as they earn it depending on things they do and have the ability to trade Robux and Tickets when they need to buy things. When people visit the places that they have built, they are awarded this currency and every time they log into the game, they also get paid. Also, if members want to sell their own creations, too, they may earn money that way, as well.

Hindi rock has been given a new avatar. This has come in the form of a reality show. Channel V Launch pad which has been a hit reality show and has also been credited with the launch of some of India’s new and very good rock bands like Zero, Them Clones, Zephyr, Reverse Polarity and a host of other big names is back for another season in 2009. Since 2005, the hit TV series has seen some great rock bands emerge. Here’s a look at some of the noteworthy bands that emerged as a result of the show and why they were considered as unique by the judges:

 

Them Clones: Them Clones is a rock band which won the first edition of Channel V Launch pad and were considered favorites from the beginning with their unique sound and vibrant personalities who best embodied the genre of rock that year. They have since gone on to enjoy commercial success as well as become recipients of countless awards and concerts which have taken them to foreign destinations like the United States.

 

The Superfuzz: This band has surely emerged as one of the best campus rock bands in India and is on a high after winning the Channel V launch pad in 2008. The band has now moved into Indian mainstream music and has a very catchy sound to it as a result of some great lead-guitar solos and the lead singer, Sanchal, can switch from shouting the lyrics of a particular song to actually singing a beautiful melody.

 

Helga’s Funk Castle: The band which originally started out as a jam band and were known for their impromptu performances and onstage antics on Channel V Launchpad soon started to change their music to funk. Their sound was much loved by all the judges on the show and their crowning glory came when they were chosen as winners, making them one of the most memorable bands that year.

 

Reverse Polarity: The newly crowned winners of the 2009 edition of Launchpad enthralled the audience and the judges of the reality show with their head banging and metal songs and walked away with the top honors.