I am a 19 year old Sikh musician currently located in the outskirts of Los Angeles, CA. I have attended the University of Oregon and will be attending the California Institute of the Arts starting January, 2007 with a focus on Indian music and clarinet performance.
gkkk04 said,
October 16, 2006 at 10:00 am
Sat Nam jio – I had the pleasure of meeting you with your parents and singing with them, you, and Snatam Kaur and company at the Memorial service two years ago for Siri Singh Sahib ji. You may remember, or not.
I am writing today to alert you to a problem that your blog is having, that you may not be aware of – your writing is being ripped off (“splogged”) by a website out of Spain called Bitacle.org, and reposted on their site with ads so that they can make money off your original work.
I myself only became aware of this happening to a number of other blogs I follow, in the last few days, as well as to my own blog when it was still on Blogger (I’m using WordPress.com now as well). Apparently this site has been operational for at least several months. I found your posts on it when I was searching to see if Snatam Kaur’s blog had been compromised as well (apparently not, I’m glad to say). Here is an example search results page from that search; you’ll see a number of your posts listed: http://en.bitacle.org/blogs/blogsearch/snatam.
Here as well are a couple of links from well-informed people trying to help others to stop this outrage: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-bitacle-battle-of-blogs/ ; http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/ (scroll down a bit) – both of these have a lot more links.
If you care about your content (and I’m sure you do; this is a lovely blog!), you may want to follow up on this.
Sat Nam and best regards to you jio; also hugs to your parents!
Gurukarm Kaur
Millis MA
PS – I’m submitting this as a comment to you because I’m not seeing a direct email link for you – you might want to delete this from the comments section when you get a chance!
Gena said,
April 21, 2007 at 5:19 am
this is beautiful Ram Dass, your expression and discoveries of your growing beauty, love, Gena
Nora said,
August 21, 2007 at 10:58 am
I found this beautiful side and now I’m writing you to tell you how I’m greatful to met you!! You have a beautiful voice and a wonderful connection with music!! I’m shure you will do grate in your life. Much Love..Nora
mishele said,
August 28, 2007 at 8:58 pm
excellent!u
Gena said,
September 23, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Ran Dass, wonderful phone call, thanks, I don’t know your email, hope you get this, congratulations for keeping walking and learning and opening to all the abundance and lessons, lots of love to you, great to hear you, happy, Gena
Baljinder Hundal said,
February 14, 2008 at 6:02 am
WJKWJKF
Ram Das ji, during your tour of Europe, my family
(My mom and my nephew ) and myself were amongst the sangat in England.
We attended the Guardwara performances in September 2007 and the concert at Kartar Kaur ji house.
You have added exellence to the group and you played the Clarinet beautifully. We would have liked to talk to you.Not enought time as we travelled 4 hrs that day and had to leave.
We hope to see more of you in the future with the peace jatha.
Chardi Kala 2 u