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Two days of learning, discussions, and real-world business insights. 🎓

We hosted MBA students from LIBA at TASE for a two-day masterclass covering Challenges in Services Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Management.

From exploring business challenges to understanding entrepreneurship and management in practice, the sessions brought classroom concepts closer to real-world application.

Here’s what the LIBA students had to say about their experience at TASE. 👀

#TASEIndia #LIBA #Masterclass #Entrepreneurship #ServicesMarketing

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RIP Jaishankar Iyer ! - You were a wonderful human being ! Until we meet again.

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Camp OASIS’26! Instilled by Hope that the church is being strengthened by the dedication and life of youths who love their Lord God. Three days of experiences shaped by a vision, thanks to @team_jmma for creating an atmosphere where we could form ourselves. Big shout out to Samji Achen and @jmtc_uths_ for this blessed camp. Theme : “TUNED IN”- based on John 10:27, we meditated on three crucial words - HEAR: Listening to God’s voice and seeking clarity, KNOW: God knows us, do we know Him? if so how do we abide in him? & FOLLOW: We now choose a way, a way called Jesus and live by it. By the end of the sharing and dedication session around 13 youths promised to spend a minimum of one month to one year serving as a volunteer at the Missions of the Mar Thoma Church. So we can humbly say, we have been TUNED IN! Praise God.

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The first time Sanjai and I sat down to work out what this song was going to be.

He played a few options. This was the one I loved.

We agreed that afternoon to keep it stripped down. Guitar and strings, nothing else. The song had already waited nineteen years. It didn't need help, it needed room.

Everything on the finished record started here, in this room, on a phone.

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The words, in full, since they deserve to be read and not just heard.

This poem was written in 2007. Dragons, mermaids, pirate ships, a boy who could fly. Then a job, a family and a wedding ring, and the whole thing turns without ever raising its voice.

I set it to music that same year on six chords and an old laptop, and then sat on it for nineteen years. Which, for a song about time getting away from you, remains either very on theme or spectacularly bad admin.

The line I keep coming back to is not the chorus. It is "but some days I remember that little boy, in a simple land, with his simple joy." That is the whole song. Not a wish to go back, just an acknowledgement that he is still in there, somewhere behind the inbox.

Words by Rohan Tharyan.
Produced by Sanjai Shine, who also played guitar and sang backing vocals.
Mixed and mastered by Mervin Thomas.

The Death of Peter Pan, out now. Link in bio.

Tell me which line got you. I have a guess.....

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Growing up is inevitable. It was always the plan.

You get the degree, you get the job, you pay the bills on time. You learn to stand in front of a room and say something useful. You look after people, and animals, and inboxes. Nobody asks whether you feel ready, because readiness was never on the form.

Slide one is that. Research, teaching, the NGO, standing in the cold holding a sign because some things are worth being cold for.

Slide two is the other thing.

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Chile, jumping for no reason. My PhD graduation, where I had earned the right to wear the gown and immediately ruined the photograph. New Year's Eve in Cardiff, alone, until a friend flew in from Holland so I wouldn't be. Forty years old with my face in an ice cream cone, in Cardiff again, not caring who was watching.

The second set is not a break from the first. It is what makes the first survivable.

Somewhere along the way we decided seriousness was the proof of adulthood, and that silliness had to be outgrown rather than budgeted for. It doesn't. You learn the boundaries, you read the room, you don't throw tantrums in meetings. Within all of that, there is still plenty of room to be ridiculous with people who love you.

Some days that child comes back, and I am glad she can.

The Death of Peter Pan. Out now

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Greetings and welcome to my organised chaos of a life.

Tried a viral Gen-Z trend, I miserably failed, but 10 points for effort. Not because the trend is brilliant, but because you give these soul-less algorithms what they want and, apparently, it's chic to question the inanity of it all and then take part anyway.

What follows is an unreasonable number of slides proving I have never once picked a lane. Not a strategy. Just what happened.

New single out. The Death of Peter Pan. More on that at the end.

Enjoy the mini drama movie trailer!

Ancient artefact. A mixtape from the late 90s- early 2000s. Handwritten in blue ink, neatly? Side A opens with Lou Bega, you remember that horribly sexist song ‘’A little bit of Monica by my side….”? (Feminist in me screaming now).

On side B, we have Peter Andre, Ricky Martin and then…Guns ‘N’ Roses’ – November Rain. Robbie Williams also appears twice, because once was clearly not enough.

People assume musicians grew up on good music. I grew up on Steps and 98 degrees and I turned out (mostly) fine.

An actual peer reviewed paper in the Journal of Individual Differences, written with Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska in Poland. It is about rumination and brooding. We named it after a Monty Python song, and those who know me will not be surprised.

I also listen to deliberately sad music for pleasure. The paper says this is adaptive, so I am considering the matter closed.

Speaking of sad music, the lyricist of 'The Death of Peter Pan' introduced me to 'Creep' in 2006, and that began a twenty-year Radiohead problem I have never especially wanted to solve.

Ten years later I was at their show in Berlin(Lollapalooza, 2016). Second encore, two songs from the end, a song they cannot stand and had barely played in years. They played 'Creep'.

Most people travel or go home over the winter break. I went to Lesvos, Greece to volunteer at Camp Moria, then the largest refugee camp in Europe and one of the most inhumane. Built for 3,000 people, it held more than 20,000 at its worst.

I came home and started Rethinking Refugees. Nobody plans that. The second photo is our first event poster, Kraków, 2018. Almost ten years on, it

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It's out. The Death of Peter Pan. Written in 2007, released in 2026, which I am reliably informed is not the industry standard turnaround.

Everyone who has heard it so far has told me they loved it on WhatsApp. I am grateful, truly. I would just gently point out that WhatsApp is a private messaging app and Spotify is not reading it.

So if you do like it, the version that actually helps is this. Put it on your story and tag @taritamusic. Or send the link to one person who has never met me.

Independent artists have no marketing budget, only friends with phones.

Link in bio.

#indiemusic #newmusic #singersongwriter

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Music was always there growing up.

In 1988 I was photographed posing with a pair of drumsticks, which was apparently enough evidence for everyone to conclude I was a drummer.

By 2006 I had progressed to actually being in a band, and that year we played our first outstation gig with the Flabbergasted Tequilas, just before I left for my Master's, and the song was slowly coming to life.

And then there is 2026, when I found myself back on a stage singing Radiohead, which feels rather fitting given that Thom Yorke is perhaps a poet of pathos, an identity I carved out for myself, thanks.to my dad making that comment after reading my poems. And then this song carries the vaguely ominous title "The Death of Peter Pan". Something eerily beautiful about that, and a little bittersweet, because the song is in its own strange way about the inconvenient discovery that Peter Pan cannot stay Peter Pan.

The lucky part came when I went digging through old emails and found the original recording, having spent many years unaware that I was sitting on it.

And then I looked at the file. It was an mp2. Yes, it is that old. 20 March 2007 was the day I finally finished the song and sent it to the mastermind behind the poem.

What you are hearing underneath all of this is that recording, made on my laptop in 2007 with no editing, no mixing and no production of any kind, just me and a guitar, so you are getting exactly what existed then, static included. Listen carefully and you will hear a whole stanza that did not survive, largely because squeezing the word exhilaration into a song turns out to be harder than it sounds.

Nineteen years later it is sitting in a queue waiting for a stranger to approve it. Out any day now.

The Death of Peter Pan
Words by Rohan Tharyan
Produced, Backing Vocals & Guitar by Sanjai Shine
Mixed and mastered by Mervin Thomas

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You can talk about acoustics all day… but sometimes, it’s easier to just hear it. 🎧

Same room. Same sound.
Just before and after acoustic treatment.

The idea isn’t to kill the room or make it completely dead. It’s simply about controlling the reflections you don’t need, while letting the room still feel natural.

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And now the part I did not plan for.

The song has been submitted, everything is apparently in order, and it is currently sitting in a queue somewhere waiting for a human at a distributor to look at it and press approve. Which means The Death of Peter Pan is going to arrive in the world over the next day or two rather than tonight.

The best part is that adulting has taken over so much of my actual adult life, and I still managed to forget that submission and approval were a step at all. I had a date in my head and I built the entire week around it, quite happily, in my own little bubble. Much like the boy in the song, who also never checked the paperwork.

While it waits for its bureaucratic blessing, here is the artwork.

I wanted the cover to feel like a moment caught between leaving and looking back. A woman stands with her back turned at the edge of something, looking out at a world she can see but cannot quite walk into again. There is no dramatic ending and no great revelation in it, only that slightly uncomfortable feeling of realising that some versions of your life now exist only as places you remember.

That felt right for this song, because The Death of Peter Pan is not really about a child who wants to grow up, or an adult who wishes she could magically become a child again. It is about the strange space in between, where you have grown into someone you never quite imagined becoming while still carrying around small pieces of who you were before everything got complicated.

Anyway, Peter Pan is currently being held hostage by the distribution industry.

I will shout the minute he is released. Save your ears.

#tarita #newsingle #singersongwriter #indianindie #unsignedartist

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The odd part of being interviewed is hearing your own song explained back to you. Anoushka Kundu found the thing I have spent weeks failing to say, and said it better. Thank you, and thank you to Indulge Express for giving this little song so much room.

Most of my adult life I have been firmly one version of myself. The academic. That part isn't going anywhere. I suspect my academic brain will follow me around until I am very old, still turning every mildly interesting observation into a research question.

But I have carried this all-or-nothing idea that you are either a scientist or an artist. One belongs in a university, the other on a stage. As if the two have to justify themselves to each other before they are allowed to share a person.

Still figuring that one out.

The Death of Peter Pan has been sitting with me since I was 19. Two decades, a career, several countries, a pandemic, several versions of myself, and it ends up here.

In a couple of hours it stops being mine.

Out everywhere tonight. There is a bit of it here too.

Produced by Sanjai Shine
Mixed & Mastered by Mervin Thomas
Lyrics written by Rohan Tharyan

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