Namaste, Dear Music Lover,

Updated July 1, 2024: My astute web team has fixed our recent SSL certificate issue. Actually, a fix was done for us by our hosting provider. If you experience any such SSL annoying errors, please clear your browser history and reload the site.

We apologise for any inconveniences, and look forward to serving you MORE great Bollywood and Bengali music content and conversations without errors. I personally prefer no errors ever, but life sometimes presents challenges, and I’m delighted to report that not only is this site functioning correctly with all of its parts (including the best site and user security available anywhere), it now loads pages far faster than in the past. —♫ AM ♫

PS: Music lovers may contact my web team at info@antaramitra.com with site-improvement ideas or usability issue reports. Thanks again!

Old news: Depending upon how you choose to access this, my WWW blog-site, you may be seeing some SSL site errors. We apologise and want you to know that this is due to a very temporary issue that we plan to correct!

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Please don’t worry. Yes, there is a problem of which my web team is well aware. This is due to our budgeting limitations at this time, and I have full confidence that sooner than later (we hope before my birthday, but certainly some time this year), we will have a new SSL certificate installed, and we can continue to maintain the site in tip-top shape for at least another year! There are far worse problems to have, and while I don’t like to point fingers at other sites, you may have noticed that we’re not alone among artist “web presences” in experiencing such annoying circumstances. It’s all temporary when we look at the big, historical frame.

This World Wide Web site business isn’t free to own and maintain, and my developers are doing their best to provide us a site that will make us all proud! I’m not cheap, and that’s not even what caused this! I’m told that certain moneyed interests caused it inadvertently, or at least so I’m told.

Along with the random configuration issue due to a temporary budget matter, I can also report that none of what you can glimpse of our less than perfect presentation here is due to the inclusion of ANY AI (Artificial Intelligence) code or factors. My lead developer and personal footman Joe is on task with “multiple irons in the fire”, as a quaint old expression goes. On the positive side, the site still has all of its parts (other than that) and work is still being done! Not by me; I am busy with my music obligations. (My entire team wants nothing more than to please me. This mini-crisis will pass.)

While we may at times play with various tools and funny aspects of the existing tech like AI, one thing that isn’t happening here is AS (Abject Stupidity). We aren’t stupid, and we are constrained to limit how well we work by the volume of our budget, which has been reduced drastically in the past year because my family is also building our own music project studio overseas, and we are doing renovations on our home retreat in the States. We have so much more to do…

While I would love to show and tell you all about that, it’s just too soon to elaborate on it, or on my Union Territory kitchen (that is actually closer to completion than our project studio). My Baba and Maa want any “big reveal” to wait until certain other legal processes are completed before we release the details of our family projects. We may or may not be sharing details about the new physical location that we’re developing until the appropriate documents are executed and archived. Next year (2025)? Don’t worry. We’ll keep you posted!

So with all of that, we hope you’ll take care to keep smiling, and know that even if no one else does, God definitely loves you just like us. Give thanks! Amen. God helps those who help themselves (and others in need)!

Thank you again so much for all of your love 🧡 and support for my career, the movie and other songs we record, Bollywood’s ongoing successes, and our live shows and the great feedback we get about keeping Bengali culture alive and vital. We love you, too! 🧡

This blog-site might not be quite ready for prime time, but we are excited about the great promise our shared future holds, not only for a web site, but for how our adds to the global music scene are destined to unfold. Despite a few errors, it still reads and works as it always has… patience is golden, just like silence. 👯‍♀️ (When in doubt, maybe just dance, lol! FYI, I tend to dance in the kitchen, where I’m a total boss, lol.)

We trust that you’ll understand and continue to support our work, as we are able to release it in pieces and phases, or as it’s said, in dribs and drabs, lol. Song by song…Just know that “we’re on the job.” 👨‍💻🧑‍✈️ Enjoy monsoon!

All things must pass. —G. Harrison (including tech/money hurdles).

Namaste,

♫ AM ♫

PS: There is so much more to share, but for now it must by law remain largely unpublished, until we have the resources to do it all the right ways. That’s about all we can share now, and here. 🇮🇳 Maybe by this time next year (sorry for the extended delays) we will also have my song discussion forum Antara’s Bollywood Takes fully done and up and running!!