“...Where music dwells...

“...where music dwells
Lingering - and wandering on...

So goes a famous saying. And such is the feeling when, after a hard day’s work, one sits down with a shot of Jack Daniels listening to the haunting strains of ‘Suhani Raat Dhal Chuki’ wafting through the air from the LP player.

Cut to the present day. The LP player has been replaced by Hi-Fi music systems, iPods and other MP3 players. Another emerging avenue for music aficionados is the World Wide Web. Today millions of internet users search, listen and download music from the internet.

If you are one among the millions of Indians who have wished for a website that would cater to your music needs, then there is some good news in store. Two young, bright entrepreneurs recognized this need and launched Guruji.com, a ‘Made in India’ search engine based in Bangalore in the autumn of 2006.

They recently launched their latest offering, Music ka Guru, a music search. The music search caters to all kinds of Indian music, genres. From patriotic ballads to rustic folk songs, from lingering qawwalis to heart wrenching ghazals, from masala Bhojpuri to regional film songs, current and past, this site has a tune for every music lover. The company has seen great traction and increase in user volume following the launch of this service.

The site also has a great repertoire of Kannada songs. So one can listen to ‘Aadisi Nodu’ from the 1971 Rajkumar starrer, ‘Kasturi Nivasa’ sung in the mellifluous voice of P.B Srinivas or the evergreen ‘Jotheyali Jothejotheyali’ from the movie ‘Geetha’ featuring ‘Auto Shankar’, the late Shankar Nag.

There have also been some intriguing trends in the kind of Kannada music that people are searching for. Contrary to general perceptions, analysis shows that songs sung by Sonu Nigam are more searched for than Golden Star Ganesh’s. Songs by S Janaki also top the charts when it comes to Kannada music search apart from songs from the latest Sandalwood chartbusters.

So embark on a magical world with Guruji.com, full of melody and harmony. And it's not the romance of the blue moon of June, just the lilting tunes and lyrics in the journey of music.