last year carnatic music exponent s sowmyas musicarnival19 was all about encouraging students and connoisseurs of music to delve into their creativity and entertain discussion on music in a fun manner however the festival aug 79 this year will go online so games like antakshari wheel of fortune crosswords anagrams jumble and picture connect will be played through their sukrtam carnival website sowmya says it was a herculean task we had to create a web version for most of these musical games we shelved some of them but came up with interesting ones like amaze a raga based game and meld a musical card game while it was challenging to go online we are happy to be reaching globally this year we have participants from countries like the us and egypt games like dumb charades and pictionary will be played live on our facebook page we also have three prerecorded skits a puppet show a musical skit both by kids and a comedy skit young musicians that will be put upmusician l ramakrishnan who worked on the online version of these games says we looked out for preexisting tools that were readily available to customise these games online so the research took a lot of time apart from that we created a few games with the help of engineering students singer bharat sundar who handled the videos adds we wanted to give unique promos for each event i used to meddle with editing before but this time i spent a lot of time learning it similarly it took some time to put the skits recorded on mobile phones togetherso what about the technical challenges singer vidya kalyanaraman says since this is something new for us we are doing as many test runs as possible by going online we are creating a space for all those who couldnt witness the carnival last year the team also includes k gayathri ashwath narayanan ramanathan iyer bhavya hari preethi sethuraman praveen sparsh shreya devnath chandrashekara sharma subashri venkatramanan ranjani sivakumar brinda manickavasakan swati renganath pooja narayanan and meena kalyanaraman