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| Tabla
on Top |
| The recent near-spat between Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Zakir Hussain
has sparked off questions as to whether or not the tabla should get a more dominant role in a classical music concert, reports Shuma Raha |
| This was one sawaal-jawaab that went sour. One jugalbandi of titans that ended, not with a bang, but with a bad taste in the mouth. On February 11, sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar and tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain, two of the grea... |
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| Salaam Bombay |
| Asha remembers how she ached to speak Bengali when she first landed in Pune’s red-light district some 17 years ago. Toda
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| True grit |
| Shaheen peddles away furiously, urging her cycle to go faster. She can’t wait to get to the ‘centre’, and meet her colleagues and friends. She has a smile on her face and a job that supports her family. What she values most though, is ... |
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| Paper promises |
| Ten years ago, having gone through one set of arcane rituals to prove that we wished to live together as man and wife, my husband and I performed the second part of the marriage rites at the registrar’s office. The registration of the marriage w... |
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