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The world of music: open your ears to the sounds of these ineternational artists - the mix
CESARIA EVORA Cape Verde's greatest music export is Cesaria Evora, the queen of morna--barroom blues that speak of losing a beloved or longing for ......(Continue Reading) Grannie doesn't skip a bhangra beat - once the music of Punjabi peasants, bhangra has been transformed into popular music embraced by Indian youth
Sudhanva Deshpande [*] A lighthearted look at how elite youth "dig" their roots through expatriate relations The hi-fl is playing Bruce Springsteen, ......(Continue Reading)The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)In praise of vulgarity: How commercial culture liberates Islam—and the West
WHO WILL EVER forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another ......(Continue Reading)Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading)
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