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Amit S. Patel ’07 sat on a rug tapping the tabla, a pair of Indian drums. Patel accompanied Om L. Lala ’06 and Rajiv Venkataramanan ’08 as they sang a bhajan to Shiva, a song they had learned while children in the same Hindu Saturday school. As the beat got faster, the whole room clapped along in rhythm...
...sang a ghazal and a nazrul geeti, traditional songs (in Urdu and Bengali respectively) about unrequited love, backed by Vivek Jain '96 on guitar and Peter Johnson playing a set of lively tabla drums. Bina Gogineni '98, an eloquent and multi-faceted performer, not only sang a meera bhajan--a Hindu devotional song--but later danced a beautiful individual solo in the ancient kathak style. And Mattar Bhattacharya '98, co-president of SAA, gave a splendid recital in traditional Hindustani style on the sarod, an intimidating 24-string instrument of 19th-century Afghanistani origin...
...performances also included a tribute to South Asian Music titled "Fusion of East and West" and traditional folk songs such as Bhajan, Qawwali and Urdu songs...
...chanting "Who's the next? Rajiv Gandhi!" Last week the FBI charged that three Sikhs were planning to carry out that threat by killing Gandhi when the new Prime Minister visits the U.S. June 11 to 15. The FBI said the plot, along with another alleged conspiracy to assassinate Bhajan Lal, chief minister of the northern Indian state of Haryana, was the work of a Sikh extremist group in the U.S. that may have as many as 50 members...
According to an FBI affidavit filed last week, the agency videotaped encounters between an undercover agent and Gurpartap Singh Birk, 33, along with other Sikhs who allegedly wanted paramilitary training. Birk was also looking for a hit man to assassinate Gandhi and do away with Bhajan Lal, the affidavit states. Birk and three others were arrested in early May in New Orleans outside the hotel where Bhajan Lal was staying...