Word: bhajan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...