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...CHARGED. DALER MEHNDI, 36, superstar of Indian bhangra music, with fraud for allegedly planning to smuggle migrants abroad by disguising them as musicians and dancers in his troupe; in Patiala, India. Mehndi, a former cab driver who rose to the top of the Punjabi-pop genre, denied the charges and said his brother, who was also charged, misused his name...
...There definitely is that danger of losing something,” Patel says. “You don’t want it not to be Bhangra anymore...
...Harvard Bhangra Team, led by Apurva K. Patel ’03, has been displaying their contemporary brand of the traditional Punjabi dance for years, but this is the first semester in which a slim majority of the members have no Indian roots...
While Patel says he is “excited” about the group’s sudden diversity, he says he’s concerned about the widening gap between the traditional form of Bhangra and the team’s modern interpretation. Not one of the 12 members is from the area of India where the dance originated, and none can speak Punjabi, the native language of Bhangra songs...
...While Bhangra is affected on a relatively small scale—Patel says people outside the group often casually joke about the dearth of non-Punjabi South Asians on the team—other groups say the problem arises at nearly every show...