Word: gujrati
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...both became involved with Ghungroo as freshman; Charitha had received classical dance training for several years and performed in the Raas (Gujrati folk dance) and despite his own dancing ‘prowess,’ Deip decided to try his hand at light managing for the show. Ghungroo was such an incredible experience for the both of us that we returned the following year, with Charitha as Assistant Director and Deip as Technical Director. Junior year we were both only able to dance, but we were very excited to return to the helm of the show for our senior...
...would be naive to state that these peoples, religions, and cultures co-exist peacefully in South Asia. For instance, in the real world, a dance from Kerala is not likely to be performed alongside the Gujrati Raas, and the Ghazal is rarely heard in the same setting as a Hindu devotional song. Government’s tempers flare with nuclear heat and religious fundamentalism is becoming a force in multi-class coalition building. Thus, it is crucial that when we represent South Asia, we do not forget the problems and challenges that persist...
...argued. "The Chief Minister needs a certificate of the people of Gujarat and he will get that." No doubt, analysts say. "The Hindu chauvinist government is looking for the Hindu vote," charges Chunibhai Vaidya of the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmadabad, former home of Mohandas K. Gandhi, a native Gujrati. "They feel what happened, whatever was achieved, was good...
...factions who have cried for the fragmentation of India along the boundary lines of its 844 languages and dialects. The key move, thought up by Nehru's Socialist and independent opponents and gratefully grasped by him, was to fuse the hostile linguistic factions of Marathas (27.5 million) and Gujrati (17.5 million) into one big, Texas-sized, bilingual State of Bombay...
...possibility of a sensible solution of an anxious question confounded the Communists, who multiply upon the sting of linguistic hatreds, and infiltrate smaller states more easily. "No, no, no!" the Communist M.P.s cried when the outcome was announced. Next day the Communists got some comfort when Gujrati students raged through the squalid streets of the textile center of Ahmedabad demanding a separate Gujarati state, attacking police and politicians in confused skirmishes that cost the city 16 dead...
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