Word: hindustani
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neha Mahajan '02 sang a vocal solo called "Chatur Bhuja Joolata Shama Hindore," a semi-classical song in the Hindustani tradition. And 13 cast members performed "Jaago Mohan Preetam," a group song with keyboard, guitar and drum...
...Neha Mahajan '02 sang a vocal solo called "Chatur Bhuja Joolata Shama Hindore," a semi-classical song in the Hindustani tradition. And 13 cast members performed "Jaago Mohan Preetam," a group song with keyboard, guitar and drum...
...teach them together; this [combined language] is what Gandhi called Hindustani. It's a very unusual language situation--the spoken language is almost identical," he says. "But once you get to classical literature, Hindi becomes Sanscritized and Urdu becomes Arabized or Persianized, so the languages become mutually incomprehensible...
...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...