Word: punjabi
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...breakthrough was Monsoon Wedding - an intimate family flick, a love song to my Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored, and a marigold-eating tent-man reinvents himself as an event manager only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family, and our wedding...
...over Britain's growing Muslim and South Asian character. The 29-year-old author, Gautam Malkani, is dripping with street cred, having grown up in Hounslow before moving on to a Cambridge degree and a senior job in journalism. The novel is written in an imaginative mix of English, Punjabi, Urdu, profanity, gangsta rap and mobile-phone texting. (As in, "Shudn't b callin us Pakis, innit, u dirrty gora.") Its multiculti flavor has led to Malkani being hailed in the celebrity-hungry British press as the next Monica Ali or Zadie Smith in a line of hot young "ethnic...
...Reddy ’06, did a good job of offsetting classical and modern acts, maintaining the audience’s interest by constantly switching dynamics. As it was appropriate to begin the show with bells and classical dance, so it made sense to conclude it with Bhangra, a Punjabi dance style that is undoubtedly the most popular crossover style today. The lively performance featured a number of songs commonly heard at recent parties, and the dance showcased the moves and hip-hop influence that have helped to make it so popular...
...background of classical training in South Asian dance. Her piece, “Hindi Film Dance: A Bollywood Journey” is an example of the ten dance performances in the show, which cover a broad range of dances from South Asia (and the South Asian diaspora,) from the Punjabi Bhangra style, to Chutney-Soca, which reflects Indian immigration into the West Indies, to fusion between modern and traditional forms. This is the first year that Nepali dance is included under the Ghungroo umbrella, and producers are proud that the repertoire for the annual performance continues to broaden. In addition...
...singles. "It's getting really big," says Rich. "It's crossing over; it's huge in America." In a sense, Rich's hardening of bhangra takes it back to its roots. As the music of the dry farms of the Punjab, bhangra lyrics were often gritty, and even today Punjabi artists are the most outspoken in India, singing about sex, drugs and crime just as their hip-hop peers do in the West. In that context, Mehndi was bhangra lite and a diversion, says DJ Rekha of New York's hip Bhangra Basement club: "Even back when...