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...destination. They use the unsuspecting husbands as a way to join these boyfriends. Or they use the husband for professional advancement or to transplant their siblings and parents from India. And when marriages go bad, the legal systems in most countries favor women, while men get a raw deal. Sriram Srinivasan, Bangalore, India...
...Mexican-Americans as their equals? Would those Asian-Americans care to live in black or Latino neighborhoods? Bigotry is not practiced exclusively by whites. When it comes to discrimination, it suits people when they are on the giving end and hurts them when they are at the receiving end. Sriram Srinivasan Bangalore, India...
...strings stirred together with just about every spice in the Western pop pantry, including drum 'n' bass, garage, funk and reggae. All the elements are on display on Signs (Outcaste), their thrilling second CD. "This music works as well in Norway as it does in London or New York," Sriram says. "People like to get their heads blown apart." Says Ali: "We're not making music in a particular genre for a particular group...
Badmarsh & Shri are an unlikely team: the Yemeni-Indian Ali, 34, grew up in East London listening to black dance music before becoming a DJ; Sriram, who moved to London from India in 1997, plays bass and has tastes that range from Rush to Herbie Hancock. After meeting in 1998, they decided to record together--Ali spinning and mixing, Sriram laying down bass lines and melodies--and within a month they had finished Dancing Drums. "Shri became my human sampler," Ali says. "Instead of sampling from vinyl, I sampled from...
Signs closes with Badmarsh & Shri's sparest song to date: Appa, which features Sriram's father, T.S. Sriram, playing a delicate sitar raga, backed by the Strings of Bombay. Sriram included the song on the album not only as a homage to his father but also as a retort to those pretenders--the guys who couldn't hold their sitars properly--who once populated the so-called Asian underground. "I thought I'd show people what real sitar can sound like," he says. "Even my father says he never knew he could sound that good...