Word: tala
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...John Kohan. Reported by William Blaylock/Paris and Tala Skari/Lyon
...Festival from India" in Manhattan last week, he is the farthest thing imaginable from a pop musician. Rather, he is the foremost practitioner of one of the world's oldest and most sophisticated musical arts. Weaving the melodies of the classic raga into the intricate rhythms of the tala, he improvised compositions of the utmost subtlety, reveling in the musical growth that was taking place under his fingers, glorying in the sweat on his swarthy face. Playing a raga can be "like mounting a fiery horse," he says. His audiences could tell what he meant...
...excitement of the audience mounted with every minute. The sellers of native beer, the sweetmeat vendors the "yan-tabur" (literally "sons of tables," thus "barrow-boys") and the "yan tala" (purveyors of hot cooked meats or other foodstuffs) offered their little trays of sugared delicacies, of spiced offals stuck on a wooden skewer and liberally dusted with hot pepper, of puffed cracknells fried golden brown in seething oil, passing up and down in endless procession amongst the assembled multitude...
Volunteers. In Wellington, New Zealand, three junior members of the Tala Flat Volunteer Fire Brigade grew bored by the lack of fires, set one of their own for excitement, were fined $14 each by the brigade...
...woman, clothed in the style of a Yoruba tribe wedding ceremony. With his left leg wrapped around the right leg of his partner, the male seems to squirm in anticipation. Their arms are linked like square dancers on promenade. The Yoruba believe the lovers to be Oba Tala, the first...