Word: tambura
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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While turbaned musicians, sitting cross-legged on the floor, thumped on queer-shaped drums with fingers, palms and sticks, clinked tiny cymbals and strummed the twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace...
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