Word: tumbi
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...look at Daler Mehndi like a maharajah," Mehndi explains.) He still has the same spring-soled bounce and huge smile. And, in the studio, he's clearly enjoying the music as much as ever. As they fine-tune the tracks, Mehndi has discussions about rhythms with his technicians and tumbi players that go like this...
...Mehndi: Dung dung dara dara dung dung. Technician: Ding ding da di da da DAK? Tumbi player: Ta blakakak dak dak? Mehndi: Neh. Dabadung dakadaka dakadaka DING...
...bloody blankets, frightened refugees have been streaming across the border at the rate of over 800 a day since the revolt began. All have their stories of indiscriminate Portuguese brutality. Pedro Neves, 30, took a bullet in the leg when two Portuguese army planes strafed his village of Tumbi. Twelve-year-old Andre Destino's village of Boa Nuta was first strafed, then raided by troops in trucks. They shot and killed his father and brother, left him for dead with his left buttock shot away. "I estimate we've killed 30,000 of these animals already," bragged...
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