Tim Koh’s Brownie Mix
02/04/2010 · Mansi Shah
Tim made an amazing mix for Brown Town! Thanks TK, you rule.
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01 / Asha Bhosle – Motiyon Ki Lari Hoon Main
02 / Kalyanji Anandji – Pyar Sikha Doon
03 / Golimar – Chiranjeevi Song
04 / Geeta Dutt – Piya Aiso Jiya Mein
05 / Lata Mangeshkar – Raton Ke Saye
06 / Asha Bhosle – Ae Dekho Yahan To ara
07 / Noor Jehan – Khuda Khud Pyar Karta
08 / R.D. Burman – Kisi Se Dosti Karlo
09 / Bappi Lahri – Raat Baaki
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Sahib, HPB aur Ghulam: Khandala’s verdant and perfumed abyss
01/24/2010 · Alexander Keefe
Rani Mukherjee wants to know what there is to do in Khandala. H.P. Blavatsky has some advice for her, in From the caves and jungles of Hindostan, a sensationalist post-spiritualist travelogue of India, written during 1879 and 1880 for the pages of the Russki Vyestnik and translated into English in 1902. In this excerpt, HPB and her entourage are sitting out on their bungalow’s veranda in the famed hill station, trading stories about Atlantis and discussing Dayanand Saraswati’s theory that the Sanskrit word pātāla (i.e. “hell”) originally was used for the Americas (i.e. underworld), which were visited by ancient Indians via the Bering Strait. Suddenly, their innkeeper issues an ominous warning:
It was long past midnight, but we still sat listening to this legend and others of a similar kind. At length the innkeeper sent a servant to warn us of the dangers that threatened us if we lingered too long on the verandah on a moonlit night. The programme of these dangers was divided into three sections—snakes, beasts of prey, and dacoits. Besides the cobra and the “rock-snake,” the surrounding mountains are full of a kind of very small mountain snake, called furzen, the most dangerous of all. Their poison kills with the swiftness of lightning. The moonlight attracts them, and whole parties of these uninvited guests crawl up to the verandahs of houses, in order to warm themselves. Here they are more snug than on the wet ground. The verdant and perfumed abyss below our verandah happened, too, to be the favourite resort of tigers and leopards, who come thither to quench their thirst at the broad brook which runs along the bottom, and then wander until daybreak under the windows of the bungalow. Lastly, there were the mad dacoits, whose dens are scattered in mountains inaccessible to the police, who often shoot Europeans simply to afford themselves the pleasure of sending ad patres one of the hateful bellatis (foreigners). Three days before our arrival the wife of a Brahman disappeared, carried off by a tiger, and two favourite dogs of the commandant were killed by snakes. We declined to wait for further explanations, but hurried to our rooms. At daybreak we were to start for Karli, six miles from this place.
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NGUZUNGUZU DISCOPRANCA
01/23/2010 · Mansi Shah
(via Tagbanger)
The Other Song
01/04/2010 · Mansi Shah
In 1935, the Indian singer Rasoolan Bai sang, “My breasts are wounded, don’t throw flowers at me”. Never to be sung again, the song eventually got lost. Seventy-four years later, director Saba Dewan travels through Varanasi in southern India, in search of that forgotten song and the story of the women who inspired it. She encounters the modern-day descendants of the courtesans who, until a century ago, were amongst the most educated of Indian women. Today they’re considered deviants. Yet, their stories are irrevocably linked to the making of modern India, and the transitions around the censorship of female sexualities and cultural expression. – DIFF
Interview with Saba Dewan at Dubai International Film Festival 2009
Still from The Other Song (2009)
Rasoolan Bai – Phool Gendawa Na Maaro, Lagat Karejwa Mein Chot
U. Srinivas
07/23/2009 · Grant Davis
U. Srinivas was born on February 28, 1969, in Palakol, Andhra Pradesh. His father, Satayanarayana Raju, taught him initially and he made his first public appearance at the age of nine. He proved a revelation and was hailed as a child prodigy. Choosing to use a less traditional form of the mandolin, he uses a five-string solid body electric model akin to the electric instrument played by the American mandolinist Tiny Moore. He is noted as the pioneer of the mandolin in Indian Carnatic music.
The Electric Guitar Cont’d, from Ghalib to Guru Dutt to Vampires
06/27/2009 · Grant Davis
Phir Mujhe Deeda-e-taar Yaad Aaya from the 1954 film Mirza Ghalib.
Sunil Ganguly’s steel guitar rendition of Chaudhvin Ka Chand, from Guru Dutt’s
1960 film of the same title.
Dance scene from Khwaja Sarfraz’s 1967 vampire film Zinda Laash.
Chinese Guy Sings Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai
06/09/2009 · Grant Davis
तुझ में रब दिखता है (Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai) was certainly the most memorable song to be released at the close of 2008. It was featured in Aditya Chopra’s latest film, रब ने बना दी जोड़ी (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi), starring Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma.
Original, as sung by Roop Kumar Rathod
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Yeh Jo Halka Halka Suroor Hai
06/02/2009 · Grant Davis
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Qawwali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Rajasthani Banjara
04/30/2009 · Mansi Shah
Scenes from Tony Gatlif’s Latcho Drom (1993):
Latcho Drom, also known as Safe Journey, is the second film in Gatlif’s trilogy about the Romani (Gypsy) people. The Romani are an ethnic group that presently live in the Central European states and the Balkan peninsula but linguistic and genetic evidence shows their Indo-Aryan origins. The roots of the Romani language being ancient Punjabi and originating from the modern Indian state of Rajasthan.
Latcho Drom follows Les Princes (1983) and precedes Gadjo Dilo (1997).
Malik Brothers
04/24/2009 · Mansi Shah
Zeb, Shoaib and Hassan Malik photographed by Chris Luxton.