#indian

tony@diasporasocial.net

Charanjit Singh
Born 15th December 1940 - died 5th July 2015.

Indian musician from Mumbai who performed in numerous Bollywood soundtrack orchestras during the sixties and seventies.
Singh led a wedding band, recorded and released a number of albums of cover versions of popular songs. His album Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat, which was released in India in 1983 was a flop but its discovery in 2002 and re-release in early 2010 made him a star among DJs and electronica music mavens. The album has been credited as one of the earliest acid records ever made.

#Indian #electronica #music https://youtu.be/J1yG7SwTPX4

chris@diaspora.freifunk-naila.net

GOTTA LOVE EDMONTON #1

A montage of a chain of incidents with composite conversation a la 'The Conversation' 1974, with Gene Hackman.

"Police complaint line, can I help you?"
"Yes, I filed a complaint 2 weeks ago, file #_________."
"The stolen Honda civic and the Aboriginal thief?"
"Yes."
"Do you have more information?"
"Yes, you can close the file.
"Why"
"The thief died last night in the cold. It was -20°C. He was homeless. He banged on my door at 11:00pm. I threw him out. He was found this morning in the creek ravine. He had mental health issues and was Aboriginal."
"Well, there's one less bad guy in the world."
"Well, he stole my car, and several others, but he was damaged, not 'bad'". "The damage left his head scrambled and it was in a different world from the rest of us. He couldn't get along with people." "And so he was broke", "And homeless."

"He was all of those things because he was Aboriginal, so his mother, being in the Edmonton, had no access to traditional supports when she was pregnant and had a new baby. The White system afforded her no access to White resources so mother and child had basically no support at all. Probably she had no money, either to keep herself or to raise a child."

"And, of course, she was dealing with the effects of 157 years of abuse to her population by Canada, and so had a lot of internal damage of her own to deal with."

"So, really, the fact that he lived till thirty something is rather remarkable, and the fact that he died is more proof of the systemic racism of the system. But never mind, just make a note in the file."
'Goodby'.

#Edmonton, #Alberta, #Indian, #Thief

faab64@diasp.org

Took advantage of being back in Paris for a short time and bought a lot of beans and spices at half the price compared to those in south of France.

It's unbelievable how much cheaper these products are in Paris. I bought 2 full bags of beans, spices, peanut butter and vegetables for 53 euros. The same items would cost me at least 90-100 euros here in the south.

Carrying them on the full packed train was a drag but now I can make some delicious Indian food for the coming months.

#Food #France #Paris #Beans #Spices #Indian #Cooking #Economy

aljazeera@squeet.me

Rescued Indian tunnel workers talk about underground ordeal | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Video shows the moment the first of 41 Indian tunnel workers was rescued after 17 days trapped underground. Some of them have been talking about what happene...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Collapse #India #Indian #Trapped #Tunnel #TunnelWorkers #Underground #Workers #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Rescued Indian tunnel workers talk about underground ordeal | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

aljazeera@squeet.me

First pictures of India’s trapped tunnel workers | AJ #shorts

A tiny underground camera has provided the first video of dozens of Indian tunnel workers who've been trapped for the past 10 days in Uttarakhand. Rescuers a...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Indian #Rescuers #Uttarakhand #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #camera #dig #dozens #latestnews #newsheadlines #tiny #trapped #tunnel #underground #workers
First pictures of India’s trapped tunnel workers | AJ #shorts

elegance@socialhome.network

Indian fishermen's song: Hai La Sa | the Laya Project

Dr. K.A. Gunasekharan - vocals
Tabla/Percussion: K.V. Balakrishnan - tabla/percussion
G. Parthasarathy - mohrsung/percussion:
Chinmayi - female vocals
A. K. Devi - sripada veena
B. V. Ragavendra Rao - violin
A. Saravanan - tavil/percussion:
B. Hemanathan, G. Ravi Chandran - nadaswaram
Patrick Sebag - keyboard, programming and ping:
Madras String Section
Paul Jacob - bass

#music #traditional #Indian #fishermen #song #Laya-Project