Bengal and Calcutta or Kolkata as it is now called is a place I have wanted to go to forever. The people I met who came from there were a large part of the reason. Unfailingly brilliant conversationalists, intellectuals, liberals all. Another reason was the many bengali films seen at various film festivals over the years. We are speaking of the land of...
His deep gravelly velvet voice wraps itself around sanskrit verses with a love and authority that belies its owners American origin, perhaps it is so because Grammy nominated Krishna Das is more Indian in his work and in his dedication to his Guru than most modern day Indians can fathom to be. "His voice is like gravity," Nichtern says. "You just fall into...
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