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...bells on her ankles. This is the dancing style called ghungroo, from which the show itself takes it name. Among the singers, Devi SenGupta '98 gave a beautiful and captivating performance; accompanying herself instrumentally, she sang a ghazal and a nazrul geeti, traditional songs (in Urdu and Bengali respectively) about unrequited love, backed by Vivek Jain '96 on guitar and Peter Johnson playing a set of lively tabla drums. Bina Gogineni '98, an eloquent and multi-faceted performer, not only sang a meera bhajan--a Hindu devotional song--but later danced a beautiful individual solo in the ancient kathak style...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Cultural Extravaganza Thrills Sold-Out Crowd | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...SenGupta, mother of Devi SenGupta '98, came from Seattle to watch her daughter sing Ghazal and Nazrul Geeti--Urdu and Bengali songs of unfulfilled love...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: 'Ghungroo' Performances Sell Out | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...York City schools have experienced a 49% increase in non-English-speaking immigrants in six years. Besides Spanish, classes are now taught in Chinese, Haitian Creole, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Polish, Bengali and French. A few schools offer a full program in the student's native language, but most give at best an hour of native-language assistance, along with an hour of instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL). At Daniel Carter Beard Junior High in the borough of Queens, teacher Michael Cao faces a daunting task. His seventh-graders, most of whom speak little or no English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING TONGUES IN CHECK | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

This verse may be more nuanced and lyrical in the original Bengali, but the English translation conveys qualities that even most of Nasrin's supporters in Bangladesh readily concede: she is very angry, not given to nice distinctions, eager to shock and unconcerned with turning fine phrases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane Austen She's Not | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...explain Nanjing in 1937. The Chinese had not committed atrocities against the Japanese people when the Japanese marched into Nanjing and raped -- and often murdered -- tens of thousands of Chinese women. Nor can revenge entirely explain the behavior of Pakistani troops who in 1971 raped more than 250,000 Bengali women and girls in Bangladesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unspeakable: Rape and War | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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