Nirupama Menon Rao on South Asian Identity
Ideas of India
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Is M.S. Ublakshmi a Political Statement?
M.S. Ublakshmi sang my three bhajata at the UN, and I thought that's a very political moment without making an explicit political statement. The words expressed to me so much, and you know, when she sings, dia dia dvam dam mia dha, which means compassion and tolerance and generosity and self-control. In fact, these were the words that also TS Eliot picked up when he began to write his poetry. We try to sing it in as simple a way as possible with no frills, no accoutre mores because it doesn't need that kind of thing. It is so sublime, the message it
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