| Five Notes of the Raga Contributor(s): Dasgupta, Bhaskar (Author) |
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ISBN: 1543489591 ISBN-13: 9781543489590 Publisher: Xlibris UK OUR PRICE: $18.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.55 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Five Notes of the Raga is about Indian music and Indian History. This short story that gives the book its name is an imagined encounter between two great personages of the sixteenth century Indian Bhakti movement: the blind musician Surdas and the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. There follows five musical plays staged in London, including the most recently staged Phool Walon ki Saira flower sellers procession that starts from a Hindu temple and ends at a Muslim shrine. Kavita K2k recounts Indian poetryancient and modern. Sheydiner Doojon is about the two bards of BengalTagore and Nazrul. T3 tells the time with timeless Indian Ragas and Tagore melodies. Lastly, Gulbagicha displays the repertoire of Nazruls creativity. The book ends with a few of Dasguptas poems. |