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I have a schedule. And it rarely has visiting a honey clad place like Blue Frog on a Friday scribbled down somewhere on it. Leaving the details to roost, a bunch of pending reports and the fact that my girl…

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The 20 years referred to in the title of this 2CD collection is only the length of the Bombay-born percussionist’s solo career. Gurtu was already beginning to play Indian classical tabla at the age of six, eventually opening his jazz-fusion…

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For those who like their desi music with an edge, Mighty Asian Beats is a sharp slice through the UK’s urban music scene. Put together by Birmingham’s famous Shaanti club collective, this compilation boasts an eclectic mix of genres. Everything…

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As I walked out of the premiere of Ramu Ramanathan’s new play JAZZ at the Prithvi Festival 2007, I wondered how Shashi Kapoor, who was sitting a few rows ahead of me, would have felt about a play so scathing…

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