Indian vegetarian thali is the best thing ever! The Southern version in particular. Also do watch a video on how to eat it.
A good place to have it abroad is Saravana Bhavan. The founder killed a dude to marry his wife, but failed and was sentenced to life prison. But he died in 2019 so we're all fine eating there now.
Figure 1. Source. This Wikipedia image of Thali is fundamentally wrong: you have to have a banana leaf on the bottom of the tray!
This was Ciro Santilli's main study/work music for several years around 2020. Tabla rules.
Video 1. Raag Puriya Dhanashri performed on the Sitar by Shahid Parvez. Source.
This dude is amazing. He apparently has many devotional songs.
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Video 1. Pandit Jasraj and Ustad Zakir Hussain - 1987 - Haveli Sangeet, Malkauns, and Bhairavi. Source.
It is very similar to the Chinese suona.
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Video 1. Divine Shehnai by Saregama Hindustani Classical (2023) Source.
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Video 1. Jugalbandi in Chartaal-Ki-Sawari from album Together (1990) Source. Background?
Video 2. Taal Pancham Sawaari by Zakir Hussain. Source. The top YouTube commend mentions:
This video was made in 1970, on Zakir's first visit to the USA. He and Aashish Khan (keeping taal next to him) had a guest residency at UW Seattle, under the ethnomusicology dept. set up by Robert Garfias.
Two are riculously well known:
Video 1. Tabla Solo in Jhaptal by Alla Rakha, featuring Ravi Shankar (2003) Source.
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