How the tappa travelled east, transformed into the toppa, and became a widespread part of popular music in Bengal is a fascinating story of cultural and social shifts spanning over four centuries.Īs the name suggests, the northern tappa, believed to have been inspired by the songs of the camel drivers of Punjab-Sindh, literally trips and skitters over notes, words and beats, but with the singer in absolute control of the creative rein. Says Sarah Plowden, another 18th-century chronicler of Hindustani music, “A sort of wild, harsh music without any air.” “Wild but pleasing when understood,” says 18th-century music collector William Hamilton Bird in Oriental Miscellany (1789). The word wild pops up often in colonial descriptions of the tappa, a dazzlingly fast-paced, quirky music form that revels in the art of the unpredictable. Caught in fishing nets, sea snakes are dying along the Malvan coast of Maharashtra.Budget 2022-’23: With the economy in a crisis, Centre should consider a Covid tax on the ultra-rich.The big news: Omicron in community transmission stage, says genomics group, and 9 other top stories.Watch: Customer struggles through knee-deep snow to eatery, collapses on finding it closed.India’s first dugong reserve will help protect the world’s only herbivorous marine mammal.Top 10 coronavirus updates: Karnataka logs 50,210 cases, Delhi, Mumbai register dip in infections.‘Abide With Me’: Listen to the hymn that has been dropped from the Beating Retreat ceremony.Before Pakistan can produce any science worth the name, it must overcome its deeply held prejudices.Watch: Yashraj Mukhate of viral ‘Rasode Mein Kaun Tha’ fame is back with new video, ‘Boring Day’.IPL 2022: List of players retained, signed by new teams, purse details and auction breakdown.In Meerut, a Hindu woman resists Hindutva groups’ pressure to file a false case against a Muslim man.
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