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Teej Where: North India, especially Rajasthan and Bihar When: Late July The Haritalika Teej is a fasting festival for Hindu married women. Women get together, dress up and then swing, umm... on jhoolas. It's the quintessential monsoon festival Adiperukku Where: Tamil Nadu When: Mid July-August Celebrated by women, the festival pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties. It's always celebrated near river basins, water tanks, lakes and wells Dree Where: Arunachal Pradesh When: July 5 Celebrated every year at Nenchaleya by the Apatani tribes to propitiate the Dree god to protect the crops from pests and diseases Minjar Where: Himachal Pradesh When: July-August Celebrated in Chamba, this seven-daylong affair is a thanksgiving ceremony to the god of rain and a prayer for good harvest Behdienkhlam Where: Meghalaya When: July Pnar tribe celebrates this monsoon festival where young men make a symbolic gesture of driving away the evil spirit The North East has more...

Harvey (Studio 54; 1,002 seats; $140 top) By Marilyn Stasio 'Harvey' Jessica Hecht and Jim Parson in 'Harvey' A Roundabout Theater Company production of a play in two acts by Mary Chase. Directed by Scott Ellis. Myrtle Mae Simmons - Tracee Chimo Veta Louise Simmons - Jessica Hecht Elwood P. Dowd - Jim Parsons Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Angela Paton Ruth Kelly, R.N. - Holley Fain Duane Wilson - Rich Sommer Lyman Sanderson, M.D. - Morgan Spector William R. Chumley, M.D. - Charles Kimbrough Betty Chumley - Carol Kane Judge Omar Gaffney - Larry Bryggman E.J. Lofgren - Peter Benson Comedy can be deadly. Just a few directorial misjudgments and uh-oh, sudden death: forced laughs, desperate thesps, and an aud growing surlier by the minute. Something like that has befallen the Roundabout's revival of "Harvey," Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a lovable man (memorably played by James Stewart in the 1951 movie) whose best friend is a 6-foot-...

De Kulture: Reviving and Repackaging Traditional Folk Music of India Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:31 PM PDT Meetha Khan and Jan Mohammad Jat inhabiting the remote village of Bhaagadia in the Rann of Kutch, have the distinction of being proponents of possibly the rarest of the rare music genres in India- the Waai style of music. (Image (c): De Kulture) Sufi Kalam, Swang Nritya, Terah Taali, Waai, Rasudo, Jangad, Kaafi � if you haven�t heard most of these words before you will definitely appreciate the need for this venture. They are just some of the fast-disappearing forms of traditional folk music you will get to listen to, download and purchase from De Kulture. In addition, you will get to know that Pabuji ki Phad is �an intrinsically traditional art of storytelling performed by the Bhopas or temple priests all over the fascinating lands of Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Churu, Sikar and Barmer regions of Rajasthan�. And that Maulud is a �form of music originating from beyond the seas in t...