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Starting Friday next week, the restaurant Smoke House Delhi will bring together a host of music artists to enthral you. On August 9, you can witness Lost Tribe of Hauz-i-Alai featuring Moodyboy and Su performing sonic nomads. Future Asians will perform on August 16 and Daft Punk will perform next day. You can also get to hear Unmute: Moar, Smoke House Residents and SONR in coming weeks.

As a part of the India Habitat Centre’s Lok Sangeet Sammelan, versatile artists Megha Sriram and Deshraj Lachkani will be performing folk songs in the Capital. Sriram, a young talent from Jharkhand has recorded many albums and her renditions in Bollywood films include Anwar and That Girl in Yellow Boots. Veteran sufi Dhadispecial traits, using the sai may seem no different than swinging around a pair of metal wrenches. Of course, the sai should be trained with much more intention and discipline, and with a far deeper purpose and goal. Nowadays, that goal is not to actually utilize the sai every day on the street or in a fight.

The beauty in training sai today is in the practice, the appreciation for its roots, and the long journey to achieve perfection through repeated lessons in imperfection.

Nicholas C. Yang (楊志豪碩士) began training martial arts as a child under the tutelage of his father Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming at Yang's Martial Arts Association (YMAA) in Boston, Massachusetts. He has competed in several international and national traditional Kungfu tournaments, including tournaments sponsored by the U.S.