Garba
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Sep 15, 2026
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
Uh-huh.
Maitreyi RamakrishnanGUEST
But then we also had to do Bharatanatyam and Kathak and Garba and, like, like, let's try Bhangra and, um, just all these other styles of South Asian dance, 'cause there's so many.
Maitreyi RamakrishnanGUEST
Like, cultural, like, culturally dependent.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
In Uttar Pradesh, an FIR was registered against a Muslim politician over offering namaz in a public place.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
In Maharashtra, VHP functionaries called for Muslims to be barred from Garba and Dandiya events.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
And in Bhopal, BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma spoke about firing a missile at Qazi Camp, a Muslim majority area.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
He later said he was referring to a place in Islamabad.
Henika PatelGUEST
Um, and as a young child, uh, it would involve going into a big hall, um, seeing the figure of a [clears throat] warrior goddess [laughs] in the middle Uh, decorated with lanterns and fruits and beautifully changed and ornated every day.
Henika PatelGUEST
And the dance that would be performed around the goddess figure would be called Garba, and Garba means womb.
Henika PatelGUEST
So, uh, we would always go to dance Garba every year, and it's a set of very repetitive movements that forms in a circular, almost womb-like motion if you were to look at it from above.
Henika PatelGUEST
Um, the swirling that you would see, uh, I write about it, almost like a kaleidoscope of colors because you wear these big kinda dome shape, um, skirts as you're spinning.
Henika PatelGUEST
Um, w- the only way that I could describe those touches with those festivals and that dance is that it, it's a trance through repetition, um, through the music, the drums.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
That's the thing.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
They would become ecstatic around him, like that, uh, Garba style.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
They would all just go like crazy.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
But the murti in the center of the Garba, and that's what the Garba is like, um, evoking.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
That's God who is just in bliss.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
Shiva Loka is like that.
G. N. DevySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a time when there used to be festivals, festival of India.
G. N. DevySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
where they brought some dance from Orissa, some dance from Bengal, some Garba from Gujarat, some Bhangra from Punjab, some Tamasha from Maharashtra, and they said, no, this is cultural discipline.
G. N. DevySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No.
G. N. DevySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Please remember that in India today, more than 60% of Indian habitats are urbanized, and those which are not technically urbanized are mentally urbanized.
Johnny RocketHOST
And for the Indian community, there's a Raksha Bandhan Mahotsav at Sri Ram Krishnamandir in Austral from 7pm.
Johnny RocketHOST
and a big Garba night with Kurtidan Gadvi at Whitlam Leisure Centre in Liverpool from 7.30pm. That's your Friday sorted, Sydney.
Johnny RocketHOST
A mostly sunny top of 20 in town, one crash to watch at Pimble on Ryde Road, the trains are running like an absolute dream, and tonight the city is putting on the Sydney Marathon opening ceremony with bag raiders and fireworks at the Opera House.
Johnny RocketHOST
Panthers vs Bulldogs at Combank, Sea Eagles vs Dragons at Brookie, Carl Baron, Ursula Carlson, The Lion King, Candlelight Pink Floyd, Octave One, Go West, The Cat Empire and The Symphony.
Johnny RocketHOST
Wear it purple morning teas, a 135th birthday party at the Pump House and a Garba night in Liverpool.
Johnny RocketHOST
Be kind to yourself.
Johnny RocketHOST
Be kind to each other.
Gina GardnerHOST
Yeah.
Tania AndersonGUEST
And he would say things like, "Oh, my mother's down in Sardinia." I'm thinking, "Oh, that sounds pretty cool." And then I, I was complaining about my alcoholic [laughs] stepfather and he, and he, he said, "Oh, we love, we love, my, my, uh, two sisters and my brother love our stepfather." He's talking about Richard Burton.
Tania AndersonGUEST
[laughs]
Gina GardnerHOST
[laughs]
11 MINS LATER
Tania AndersonGUEST
It, it's, it's pretty, pretty hot, you know.
Tania AndersonGUEST
And because I was working for the chief, I got plugged into the elite.
Tania AndersonGUEST
So he, you know, his brother Garba had, had invited me to go to, um, the sultan- sultan's daughter's wedding, but the, the bride was nowhere to be seen.
Tania AndersonGUEST
But in the palace and things like that.
Ichha SharmaHOST
In other major news, five men convicted in the Vadodara Navratri gang rape case could face the harshest punishment available under law.
Ichha SharmaHOST
The Gujarat government today urged a POCSO court in Vadodara to sentence the men to death or to imprisonment for the remainder of their natural lives, citing the age of the minor victim who was gang-raped on 4th of October in 2024 when she was out with a male friend after a Garba night.
Ichha SharmaHOST
The special POCSO court, which convicted all five accused on 20th of August after a trial that lasted almost 22 months, heard arguments on sentencing today.
Ichha SharmaHOST
Meanwhile, on Gurugram's famed Golf Course Road, where apartments can sell for as much as 85 crore rupees and a square foot can command more than 85,000 rupees, even the city's wealthiest enclave could not escape this monsoon's flooding.