Understanding a Street Musician's Life

Pashupatinath and Boudhanath

The writer refers to the street food he had in Kathmandu.

Flutes

<p>Bansuri, Been, Shehnai, Murali, Venu</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It makes it difficult for the narrator to tear themselves away from the square.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The flute player makes sales in an offhanded way, as if it were incidental to his playing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The narrator believes that hearing any type of flute draws them into the commonality of all mankind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The narrator is surprised by the emotional impact of familiar bansuri phrases, which they had not noticed before.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The narrator sees flute music as closest to the human voice in its phrases and sentences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The motive force of flute music is living breath, requiring pauses to breathe before continuing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Baudhnath Stupa</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A bar of marzipan, a corn-on-the-cob, love story comics, Reader’s Digest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Coca Cola and an orange drink</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bus and train to Patna, sail up the Ganges past Benaras to Allahabad, then up the Yamuna past Agra to Delhi</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bamboo flutes: crossflutes and recorders</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Slowly, meditatively, without excessive display</p> Signup and view all the answers