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Busking tradition: One of the most civilised things in the world

I think tradition of busking is one of most civilised things in the world, says the author

This dignity of the European busker is absent in our parts and this is not the fault of the Indian musician. We have many flaws as a society but one thing we can be justifiably proud of is the quality of our music
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This dignity of the European busker is absent in our parts and this is not the fault of the Indian musician. We have many flaws as a society but one thing we can be justifiably proud of is the quality of our music

Aakar Patel
I was in Rome earlier this month on work. Actually a few miles outside Rome, on the road to Fiumicino airport, in a hotel surrounded by very little. It was a generic place, with large concrete parking lots and deserted like an American suburb. It was singularly unattractive and so each day I could get away I took the bus into Rome.
 
Once there, I walked around in desultory fashion to take in the city: the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the arches and, of course, the Palatine hill. Italy is full of young Bangladeshi men, similar looking: thin, dark