Author: Caribbean Hindustani

  • Ratiya Mein Dulaha Lyrics

    Ratiya Mein Dulaha Lyrics

    Ratiya Mein Dulaha Lyrics, Translation & Meaning: In Trinidad Bhojpuri tradition, the ‘Gaari’ (Std. Hindi ‘gaali’) songs were a customary picong between the bridegroom’s and bride’s family giving salacious insults meant to tease each other during a much lighter part of the wedding. Both sides hurled light hearted teasing comments in song against other. Here…

  • Gunga Ghana Lyrics Meaning in English & Hindi

    Gunga Ghana Lyrics Meaning in English & Hindi

    Gunga Ghana, Gunga Gana, Gunga Gaana or Goonga Gaana; however you spell it, everyone could agree that the song is catchy as f&$%! and has gained over 10 million views. The most views by an original chutney song.

  • Station Pe Gadi English Lyrics Translation

    Translation of Kanchan’s ‘Station Pe Gadi’ स्टेशन पे गाड़ी आवत है (The train is pulling into the station) दो जियरा मिल जावत है (Two souls are meeting) नैना से नैना लड़ गए जो (Those eyes that meet) सरमत मार गई (Caused some bashfulness) स्टेसन के मेले में (In the hustle and bustle of the station)…

  • Sham Sundar Lyrics

    Please see the Hindi/Bhojpuri lyrics below with a line by line English Translation: The folk tradition in Bhojpuri demonstrates the unit of a family, and usually the extended family, in a community and how they work together with the love they have for each other. Here is a popular Chutney song that expresses this concept.…

  • Sham Sundar By Pritivi Bheem

    Sham Sundar By Pritivi Bheem

  • Peter Manuel on Indo-Caribbean Music

    Peter Manuel is an ethnomusicologist at City University of New York, and an authority on the music of the Caribbean. His book East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture (Temple University Press, 2000) won the Caribbean Studies Association’s Best Book Award in 2001. This book is also the basis for…

  • Chahunga Main Tujhe Saanjh Savere Song Lyrics & English Translation

    Chahunga Main Tujhe Saanjh Savere Song Lyrics & English Translation

    चहुँगा मुख्य तुझ संग सांवरे गीत के बोल और अंग्रेजी अनुवाद