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Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
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Thank you for your recommendations. One more addition from my side: ‘The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter’ by Prof. Paul J. Steinhardt might complete the list.
Thank you for your recommendations. One more addition from my side: ‘The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter’ by Prof. Paul J. Steinhardt might complete the list.