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Ashini Ganesalingam, Clip 2: Activities at the Ganesh Temple

Collection: Ashini Ganesalingam Oral History
Date: Time Period: 1994-2010; 2010-08-03; Interview recorded on August 3, 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg software. Dimension: Total running time: 00:01:56
Creator: Ashini Ganesalingam interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:16068 ganesalingam_ashini_clip2

Description: Ashini describes a variety of classes and activities available through the Ganesh Temple where she and her family have been devotees her whole life. She describes her participation in music classes in the Carnatic style. She sings and plays the veena, a stringed instrument. She explains how the temple's cultural programming often reaches out to the surrounding community in Flushing. Ashini considers being part of a religious community an important aspect of her life and anticipates staying involved as she grows older.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:16061

Creator : Ashini Ganesalingam interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1994-2010; 2010-08-03; Interview recorded on August 3, 2010

Summary/Description : Ashini describes a variety of classes and activities available through the Ganesh Temple where she and her family have been devotees her whole life. She describes her participation in music classes in the Carnatic style. She sings and plays the veena, a stringed instrument. She explains how the temple's cultural programming often reaches out to the surrounding community in Flushing. Ashini considers being part of a religious community an important aspect of her life and anticipates staying involved as she grows older.

Subject : Carnatic music; Hinduism; Hindu temples; Hindu Temple Society of North America, NY

Rights : Contact the Archives at Queens Library (718-990-0770) for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Flushing, New York, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg software.; Total running time: 00:01:56

Identifier : aql:16068 ganesalingam_ashini_clip2

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Carnatic music; Hinduism; Hindu temples; Hindu Temple Society of North America, NY

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Contact the Archives at Queens Library (718-990-0770) for research and reproduction requests.


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