raffish: rakish
(crude, vulgar)
raga: (Sanskrit, a color) ancient traditional melodic patterns and motifs in Indian music that ‘color’ the mind of the listener. The musician will improvise on this pattern of notes. There are hundreds of ragas and probably 30 basic ones.
The term raga is mentioned in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.
I once took out the “best” of Ravi Shankar’s music. The melodic raga’s were a gentle surprise; so different from our European scales, with many 1/2 tones. It was a mesmerizing journey of infinite variety, taking the mind on a gentle, subtle voyage.
rain forest: a tropical woodland with an annual rainfall of 100 inches.
Astounding…over 8 feet of rain.
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