Airing his thirty laundry
India, Sept. 21 -- There is something profoundly moving about an Indian ascetic who has held his right arm raised for years, in devotion to Shiva and as a call for world peace.
For over 50 years, Amar Bharati, 75, has kept his arm aloft in an act of spiritual defiance. The man has now inspired one of the most intriguing tracks on Jeff Tweedy's forthcoming triple album, Twilight Override, due for release on September 26.
"He put it up in 1973 and has lived his life that way ever since. I'm moved by Bharati's protest," Tweedy writes on his Substack. The song Amar Bharati sits on the third disc of this ambitious 30-track opus.
When one speaks of overrides, Tweedy said, in a recent New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Amanda Petrusich, "What am...
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