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Examples
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Often, family feuds are settled by giving away daughters or sisters (some as young as a few months old) to the enemy camp, in a custom called 'swara' or 'vani'.
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The customs like vinni and swara (exchange of women, mostly young girls, to settle disputes) and karo kari (honour killings) are considered a norm.
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Senator Mushahid Hussain said the basic problems facing Pakistani women were un-Islamic traditions like vani, swara, karo kari etc.
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These proposals include an end to cruel customs like vani, swara, karo kari, marriages to the Quran, violence against women, the sale and purchase of women, etc.
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They insisted that she includes akaara practice in saralivarse, jantivarse and in all other basic swara lessons in two octaves everyday.
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The composition was set in the pattern of the Pancharatna kritis with a charanam followed by swara-sahitya suite.
The Hindu - Home 2010
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The veteran displayed an array of vocal and percussive effects through short and long-breathed swara passages.
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Sriranjani was the first raga essayed well with pure raga bhavam for the rare kriti Parvatha Raja Kumari in Adi with well balanced swara in it.
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The charanam section starting with 'Achuthananda Govinda' was a speedier affair with vibrant swara korvais and arudis.
The Hindu - Home RUPA SRIKANTH 2010
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The nritta was crisp and correct in execution; the jathi before the mukthayi with liberal use of misram was especially enjoyable as was the mukthayi swara.
The Hindu - Home RUPA SRIKANTH 2010
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