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EUREVISION ROUND TEN (last preliminary round): BHANGRA

We got so many submissions at the last second. I'm glad we extended the solicitation time. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. If given the choice between a remix and original song, I went with the remix. If an artist was cited twice, I chose the song I personally liked more. Some songs had ambiguous artists-- there was a 'music' credit as well as a 'singing' credit. I listed the artist as whoever was named in the former, not the latter, credit.

Here are your bhangra bop choices:

"Oh Ho Ho," by Sukhbir

"Ari Ari," by Bombay Rockers

"Bolo Tara Ra Ra," by Daler Mehndi

"Chandi Di Dabbi," by Jatinder Shah

"Forever," by Tegi Pannu feat. Prem Lata

"Chandigarh," by B21

"Boliyan," by Lehmber Hussainpuri

"Botlan Sharab Diya," by Bally Sagoo

"Mundian To Bach Ke (Beware Of The Boys)," by Panjabi MC

"Bhangra Knights vs Husan," by Bhangra Knights

The elaborate dance number ends Monday night.

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Entryist dads: the Lib Dems plot internal revolution

ONE is 46 years old, the other is a pensioner. One can dance Bhangra, the other is a ballroom guy. One is prime minister of Canada, the other is leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, who have just 12 MPs. Justin Trudeau and Sir Vince Cable are quite different, but the Lib Dem leader hopes to learn a trick or two from his Canadian counterpart.

Mr Trudeau’s Liberal Party jumped from third place to government in four years, after poaching votes from its rivals on left and right. What can it teach the Lib Dems? Without a long career stretching before him, Sir Vince, 75, has the freedom to shake up his party. One plan under discussion in Lib Dem circles would give non-members a vote on the party’s next leader, a system the Liberals used during Mr Trudeau’s selection. Another idea is to copy the Liberals in doing away with the requirement that the party leader must be an MP. (One non-MP mooted as a possible standard-bearer is Gina Miller, an anti-Brexit campaigner, although both she and the party deny this.) Sir Vince’s team has been in touch with one of Mr Trudeau’s advisers who helped to devise some of the party’s reforms.

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The diminished Lib Dems are hardly a “natural governing party”, as Canada’s Liberals are known. But for all their faults, they may still represent the best hope for Britain’s beleaguered moderates. The far-left and the unions have a tight grip on Labour, while the Conservatives’ fate is determined by MPs with a penchant for psychodrama and a small collection of Rotary Club members and tombola-spinners in the home counties. By contrast, the Lib Dems have low barriers to entry, making the party an appealing home for disaffected members of other parties.

Talk of a new political movement has been constant since the Brexit vote. But why bother launching your own party, asks one senior Lib Dem, when you could simply take over one that already exists? After all, the Liberal Democrats have 100,000 members, 98 seats in the House of Lords and, crucially, a toehold in Britain’s ruthless first-past-the-post electoral system, which new parties find all but impossible to crack.

Entryism presents dangers. But for the Lib Dems, scooping up disaffected Blairites from Labour and liberal Cameroons from the Tories is much less risky than it has been for Labour and the Conservatives to ally with hard-leftists and former UKIPpers. A Liberal Democrat party overrun by centrist entryists would look like, well, the Liberal Democrats. “They aren’t Militant, are they?” says one insider, referring to the Trotskyist group that infiltrated Labour in the 1970s and 80s.

Potential defectors may be wary of the Lib Dems. They have baggage. There is a reason why the party’s vote fell from 6.8m in 2010 to 2.4m in 2015. After five years in coalition with the Tories, people no longer liked them. Polls suggest they still don’t: the party limps along at about 10%.

Change could come from the top if MPs from other parties jumped ship. Labour’s anti-Semitism saga flared again this week after it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s leader, hosted an event in 2010 at which the actions of the Israeli government were likened to those of the Nazis. But despite disgust among his MPs about his handling of the row, there has been no wave of resignations. Nor has any Tory Remainer MP been persuaded to defect, even as the government’s handling of Brexit has gone from bad to worse.

Instead, Lib Dems are left hoping that an era of political polyamory will replace the 19th-century system of monogamous party politics. New movements and parties should team up with the Lib Dems, believes Tim Farron, a former leader. “They have a lot of generals and naff-all army,” he says. “We are your army.” Such post-party movements are starting to pop up. Cross-party support is growing for a referendum on the Brexit deal, a Lib Dem demand ever since the first referendum. But it would take Labour’s backing to go ahead. Unlike Canada’s Liberals, the Lib Dems are very far from wielding power by themselves. But if some of their ideas end up being enacted anyway, that may be good enough for them.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Entryist dads"

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Rahul Gandhi takes over as Congress chief, attacks Modi for indulging in 'medieval' politics

New Delhi: Marking a generational shift, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took over as the new Congress President, assuming the mantle of the country’s oldest political party from his mother Sonia Gandhi, and launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of “taking us back to the medieval times”.

The process of his election as the new Congress chief was completed after the Central Election Authority President Mullapally Ramachandran handed over the Certificate of Election to Rahul Gandhi in a ceremony at 24, Akbar Road, housing the party headquarters.

Sonia Gandhi, 70, who steered the party through turbulent times for 19 years, her daughter Priyanka Vadra, and son-in-law Robert Vadra and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined the top Congress leadership at the ceremony marked by loud celebrations as scores of Rahul Gandhi supporters danced to the beat of drums, raised slogans, burst firecrackers and distributed sweets outside the party office here.

The 47-year-old Gandhi scion’s formal takeover comes two days before the counting of votes for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections, the outcome of which could be a trendsetter for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. His main challenge remains the revamping of party organisation, apart from electoral battles in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

In his first speech as the Congress President, Rahul Gandhi launched an all-out attack against Modi and the BJP.

“Politics belongs to the people, but today politics is not being used for people. It is not being used to uplift people, but to crush them,” Rahul Gandhi said.

He said many of the countrymen were “disillusioned by politics of our time” as “today, politics is devoid of kindness and truth”.

“The Congress took India to the 21st Century, but the PM, today, is taking us back to the medieval times… We are now being compelled to imagine that businesses can be built without harmony that only one man himself is the voice of reason, and that expertise, experience and knowledge can be cast aside for personal glory,” Rahul Gandhi said.

“You have an example in front of you. Once fire breaks out it is difficult to douse it. That is what we are telling the people of BJP, that if you set the nation on fire it will be difficult to control. Today, the BJP has spread the fire of violence across the country.”

Sonia Gandhi in her speech said the Congress activists and leaders were not a terrified lot.

“We won’t bow down. Our struggle is for the country and we will continue fighting for it. We won’t give it up,” said Sonia Gandhi.

“Rahul is my son. So I do not think to praise him is appropriate for me. But I would say that since childhood he had to bear the brunt of violence. After joining politics he had to face blatant personal attacks that have made him a stronger person.”

Manmohan Singh said Rahul Gandhi was assuming the new responsibility amid “disturbing trends” as “there are dangers that the politics of fear will take over the politics of hope” in the country.

“Rahulji, we depend upon you to transform and sustain the politics of hope,” Manmohan Singh said, pointing out that the new Congress President had been trained for a long period and had already looked after many activities of the Congress for many years now.

“Rahulji brings in a new sense of dedication and commitment, a new sense of leadership with courage and humility.”

Manmohan Singh said it was “a unique day in the history of the Congress” with Sonia Gandhi handing over the reins of the party to her son.

He said during the last 19 years as the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi “provided a powerful leadership”.

“Now that Soniaji is handing over the reins of the party to Rahulji, we salute Soniaji for uniting the leadership, something that she has been doing for the last 19 years.”

Outside the 24, Akbar Road, Congress Headquarters, a group of colourfully dressed artistes played drums and danced to Punjabi bhangra tunes with party supporters, including men and women, shaking a leg or two and waving Rahul Gandhi’s pictures and Congress flags.

There were other groups of artists from Hyderabad and Rajasthan performing folk dances of their regions.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said the Congress was making a new resolve for the country. “Today we are taking a pledge for a new movement in India.

“Free from fear, for freedom of expression, for eliminating discriminations, for promoting brotherhood and saving democracy.”

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Two-tone vs bachata - TWO-TONE ADVANCES

Taqwacore vs Nigerian disco - TAQWACORE ADVANCES

Big band jazz vs minimal music - BIG BAND ADVANCES

Romanian house vs bhangra - BHANGRA ADVANCES

Horrorcore vs alt country - ALT COUNTRY ADVANCES

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