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My best concert: The Mars Volta (2023)

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  On May 30 of this year, the Texan-Puerto Rican band The Mars Volta performed in Chile, at the Movistar Arena, for the first time alone. In 2010 he had presented himself with another musical project with Latin roots: Rage Against the Machine. The Mars volta are a band composed of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedrix Bixler-Zavala, eclectic and hermetic by nature, difficult to classify into a single genre, aesthetic trend or particular style. Their songs and albums deal with cryptic, paranormal and psychedelic themes. They have become famous as a "cursed band" for having composed songs with a Ouija board brought from Jerusalem, translating poems from the Aramaic that the artifact contained and including them in their songs. This invoked spirit, called Goliath, is blamed for the death of his prodigious drummer a few years later, the suspension of multiple concerts due to strange electrical failures, the fall of the lighting scaffolding at a show, among other events that are difficu

India, an ancient culture

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 India I would like to visit India. One of the most populous countries in the world with 1,428 million inhabitants, its capital, Mumbai, is the fifth most inhabited city in the world. It has an ancient culture, diversity of philosophy, religion, food and fascinating architecture. The Persian, Arab and Turkish invasions fed the way of interacting with others and with themselves, but this was only the additive of a culture born in the second century BC. I would like to learn Hindi, and due to that, read the famous Rig-Vedas, philosophy and religions mythology like Buddhism, Hinduism; get to know about musicology, and a lot of its rich modern literature and cinema, like the movie "Alam Ara" or the afforisms "The Harvest of the Fruit" by Rabindranath Tagore; also the dances , its meaning in religion, and the link with music that have always amazed me. I would like to study some postgraduate in Literature and Music at the University of Delhi, and would be delighted to st