Tarana

Members

 

Farhan Abrol

Farhan Abrol is a sophomore from New Delhi, India. He loves playing the guitar, and would have probably majored in it if Princeton let him. When he's not playing the guitar, or working on Physics that he doesn’t understand, he loves singing for Tarana and Old NasSoul. He is also clearly in this group because of the sexy Shreshth, whose sex symbol status is alluring for most people in the group (for more, read Shreshth Singhal).

Avneesh Sarwate

Avneesh is a sophomore from the Jersey Shore. He is a guitarist and is currently the instrumental music director for Princeton Tarana. He is a fan of any genre of music with guitar, and many without. He is also a soccer enthusiast who plays any chance he gets.

Ashutosh Thakur

Ashutosh is a sophomore from Arizona who has been learning tabla in Bombay from Prafulla Athalye for past 11 years and has attended workshops with Ustad Zakir Hussain for past 9 years.

Shaina Watrous

Shaina, an alto, is a sophomore from Princeton Junction. She likes goats who wear sweaters.

Rik Sengupta

Rik is a senior from Calcutta, India. He sings, juggles and plays cricket, and takes occasional breaks by thinking about math. He is known as “the brown guy in penguin pants” and is singlehandedly responsible for most of the bad puns in circulation since 1468.

Sravanthi Kadali

Sravanthi is a sophomore from picturesque Dallas, Texas. She loves anything that has to do with film, writing, language and the State Fair of Texas, and she's also interested in psychology and economics. Sravanthi is a Trip Chair in Rocky College Council and on the board of the Princeton Student Entertainment Network, the campus filmmaking club. She joined Tarana hoping there'd be Indian food.

Kishan Shah

Kishan is a sophomore Bass(whatup!) from Cranford, New Jersey. He is the founding president of Tarana, and lives it breathes Tarana all the time. When he’s not thinking about Tarana (which is practically never) he likes to dabble in Politics and international affairs. He also loves to talk in Hindi and work in literally every brown people group on campus.

Mohit Manohar

Mohit grew up in Patna, Darjeeling and Delhi. He’s a junior studying Art History. He likes shooting stars, Small World Coffee and uninteresting people.

Lekha Kanchinadam

Lekha is a freshman, double bassist, and alto from wonderful Plainsboro, NJ. She plans on living in a cardboard box after graduating Princeton (hopefully) with a degree in English (hopefully). In her free time she plays for the Princeton University Orchestra and copy edits/writes for the Daily Princetonian.

Shreshth Singhal

Shreshth Singhal (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, she began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film appearances were minor, but by 1953, she had progressed to leading roles. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comedic effect in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and The Seven Year Itch.

In 1999, she was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In the years and decades following her death, Singhal has often been cited as a pop and cultural icon as well as an eminent American sex symbol.

Krishna Choudhary

The Tenor 1 Krishna grew up on the India-California border, and today enjoys the best of both worlds. A Hindustani classical enthusiast, you will frequently find him trying to sing Ghazals and songs meant for Sopranos in Frist Center, typically on Thursday and Saturday nights. A physics major, he is still on a relentless quest to find the exact trajectory of a wet ping pong ball when thrown across a table. We wish him best of luck.

Aashna Mehra

Aashna Mehra is a Tarana newbie from New Delhi, India. She is trained in Hindustani Classical music and is crazy obsessed with Sona Mohapatra. Besides singing alto in Tarana and annoying her hallmates with her loud singing, she enjoys sleeping, lazing around and eating cookies and cupcakes.

Prakhar Agarwal

Quick facts about Prakhar:

First memory? Seeing Lion King in theaters. It is the only movie he remembers crying during.
Favorite childhood TV show? Rugrats
Favorite TV show? Toss up between Monk and Big Bang Theory
Favorite food? Paneer. (Even though he had to throw it away multiple times because the pundit was vegetarian)
Favorite useless superpower? Exfoliating your skin on command
Favorite Taranasaurus? Kishan Shah, of course!

Kamna Gupta

Kamna is a Friends addict. She can quote you almost any scene and draws her major life lessons from that show. Aside from watching that show, Kamna enjoys all things French, wants to live in Europe, and hates Hersheys (it's just not chocolate). Expecting her life to be extremely exciting, when she was in elementary school she started writing an autobiography called "The Mysteries of Kamna". At this time the work remains unfinished but one day, when her life actually IS exciting, she will complete it. For now, she is content spending her days arranging music, singing in Tarana and Glee, playing piano, and dancing in Naacho, and spending her nights doing…well, pretty much the same thing.

Waqas Jafri

Waqas is a Junior from Lahore, Pakistan. When not tarana-ing, Nachoo-ing or cricket-ing, he does physics stuff. He loves to play the guitar, but also provides back up dance support when Kishan decides to unleash an RD classic.

Hamza Masood

Hamza is a Lahori senior who sings, plays guitar and holds a fondness for backup dancing. Like his vocal style, his appearance can change with the freedom of a chameleon. Over time he has resembled starts as diverse as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and an ironic portrayal of Ali Noor. Zeerak and Hamza jointly own a brightly colored cheap guitar, with an even brighter, cheaper strap.

Zeerak Ahmed

Zeerak is a junior from Lahore who sings and plays bass and guitar for Tarana. His claim to fame is running into Ali Hamza from Noori at a computer flea market. And not talking to him. Zeerak enjoys Pakistani pop music from a bygone era when mullets were fashionable, the men were clean-shaven and Imran Khan sensibly confined his exploits to cricket.