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Tarka may refer to:
- Tarka, also Chaunk, a common word used in Indo-Pak cuisine to describe the word seasoning
- Tarka, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Benue State, Nigeria
- Tarka, Niger
- Tarka the Otter, a 1927 novel by Henry Williamson
- Tarka Line, a railway line in Devon, England
- Tarka Trail, a series of footpaths assembled from former railway lines
- Tarka (medication), a brand name for an antihypertensive medication
- Tarka (flute), also tharqa, a traditional flute of the Andes
- David Tarka (born 1983), Australian football player
- Taharqa, Nubian pharaoh of the twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
- Tarka (film), a 1988 Kannada language movie
- Taarka, an Oregonian quartet
- Tarka Cordell (1968–2008), British musician, writer and record producer
- The Tarka are an alien race in the video game Sword of the Stars.
The tarka ( Quechua, Aymara: tharqa) is an indigenous flute of the Andes. Usually made of wood, it has 6 finger holes, fipple on mouth end and free hole on distant end.
The tarka is a blockflute, like a recorder, but is comparatively shorter and quite angular in shape, requires greater breath, and has a darker, more penetrating sound.
The tarka has three variants: big, medium (tuned by fifth above) and small (tuned by octave above). Usually all three kinds of tarka are used together in a big ensemble, all playing the same melody on three voices at fixed intervals and accompanied by percussion instruments ( tinya, wankar). This traditional genre is called tarqueada.
The tarka is a unique flute of the Andes made by artisans from the western region of Bolivia and Peru Sierra region. Artisans create a delightful sounding instrument which is also a beautifully intricate piece of art rich in detail and (sometimes) color. Versions are also marketed from Bolivia and other South American regions.
The flute is made of natural wood and features a whistle-type mouthpiece with a small air hole. The tarka sound and scale are different from any other Andean flute. It sounds very primitive, soft and mellow with a rasp in the low range.
Artisans still build this instrument that their ancestors used in tribal ceremonies to mimic bird sounds.
Tarka is a 1989 Indian Kannada language suspense thriller film directed and produced by Sunil Kumar Desai inspired from Agatha Christie's play The Unexpected Guest, and starring Shankar Nag, Devaraj and Vanitha Vasu. The supporting cast features Shivaraj, Avinash, Shashidhar Bhat, Praveen and Sudhakar Pai. The film was unusual for, it had no fight and song sequences, unlike most films during the time.
At the 1988–89 Karnataka State Film Awards, the film won two awards; Best Screenplay (Sunil Kumar Desai) and Best Sound Recording (K. S. Krishnamurthy). The film is considered a landmark in parallel cinema of Karnataka. It was also a commercial success during the time of its release and completed a 100-day run in theatres. It was remade in Tamil in 1990, as Puriyaadha Pudhir and also in Malayalam.
Usage examples of "tarka".
CHAPTER II A FOREST BATTLE Tars Tarkas and I found no time for an exchange of experiences as we stood there before the great boulder surrounded by the corpses of our grotesque assailants, for from all directions down the broad valley was streaming a perfect torrent of terrifying creatures in response to the weird call of the strange figure far above us.
There were two men and four females in the party and their ornaments denoted them as members of different hordes, a fact which tended to puzzle me infinitely, since the various hordes of green men of Barsoom are eternally at deadly war with one another, and never, except on that single historic instance when the great Tars Tarkas of Thark gathered a hundred and fifty thousand green warriors from several hordes to march upon the doomed city of Zodanga to rescue Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, from the clutches of Than Kosis, had I seen green Martians of different hordes associated in other than mortal combat.
That I could scale them I knew full well, but Tars Tarkas, with his mighty bulk and enormous weight, would find it a task possibly quite beyond his prowess or his skill, for Martians are at best but poor climbers.
Our relentless pursuers were now close to us, so close that it seemed that it would be an utter impossibility for the Jeddak of Thark to reach the forest in advance of them, nor was there any considerable will in the efforts that Tars Tarkas made, for the green men of Barsoom do not relish flight, nor ever before had I seen one fleeing from death in whatsoever form it might have confronted him.
But as we strained and struggled about the tree into which Tars Tarkas was clambering with infinite difficulty, I suddenly caught a glimpse over the shoulder of my antagonist of the great swarm of pursuers that now were fairly upon me.
For a moment it was a tug of war between Tars Tarkas and a great plant man, who clung tenaciously to my breast, but presently I got the point of my long-sword beneath him and with a mighty thrust pierced his vitals.
Torn and bleeding from many cruel wounds, I lay panting upon the ground within the hollow of the tree, while Tars Tarkas defended the opening from the furious mob without.
Dropping to the floor once more, I detailed my discovery to Tars Tarkas, who suggested that I explore aloft as far as I could go in safety while he guarded the entrance against a possible attack.
But so far as I might know it was as good for our purpose as another, and so I returned to the tree for Tars Tarkas.
We had no means of making a light, and so groped our way slowly into the ever-increasing darkness, Tars Tarkas keeping in touch with one wall while I felt along the other, while, to prevent our wandering into diverging branches and becoming separated or lost in some intricate and labyrinthine maze, we clasped hands.
CHAPTER III THE CHAMBER OF MYSTERY For moments after that awful laugh had ceased reverberating through the rocky room, Tars Tarkas and I stood in tense and expectant silence.
At length Tars Tarkas laughed softly, after the manner of his strange kind when in the presence of the horrible or terrifying.
White ape or plant man, green Barsoomian or red man, whosoever it shall be that takes the last toll from us will know that it is costly in lives to wipe out John Carter, Prince of the House of Tardos Mors, and Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark, at the same time.
Think you, Tars Tarkas, that John Carter will fly at the first shriek of a cowardly foe who dare not come out into the open and face a good blade?
An instant later I drew my blade from the still heart of this great Barsoomian lion, and turning toward Tars Tarkas was surprised to see him facing a similar monster.