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Pop music: Record chiefs bet the next global hits will be rap monologues tinged with a Punjabi folk genre known as bhangra Published December 26, 1994 Los Angeles Times |AMITABH SHARMA | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEW DELHI — They come in all sorts of fancy packages, colors and catchy names. Many are imports. They're not the latest detergents to hit India, but in a way they, too, are products of its liberalized market and changing society. For anybody who thinks Indian music means the twanging sitar strings of Ravi Shankar or the booming tabla drums of Zakir Hussain, the new generation of popular singers here is as unnervingly shocking as Luciano Pavarotti doing the moonwalk. Check out these lyrics to one recent hit, "Stop That": My grandpa wears diapers, on his specs he has wipers I have played football on Mt. Everest, pushed a train with both hands I am a little kid 100 years old, too early to get married. The Gita it isn't, admittedly. But such rap monolog...