The project splices bits of Jaar’s 2020 record Telas into inky soundscapes that twist around Sethi’s largely improvised riffs on Urdu poetry. Sethi’s approach is inspired in part by the Urdu concept of “bohl banana,” which he describes as “phrase-making....
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To pursue his biographical details a while, Iqbāl moved to Lahore, where he received further education and began to write poetry (in Urdu, since Persian was being phased out in the subcontinent). In 1905 he went to Europe and studied in Cambridge, Munich and taught in London. His doctorate...
The experience of perpetual loss and exile has been at the heart of Palestinian poetry for the past 75 years. In his resonant first book,Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha delves into the disorienting reality of being exiled, not just from a country, but ...
trying to forget rent and heartbreak and parents calling to check in. That’s exactly the feeling Caleb Femi taps into in his second poetry collection. Set during a secret house party in South London, the book is a tribute to those spaces where we escape the grind and, for a few hours...
Ghulam Ali Among these are Ghulam Ali – known as the Ghazal King. Ghazals are a form of Urdu poetry turned into music and Ghulam Ali was one of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan’s disciples and first learnt his vocation through ...
These are only a few of the emotions behind the poetry we hear expressed in individual psalms. Feelings and emotions are central to what it means to be human. We cannot escape them nor should we. Psalms invites us to take the emotions we feel and bring them before God. This book models...
Odisha. His inclination towards the Armed Forces grew and the foundation of his future military life was laid. Shy and sober, yet firm in his resolve, he joined the school in 2007 and lived in Yamuna House. He loved gardening and enjoyed painting, solving Sudoku, poetry and playing hockey....
Coming across a genuine shamama attar in the wild is like thumbing through a library of slim poetry books and pulling out a tome with the girth of a Ulysses. Shamama attars, which can take two months of continuous distilling and over 60 separate fragrant materials to make, are so bewilderin...
Urdu Corner, Urdu Poetry Kuch tu hawa bhi sard thi kuch tha tera khyal bhi Kuch tu hawa bhi sard thi kuch tha tera khyal bhi, Dil ko khushi kay sath sath hota raha malal bhi, Baat wo aadhi raat ki raat wo poray chand ki, Chand bhi ain chit ka uspy tera jamal bhi, Sab sy ...