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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Chain of Discoveries on a Wednesday evening



Of a whim, on my drive home, I played an old favorite on youtube:

Mera Kuch Saaman:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlvXDGJAMT0

At the end of this song, was a small snippet of this song that I had heard and loved before, but not listened carefully:

Jeehale-e-miskeen makun ba ranjish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAPIzPnY3HE

http://antarman-antarman.blogspot.com/2006/11/jeehale-muskin-main-kun-baranjis.html

Looking fro the lyrics, I discovered that this song by Gulzar borrows the first few words from the below masterpiece by Amir Khusro

https://sufipoetry.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/zehaal-e-miskeen-amir-khusro/

Scrolling down, in the last link above, is a rendition by Ghulam Ali. Plus a little bit of his history in his own words. Turns out he is a student of Ustaad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. I didn't know!

Enjoy!