I am somewhat notorious for prevaricating when put on the spot, especially when asked to give my opinion on a given subject. The prevaricat...

The last two posts were devoted to an exploration of the Ghazal, a centuries old poetic form popular across the Indo-Persianate region, in...

This is the second part of a rather long post featuring recordings of Ghazals by mainstream ghazal-singers and Qawwals, offering a contras...

I spent the last month atop a 9000-foot mountain in the middle of nowhere, for all practical purposes cut off from the rest of the ...

کند ہم جنس با ہم جنس پرواز کبوتر با کبوتر، باز بہ باز Birds of a feather fly together Doves fly with doves, Eagles with eagles ...