Kanaday ki Riwayat – July 2024

After publishing the very informative Todi ki Riwayat in June 2019, Ustad Pervez Paras and Ayesha Nadir Ali have researched, authored and shared with us another beautiful compendium of analytic overviews of - and bandishes composed in - fifty-nine kinds of Kanada, beginning with the grand old and widely loved Darbari Kanada. The book cover, … Continue reading Kanaday ki Riwayat – July 2024

Aftab’s Fall 2024 Collection

Abhisarika Nayika Braving a Storm, 1760–1770.   مجھے راہِ سخن میں خوفِ گمراہی نہیں غالبعصائے خضرِ صحرائے سخن ہے خامہ بیدل کا in the road/path of poetry/speech, I have no fear of losing the road, Ghalib the pen of Bedil is the staff of a Khizr of the desert of poetry/speech --- After yet another revamping of … Continue reading Aftab’s Fall 2024 Collection

Aftab’s February 2022 Collection

With an updated website theme, here we have some excellent classical music from Aftab's collection, just in time for Valentine's Day! 🦚 🌷 💫 Altaf Hussain Khan - Kapar Gauri (Purvi Ang) http://sarangi.pk/archive/2022-february/altafhussainkhan_kapargauri_purviang.mp3 Arnab Chakraborty - Bilaskhani Todi http://sarangi.pk/archive/2022-february/arnabchakrabarty_bilaskhanitodi.mp3 Ata Hussain Khan - Ramkali http://sarangi.pk/archive/2022-february/atahussainkhan_ramkali.mp3 Azizuddin Mirza - Bibhas http://sarangi.pk/archive/2022-february/azizuddinmirza_bibhas.mp3 Bande Hussain Khan - Khambavati … Continue reading Aftab’s February 2022 Collection

British era canal on River Jhelum

Aftab’s Summer 2020 Collection

British era canal on River Jhelum constructed in the 1910s. Images courtesy of Salman Rashid and Saad Asad. ادب نے سونپی ہمیں سرمہ سائیِ حیرت زبانِ بستہ و چشمِ کشادہ رکھتے ہیں courtesy consigned/confided to us the collyrium-applying of amazement we keep a closed/'bound' tongue and an 'opened'/free eye --Ghalib -- Ali Akbar Khan - … Continue reading Aftab’s Summer 2020 Collection

Aftab’s Summer 2019 Collection

وحشت کہاں کہ بے خودی انشا کرے کوئی ہستی کو لفظِ معنیِ عنقا کرے کوئی where is the wildness/madness-- [such] that someone would write self-lessness?! [such that] someone would make 'existence' a word with the meaning of 'Anqa'? --Ghalib Hello Everyone! It has been two years since our last music update and this website is … Continue reading Aftab’s Summer 2019 Collection