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Amritsar Calling: Let us marry the old with the new in the Holy City

Amritsar Calling: Let us marry the old with the new in the Holy City

Enough has already happened considering that the harmonium, for one, is such a basic bajaa adopted from European traditions and brought in by the British in the 19th century, which has become an anchor instrument in the gurudwara and mandir musicology forgetting the richer nodes of our better native strings. The world in this quaint […]Read More

Amritsar Calling: The expletive repository of the nation

Amritsar Calling: The expletive repository of the nation

The folks in Amritsar are accustomed to a more colourful rendition of the mother tongue, way more deep-rooted to the expletive traditions than we refugees. My father once told me that the most derogatory term in Kabul was Pisreh khanzeerast. Thus, calling someone the son of a pig in Farsi was sacrilegious to the hilt. […]Read More

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