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Share your love
We used to sing the song Magic Penny when I was in primary school, "Love is something if you give it away, you end up having more [ . . . ] It's just like a magic penny Hold it tight and you won't have any Lend it, spen… -
Wanting you to feel this
Great synergy between Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the late Pakistani Sufi tenor who re-popularised Qawwali (South Asian Muslim devotional music with a 700 year tradition), and a tabla player. He died almost 12 years ago. Let… -
Zeb and Haniya
Friendly acquaintances of my brother, these young Lahore-based women compose and sing in their Pashto mother-tongue. That the cousin-duo, who hark from a landed family in Kohat, NWFP, should be singing in public, and s… -
Pakistan's struggle for an independent judiciary marked by a song
The issue of an independent judiciary remains unresolved. The duplicitous Pakistan People’s Party (PPP, founded by a Berkeley alumnus), which once promised to restore Iftikhar Chaudhry to the position of Supreme Court Ch… -
Happy music for the holidays!
Happy Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!Grace Kelly - Mika (Thank you Sabahat. The singer reminds me of Bilal and Shadi.)La Vie Boheme (from Rent) (Associate this with Adrienne)Frozen Orange Juice- Peter Sarstedt (Found this guy… -
Pakistani protest music: alive and well in times of turmoil
My brother's 5th Guardian article. Pls comment on the blog so that his editors recognise his value (and take him on full-time when he returns to the UK). http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/authors/issam_ahmed/index.html … -
Jealous
http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=k_QAPjtO2cA This Venezuelan born vagabond artist Devendra Banhart, named after an Indian mystic, is now dating Natalie Portman and getting her to do silly things in his music video. -
Will Smith's got Hindi talent
This guy is a genius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLMd9F49Uk -
How subsidising classical music seems directly related to the amount of interest in it
'Hey, it was great meeting you. You know, I was thinking how ironic it is that the Tories would support classical music with subsidies - it's antithetical to their free market ideology. And then I noticed a pattern among… -
The melody of Lahori communists
"Main Nay Kaha" [("I said this and I said that")] is a satirical poem by the famous leftist poet Habib Jalib called "Musheer" (Advisor). Jalib wrote it in response to a conversation he had with fellow poet Hafiz Jalandar…
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