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Akhtari Bai’s incomparable singing taught me how to understand a ghazal
An excerpt from ‘Akhtari Bai Couldn’t Live Without Love’, by Sheela Dhar, from ‘Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar’, edited by Yatindra Mishra. Begum Akhtar
To my ears, the sound of the Urdu language and the ghazal were the most enticing when I was in my teens, even though I could not understand most of the words. I had no idea that the couplet had a form, and that it was necessary to tune in to the conventions of the ghazal to truly appreciate it.
The Inimitable Saeeda Bano Lived Her Life Off The Beaten Track Book review
Off the Beaten Track is the last hurrah of Saeeda Bano who managed to live life on her own terms even in the midst of rampant male narcissism.
The inimitable Saeeda Bano was the first female news reader at All India Radio (AIR) since 1947. She was affectionately called Bibi.
Born in 1913 in Bhopal, Bibi blames Lucknow for some of the woes she was forced to face in life. The suffocation that women felt in Lucknow then was due to deep rooted conservative values that were followed blindly unlike her life in Bhopal.