‘Bandi Te Bardi O Yaar’| Khwaja Ghulam Farid (Lyrics + Translation)

After more than two years of endless scrounging YouTube like a madman, I was starting to get a feeling that this might just be the end of the tunnel. There you go, you've finally listened to almost every single one of his recorded performances, my brain was starting to tell me. And then I found …

The ‘Missing’ Temples of Mahabalipuram

Did you know that the south Indian city of Mahabalipuram is also called, though not by many as "The land of Seven Pagodas"?  Mahabalipuram on the Map of India   If the term "Pagoda" is not familiar to you, I'll give a small hint. The Konark Sun temple has the nickname 'Black Pagoda' while the Puri Jagannath …

Civil Services Mains– 2018 (QUESTION PAPER)

Hey Guys !!! Here are all the questions asked in Civil Services (Mains) Examination- 2018, conducted as per the below schedule. The post includes all the questions asked in GS - I, II, III, IV and the Essay Paper. ESSAY PAPER: UPSC Civil Services Mains Examination – 2018 SECTION – A alternative technologies for a …

‘Sanson Ki Mala Pe’ – NFAK (Lyrics + Translation + Discussion)

    Sanson Ki Mala Pe (literally: On the rosary of breath) is among the most popular songs of the legendary vocalist, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and was first played by Khan when he first visited India in 1979. Personally, this was the first song that I ever heard by NFAK and so this one is pretty close …

‘Ye Jo Halka Halka Suroor Hai’ – NFAK (Lyrics + Translation + Discussion)

I started my previous post with Jeff Buckley and I am going to do the exact same thing here again.   So, there is this 9-minute video on YouTube, an audio rather, of Jeff performing live at Sin-é, NY city in 1993. Nusrat had performed there a few days ago too and a guy in Nusrat's …