My favourite in this second volume is the title track, Yeh Arzoo Thi (I Wished) by Haidar Ali ‘Atish‘ and sung by the giant Amanat Ali Khan. This collection features a selection by artists both popular ( Anup Jalota Jagjit Singh) as well as highly sophisticated ( Begum Akhtar Farida Khanum), men as well as women and, Pakistani as well as Indian. So what better time, then, to sink deep into world of ghazalein? And a country tearing itself apart in a nasty political and conspiratorial hothouse similar to the one unleashed by Herr Trumphf in USA. Our most vulnerable still not vaccinated. Where other countries have managed to start coming out the other end with high rates of vaccinations, we are stuck with a government that is ideological by reflex, corrupt by nature and incompetent in the extreme. Australia, which prides itself on being a practical, decent and level headed country has completely ballsed-up the response to Covid. What a hellish two years these last 24 months have been. Though it will be several weeks yet till we who are vaccinated will be set free to roam the streets at will. Here I am again, still in Victoria, and looking forward, again, to an easing of Covid lockdown restrictions this weekend. At that time the state where I live in Australia, Victoria, was emerging from several months of Covid lockdown. Nearly 12 months ago I posted a collection of ghazals.
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