Malti Gilani and Quratulain Hyder have written a personal biography of the great singer Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. The book is both a tribute to the maestro, and a contribution to the history of Indian classical music. The authors trace Khan Sahib’s life from his birth in Kasur, now in Pakistan, to his final days in Hyderabad. Particularly rich in personal anecdotes and events is the period in the 1960s when Malti Gilani was Khan Sahib’s Shagird in Calcutta. ...
‘Why do we all find ourselves present in this particular context, in this particular place? How have these pictures assembled here in this jigsaw puzzle? Soon, something will happen, pieces will scatter and become part of a newer pattern … this time will pass…’ Partition, independence, democracy. Me Temples, Too tells the tale of the birth of two new nations experienced in the lives – and deaths – of its young citizens. Set in Lucknow of the 1940s, ...