Awadh’s last mirasins struggle to keep their musical heritage alive
Umrana Niyazi hunkers down in her small verandah with her paan daan (betel leaf box) and sings Chhap tilak sab cheeni… mohse naina milaike (You have taken away my identity, my beauty, and everything that was mine… just by locking eyes with me), written and composed by Sufi poet and mystic Hazrat Amir Khusrau in braj bhasha, a western Hindi […]