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Episode 11: Today we touch on topics of pain and healing, and how art and poetry has been a companion in those times.
The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- R. L Stevenson : Child’s Garden of Verses
We discuss stories and storytelling and how good stories are a portal to eternal camaraderie and self-knowledge. We linger on some stories like the story of Sohni Mahiwal through the popular Coke Studio rendition of Par Chanaa De, which captures that fateful night of Sohni's conversation with the pot in which she is trying to cross the Chenab to meet Mahiwal, and a fictional story that Manto tells Ghalib in the afterworld.
" Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
In this episode we talk about Johnny Cash's immortal cover, "Hurt"; its importance to the classic Marvel movie, "Logan", and some context to the cover done by Cash in the twilight of his career.
We also dwell on pain, life, and what makes us happy, our ego and steps we could take against egotism.
Johny Cash's Hurt https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. - Rumi
In this episode, we talk about the purpose of art and the consequences of it.
Should art be for art's sake? Or should art be for life's sake?We recite Bulleh Shah's popular Kafi as well and then leave you with Abdullah Qureshi's beautiful version of it - https://soundcloud.com/abdulmunimqadri/sufi-medley-abdullah-qureshi
Music credits:
- Abdullah Qureshi
- Tajdar Junaid
In this episode, we
- talk about Sherries and Speakeasies and our personal experiences with both.
- give an introduction to Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his book Madhushala, reciting a few hand-picked poems from it to give you the feels.
- recite When you are old by W.B. Yeats, who was the focus of Bachchan's PhD at Cambridge.
Music credits:
- Tajdar Junaid - Aisle
- Tajdar Junaid - What color is your raindrop
- Other royalty-free music from https://filmmusic.io/
The Pilot.
Audio Credits:
Aisle - Tajdar Junaid
Royalty-free music https://filmmusic.io/