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Ep 328: Kiran Ahluwalia Finds Our Aam Zameen

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Johnny Jahan: A Song of Political Resistance

I was inspired to write a song of political resistance a protest song by Husan Hadri who is a wonderful ludupoet. He had written this nazam called Tumde Kogay based on Faz Ahmed Faz is the mean humde kingay so he wrote this it's a political protest song against about Muslim marginalization in India and I couldn't get the poem out of my mind for some reason. So I started humming a tune to it and Razu was in the kitchen and he said oh that sounds nice so I composed it as a song then I got in touch with the San Hadri got his permission and so I recorded that song for this album

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