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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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The Three Ways That Songs Come About

Kafah came about because a melody came into my head first so the one way is that res does something and I want to incorporate that. Another way is that I want to say something about the world and I write the lyrics first and then and then do the arrangement later. A third way is that the melody itself arrives in my head and so the the melody for kafah became a song about writing about religious fundamentalism and my anger against people who think they own religion. That blood is the exact same shade of red and when we cry we all have the same taste of that same salt in our tears and we're the same.

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