Tum Ek Gorakh Dhandha Ho: The Paradox of God in Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Greatest Qawwali
An old favorite, revisited. Kshitij and Burair sit with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Tum Ek Gorakh Dhandha Ho" —a qawwali built around one impossible line: "ho bhi nahi aur har ja ho," you are nowhere, and yet everywhere.The conversation moves through the story of Adam, the martyrdom of the Sufi mystic Mansur al-Hallaj, and theevents of Karbala, using each to get closer to what the poem is really asking about the nature of God, presence,and absence. Whether this is your first time hearing the song or your hundredth, this episode is a way back intoit.Part of the Kavinaama series, where we sit with…
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