The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
at the Library of Congress is a fantastic resourse for readings in the poets voices ranging across twenty odd Indian languages. These are sound clips of one of my foremost literary masters, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, reciting his very beautiful lines such as these:
aur bhii dukh haiN zamaane meN muhabbat ke sivaa raahateN aur bhii haiN vasl kii raahat ke sivaa mujh se pahlii sii muhabbat merii mahbuub na maaNg
There are other sorrows in this world, comforts other than love. Don't ask me, my love, for that love again.
Poetry, in particular Urdu poetry reaches completion when it lifts off from the page and becomes sound, becomes music. And this recordings project is a gold mine indeed for poetry across all Indian languages.
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CloMo
Think you'd love this. Listen to the third recording called Ek Kuri Jida Naam by Batalvi. Brilliantly read.
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