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Content Provider | IGNCA - Begum Akhtar Portal |
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Owner | Saleem Kidwai |
Description | Agha Shahid Ali, a scholar known for his adaptation of the structure of ghazal to English poetry was one of Begum Akhtar’s many admirers. His conversations with Amitav Ghosh and Saleem Kidwai revealed that he was in love with her. In his apartment, Ghosh writes, “were shrines of people he loved including his parents, James Merrill and Begum Akhtar.” A deep reverence for her impacted his entire being. He priced not just her music but also the wordplay, wit & nakhra she brought to the ghazal. Shahid had stories of Begum in sharpness of her repartee. He had internalized these aspects, so far as to respond to a security guard at Barcelona Airport, on her asking if he was carrying anything which could hurt other passengers and he said “Only my heart.”; Ghosh points out that not only nakhra, but the “idea that sorrow has no finer mask than a studied lightness of manner” bound the two in an extricable relationship. Begum Akhtar’s grief-stricken image at her mother’s death followed Shahid till the end when, in his untimely farewell to the world ‘I Dream I Am At The Ghat Of The Only World’, he wrote: A night of ghazals comes to an end. The singer departs through her chosen mirror, her one diamond cut on her countless necks. I, as ever, linger. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Barcelona Airport Agha Shahid Ali English Poetry Khayal Saleem Kidwai Indian Classical Music James Merrill Thumri Ghazal Begum Akhtar Amitav Ghosh |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |
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