It's my rendition of the gorgeous Rafi song

Man re tu kaahe na dheer dhare

I had recorded this almost a year ago and it came up today while cleaning up my phone. It's a piece that brings to the fore a gamut of emotions everytime I sing/play this. 

Tasveer

The Lata Mangeshkar-Madan Mohan combination has always reached the most obscure corners of my heart. Here's one of my favourite ditties of the two

Lag ja gale: Madan Mohan

A phone clearing session threw up this one. My naana (maternal grandfather), like all grandfathers, adores the hell out of his grandkids. Being the only girl in the entire family has helped my cause a little more I think. The bias is quite blatant on most occasions. There are times when he pampers himself by making me sit in his music room and posing demands of old ditties. Some years ago, when I had met him, he adjusted the ivory beads and taut strings of an old tanpura, began playing it and made me sing this Gulzar piece. A buraucrat in the day and an Urdu poet by evening, I have seen him go into a reverie with this piece of poetry. He's bedridden these days and I haven't seen him in a bit, but this remains our wonderful memory together. Of course, dad surreptitiously recorded it. Till, next time...  

Suanshu Khurana