Cross the Borders
Whoa... Just realized that it has been over 20 months since last I was here, A Lot of has happened since then, moved to California, started a new job, the family visited from India, went to India, and lately in the shelter in place. Last week I was having a conversation with my coworker Shakeel who hails from Pakistan, post our work talks, we started having conversations related to situations in South Asia; that conversation took a nice turn when we started talking about Music. During the conversation, I realized what is the next topic of the blog would be. Today I will be putting together pieces where the Bollywood has been inspired by cross borders. In the piece dream sequences I had briefly mentioned Khurshid Anwar who was a very highly respected Music director in Pre Partition India, and continued to be in India till 1952 and then moved to Pakistan where he gained huge popularity. He is also credited to revive Noor Jehan’s career in Pakistan. Noo...