Sunday, 14 June 2009

Monday, 8 June 2009

Smile in the Face of Adversity...

A video featuring an amazing and courageous toddler from West Virginia, who battled a rare brain tumor. "Big Ben" Bowen died on February 25,2005 at the young age of 2, but not without inspiring scores of people who came across his story in real life, and on the internet.


Friday, 5 June 2009

The Genius of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan


I have forgotten how much I love Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's music until I came across this video a while ago. I first heard his music in 2001, and fell in love with qawwali almost immediately. It did not matter that the language was (and is) alien to me...mesmerise me, it did. Music is universal, some say, and I did not understand the true meaning of that statement until I heard this man sing...