Small things

Vande Mataram is the national song of India. It was composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in a mixture of Bengali and Sanskrit. Vande Matara...

I was listening and meditating upon this beautiful ghazal by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, beautifully composed by Mehdi Hassan. It is one of my favorite...

One of my favorite Kabir's poem I call "Dulhani." In this beautiful poem, Kabir envisions himself as the bride and the univers...

Pour love in your heart, like the rain pours on the land today. As I am working on a Meerabai song I am doing research on the different vari...

I have been singing this shabad for over 30 years; I composed it when I was a teenager. It comes from a fairly long poem of 55 couplets, lyr...

Yesterday, we lost an amazing kirtaniya, Prof. Kartar Singh ji who passed away at the age of 94 years.  He was recently handed over the Padm...

Deh Shiva Bar Mohe Eha (ਦੇਹ ਸ਼ਿਵਾ ਬਰ ਮੋਹੇ ਈਹੇ) is a popular hymn by Guru Gobind Singh, taken from Chandi Charitar Ukati Bilas composition of...

"Ekla Chalo Re" is a Bengali poem and song written by Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel laureate from India. The song "Ekla Chalo ...

Vaishnava Jana To is a Hindu bhajan, written in the 15th century by the poet Narsinh Mehta in the Gujarati language. The poem speaks about ...

In the beginning of Shakespeare's Macbeth, (Act one, Scene one, line 12), the witches say, “Fair is foul and foul is fair.” Good and evi...