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...

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

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...

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

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

Background  The Trump and Biden debate is reminding me of another yesteryear debate that was crucial.  In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was a rela...

For centuries writers and philosophers have written about Good and Evil.  The topic is as young today as it was in the Vedic times, during t...

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...

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...

Today I came across some unusal tappas sung by Ghulam Ali ... I am writing this as I listen to them.  'Tappa' is believed to be orig...