RIP Jagjit Singh

Your ghazals transported me to another world of poetry and yearning; where the pain in one’s eyes was able to take verbal form and heal the wounded heart. It was also a world in which the purity of love took on an unparalleled eloquence, making it my go-to destination when inexpressibly happy or gut-wrenchingly sad. It’s so strange this should have happened now; I had just been revisiting a lot of your classics over the past few weeks and finding a lot of peace in the honeyed silk of your voice and your songs.

Thank you for that gift, Jagjit-ji. May your soul find peace for all that you gave us.  Here are three lovely songs; a small sampling of the innumerable songs that are imprinted on my memory. 

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