Tania Qureshi's video: Farida Khanum s Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo

SUPPORT ME TO REACH 2000 SUBSCRIBERS What is ‘sur’? In South Asian cultures, we use it all the time to describe a special goldenness in music, a coming-together (of tone, expression, pitch) that has a profound effect on the audience. To be ‘in sur’ is to be in touch, on point, in sync, but ineffably, so that the impact exceeds and overflows the units of musical measurement. Anyway, this is all just a way of saying: whatever ‘sur’ is, the great Farida Khanum Sahiba has it in spades, and a few days ago she decided to summon it (yunhi pehlu mein, as it were) for my edification. Please note the physical strain it imposes on her — as though she were performing a mime of love. Here it is — Farida Khanum’s ‘Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo’ ✨💖 Thank you for watching.