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AALAM-E-ISHQ: A celebration of love poetry from the Sufi-Bhakti traditions
Across centuries of Indian devotional thought, love was the most potent metaphor for the human search for the divine. Poets of the Sufi and Bhakti traditions articulated longing, surrender, ecstasy, and union in verses that dissolved the boundaries between the sacred and the personal.
These verses had long been intertwined with music. Published anthologies, manuscripts, and pothis often prescribed specific raags for individual poems, and in many instances, even indicated song forms such as jhoolna or hori. Aalam-e-Ishq brought a curated exploration of this vast poetic and musical inheritance to the stage. Drawing on their deep grounding in Hindustani music and an abiding engagement with textual traditions, the artists presented a selection of compositions illustrating different perspectives on ishq or love. The performance included timeless verses such as Hazrat Amir Khusrau’s Jab yaar dekha nain bhar, dil ki gayi chinta utar, and Abdul Hadi ‘Kavish’’s Ghazab dhaa gayo tore naina Murari.
It was an evening that celebrated love in its many shades, brought to life through the enduring dialogue of Sufi-Bhakti poetry and Hindustani music.