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Saain (God) and Saiyaan (lover) are fused through the anguish of separation in this beautifully rendered thumri based on Kabir’s poetry. "Singing Kabir in thumri is all about bringing the emptiness of shoonya into this very ornamented, very nakhreela, mannered space of the kothaa...." reflects Vidya Rao. Here, one yearns for the spiritual beloved at the pinnacle of earthly pleasure and beauty. The empty bed and the lonely path all point to the absence of the cruel beloved. Could this sharp pain of separation itself be worn as an ornament of remembrance?

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The song is beautifully sung in the thumri idiom by Vidya Rao, a performer of thumri-dadra and ghazal, who has studied under the legendary late Naina Devi, Shanti Hiranand and Girija Devi. She also sings songs of Sufi and bhakti poets, verses from Hindu and Buddhist texts and Islamic forms of naat, soz and nauha.

Vidya was advisor and friend to the Kabir Project in its early years from 2002-2009. She says, “Kabir may be stark and evoking the emptiness (shoonya) of the sky (gagan). But when I think of the way the sky is adorned with the sun, the moon, the rainbow… How can you say it is empty? Emptiness has this adornment. And the adornment is empty. To me they are true, when they are together.”

Contact Vidya Rao at vidyarao19@gmail.com

Song Credits:
Vocals: Vidya Rao
Tabla: Idries Khan
Sarangi: Bharat Bhushan Goswami

Translation: Vidya Rao

Video Credits:
Camera: Shabnam Virmani
Sound: Fireflys Post-Sound, Mumbai
Editing: Sharanya Gautam
Sub-Titling: Anisha Baid
Collection: The Kabir Project

Place of Recording: Sanskriti, New Delhi
Date of Recording: 04 November 2006