Nothing pairs as lovingly with the oscillating speed and intensity of falling rain as Zakir Hussain’s hands on his tabla.

Date

15 June 2022

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On witnessing a simple death. As I’m about to take a sip, a tiny black insect flies into the glass of my hot chai and instantly dies. For I was supposed to make chai and sit on

Previously

Born on 13 June. Born on the 13th of June sometime in the 1980s at about 10 in the night at my mother’s home in a village somewhere in Saurashtra, Gujarat. Thus a