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dhyanshiva · 11 months

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09.06 | Happy Birthday to the incredible Anoushka Shankar.

I was watching what I like to call the "fam jam" scene of E8 (apparently a bunch of it was cut out. rude) and paused here. Thought it was a sarod, got very excited. Decided to double check and not be overconfident. My excitement doubled.

This was well over a month ago when the piece had its genesis, seeds were planted, call it what you wish.

Cut to earlier this month. The Desi LGBT Fest is announced, I realise day 9's prompt fits far too well. Though I must stress, 'Rise' was not written for the fest in the least.

(make of that what you will, moderators, do with this post what you wish! thank you for organising this all the same!)

Only get to working on this a few days ago.

Become utterly drawn into the world of Hindustani Music and introspect a great deal while I'm at it.

And voila, this takes form.

Should you choose to read, however, please read through all the tags.

Take care and feel free to reach out!

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dhyanshiva · 2 months

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LIF 4 (DUOLOGY)

P1: gone long enough (Yusuf)

Category: M

Word Count: 2386

Date: 19.02.24

I am deliberately not putting this under the cut.

Firstly, and most importantly, to darling Tim:

This song will always and forevermore belong to Isla, you and Sam. I promise you, I haven't (and quite honestly) could not listen to the song as I wrote. You are so loved and cherished and we miss and love you endlessly.

Fly high, dear boy <3

Alright, so, what I mean by this is I have written this piece from a place of incandescent fury, grief and an unfathomable level of disbelief. Did I mention rage? Well, yes.

As it so happens, all the Manzoors' LIF pieces are connected. Similarly, Suhani and Veer's will be connected, as they're blood family.

There are many vigorous nods, as it were to the brilliant @zeesqueere 's equally (obviously) incredible series installment for Yusuf. It has also been linked in my piece. My endless gratitude remains.

So, I'll try to keep this brief. I wrote Faruq's on the date my friend and I got tickets to see Hozier back in March of 2023. I wrote Saba's piece with the core integration of Anoushka Shankar's "Land of Gold". Faruq's "Foreigner's God" and this album are intrinsically linked.

I'd in fact chosen "ATE" as Afroz's song in April of last year - there are memos for this series everywhere you can think of - but as things go, the execution has changed. Her companion installment will be the second chapter of this piece - I have no wish to further isolate these characters.

Incidentally and beautifully so, I had the privilege of seeing Anoushka Shankar in concert last month and her set had a Land Of Gold sweep (naturally) so my mind went to Saba's piece. And then, as you'll see in this playlist:

"Ishq" and "Secret Heart" were played in succession with an incredible transition/ bridge. Yet, it all slammed into place today morning, devastatingly so. I apologise for any incoherence in this piece but I cannot remedy it.

My parting message for this is:

Protect Trans Kids. Protect Trans Lives. Protect Queer Lives.

Much Love,

Dhyan x

#writing #cla$$#dealing with grief #Spotify

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