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Saadgi To Hamari Zara Dekhiye: One Night's Promise, a Lifetime of Waiting (Saba Akbarabadi)
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Naina Moray: The Prayer Hidden in a Love Song
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Dil Pe Zakhm Khaate Hain — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Iqbal Safipuri & the Qawwali Behind Dhurandhar's Jaan Se Guzarte Hain
September 9, 2026 · 21 minKshitij and Burair trace Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's 1977 qawwali "Dil Pe Zakhm Khaate Hain" back to poet Iqbal Safipuri, go couplet by couplet through its Sufi double meaning, and follow it forward into Dhurandhar: The Revenge, where it…
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The Woman Who Wrote Her Own Name: Darshana Arjun Vijeta on Kavinaama
September 2, 2026 · 55 minRetired school principal turned author Darshana Arjun "Vijeta" joins Kshitij and Burair for a conversation that moves between poetry, memory, and the women history forgets. She talks about being called "Teacher Bitiya" at nine years old…
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Taj Mahal by Sahir Ludhianvi, Part 3: Does He Actually Hate the Monument?
August 28, 2026 · 15 minThe finale: the artisans who built the Taj Mahal couldn't light a lamp on their own family's graves. Kshitij and Burair close the poem, debate whether Sahir hates the monument or is just exploring it from an angle no one else had, and…
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Taj Mahal by Sahir Ludhianvi, Part 2: Whose Love Gets Remembered?
August 27, 2026 · 9 minSahir calls the Taj Mahal and its forts "old wounds" carrying the blood of common ancestors. Kshitij and Burair connect that same fury to "Aurat Ne Janam Diya Mardon Ko" from Sadhna (1958), and ask why only the powerful get to advertise…
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Taj Mahal by Sahir Ludhianvi, Part 1: A Poem Against a Monument
August 26, 2026 · 12 minKshitij and Burair open a three-part series on Sahir Ludhianvi's "Taj Mahal" — the 1945 nazm that turned Urdu poetry's most romantic landmark into a class critique. Part 1 covers Sahir's roots in the Progressive Writers' Movement and the…
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Ahmad Faraz's Suna Hai Log Use Aankh Bhar Ke Dekhte Hain — Explained via Game of Thrones & HIMYM
August 19, 2026 · 29 minTwenty-two couplets of hearsay about one impossibly magnetic beloved — moons that won't look away, deer that show up just to compare eyes. Burair takes Ahmad Faraz's ghazal to Kshitij couplet by couplet, and the explanations detour through…
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Rafta Rafta Woh Meri Hasti Ka Saman Ho Gaye — Mehdi Hassan's Ghazal, Explained
August 5, 2026 · 21 minTasleem Fazli's ghazal for Mehdi Hassan, sher by sher — a poem built entirely on three-step escalations, from jaan-e-jaanaan to the aap/tum/tū of its final couplet. Plus the true story of Fazli and his brother Nida Fazli, split across the…
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Mohabbat Karne Wale Kam Na Honge — Hafeez Hoshiarpuri | Kavinaama
July 29, 2026 · 26 minThe ghazal behind Arooj Aftab's Grammy-winning "Mohabbat" — written a century earlier by Hafeez Hoshiarpuri, and carried since by Mehdi Hassan, Farida Khanum, and Ali Sethi. Kshitij and Burair go sher by sher through Hoshiarpuri's most…
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Ae Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe Rona Aaya — Shakeel Badayuni Ki Ghazal
July 22, 2026 · 20 minA ghazal so loved that people now think of it as Begum Akhtar's, not Shakeel Badayuni's. Begum Akhtar made "Ae Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe Rona Aaya" hers — so completely that audiences would demand she sing it again, once five times in a…
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Mere Humnafas Mere Humnawa — The Ghazal Begum Akhtar Refused to Sing, Until He Died
July 15, 2026 · 30 minमिरे हम-नफ़स मिरे हम-नवा, मुझे दोस्त बन के दग़ा न दे — Shakeel Badayuni's "Mere Humnafas Mere Humnawa" is one of Urdu poetry's quietest, most devastating ghazals. Begum Akhtar refused to sing Shakeel's ghazals for almost 20 years after a…
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Do the names Mirza Ghalib, Shiv Kumar Batalvi, or Mir Taqi Mir stir your soul?
Kavinaama is the essential podcast for exploring the deep, rich culture of the Indian subcontinent through its timeless poetry and literature. Every weekly episode, hosts Kshitij and Burair dive into a specific topic, sharing the best classic and contemporary verses, along with the fascinating cultural anecdotes behind them.
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