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Published: 17 August 2018

Last Updated: 17 August 2018

How time files! It was on August 16, 2017 that I started musing. One year! Of course, the number is not 365 because it is almost daily, not strictly daily. I can tell you in all honesty that I have not even scratched the upper layer of the surface of my collection to  muse about. Here is the first installment of the list of Rafi's MDs.It is from the Rafi book by Saleem-ul-Haq, which itself is based on the one by Pradhan and Menghani. (Sri Ganti had asked for it.)

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Folk Music 4

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Published: 28 November 2018

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The first color film of India

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Rafi 161

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Published: 11 October 2017

Last Updated: 11 October 2017

Just in case people think that use of English words in songs is a new phenomenon. I take you back all the way to the theater days. Her is a song written by the famous playwright Agha Hashr Kashmiri for the drama Silver King:

kyon chhipaayee laa de bhaee Khaalis whiskey
rang ho jis men Miss kee
aur lazzat ho jis men Kiss kee

which loosely translates as

O brother, bring it, why have you hidden pure whiskey
which has the color of a Miss
and which has the bliss of a kiss

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 Listen to Badrinath (1967)