Column: The marriage of muse and music Habib Jalib with Mehdi Hasan Academy Award-winning composer A. R. Rahman

“I have grown up listening to Mehdi Hasan,” said the Academy Award-winning composer A. R. Rahman in the early years of his career. That was the time when the South Indian celebrity hardly understood Urdu. By sheer coincidence, the last public performance of the late legendary exponent of ghazal gayeki, Mehdi Hasan, was in Kerala. Every seat in the hall was occupied and there was hardly any space to walk because some of his diehard fans were sitting on the floor. The venue was in a

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