Theme of the Day: Music
The day will include the following 2 talks, including a finale performance (plus free lunch):
Old Broken Strings
Rediscover the forgotten tradition of the Muslim bards of the Golden Temple.
Dr. Navtej Purewal is a lecturer at the University of Manchester specialising in gender issues and social inequality in South Asia and the Partition of Punjab.
?Unstruck Melody?
In-conversation with one of the last great rababis who sang at the Golden Temple, concluding with a finale performance.
Bhai Ghulam Muhammad Chand is an accomplished exponent of the rababi tradition who was born in Amritsar but is now based in Lahore, Pakistan.
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