Pukhtana’s Blog

Have been meaning to share the following info about Sharon Osser a singer of indian origin that sings songs in pashto as well and she has kindly provided some background info on how she came about to sing pashto songs and i have added her songs in audio for you to listen to. You can find videos of both her and homayun sahebzai on Youtube too.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask them, and hopefully Sharon will only be too pleased to respond.

“I am originaly from bombay , india. I used to sing in various bollywood music groups like johnny lever music group and with falguni pathak.
I have shifted to sweden and have been performing at various indian and pakistani shows in sweden, denmark, norway and london. I was approached by Homayun Sahebzai if I can sing a few hindi songs for his first c- album. I agreed and then when we started rehearsing, he asked me to sing a few pashto lines from a song. Thats how I started singing inpashto. It took a lot of practice and hard work till we got together our cd called KRESHMA.
Here is the link for KRESHMA - http://www.afghanhits.com/new/song_page2.php?show_songs=HOM01&mohim=Download%0A
 
The music is composed by the famouse Jawid Sharif. This is my first pashto recording. After some of the songs were shown on Ariana Tv, I received another offer to record a remix album in pashto.
My solo album - STA DE MEHFIL , recorded in the U.K. will be released later this year. Some of the songs are at my youtube account  - http://www.youtube.com/user/shirinjaan
 
I like the songs by Gulnar Begum, Aqal meena, Shakeela Naz, Hangama,Naghma, Ustad Mahwash. There are so many singers so please excuse me if I forgot to name any. I love the voice of Heydaytullah. He sounds so much like Mohammad Rafi. Khyal Mohammad, Farhad Darya and Ahmad Zahirs songs are very impressive. I am trying to get my pashto pronounciation as correct as possible. Hope the pashto speaking audience appreciates my singing.
 
Thanking you
 
sharon”

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I just thought this couplet from Hamza  baba deserved its own post especially in light of recent events in Peshawar where the ANP has won :

Wapas jhurei ooda bakht da pukhtu raghaley dei, da shoq chi pa zalmo kei da pukhtu raghaley dei.

Perhaps the sleeping fate of  Pukhtu has awoken, for there is once again a passion for pukhtu amongst the youth.

 I might be a late bloomer, but i have just tonight picked up a book* about Hamza baba and i think im totally in love with his poetry!! Here is some of his poems i have just managed to read from the very poor and tiny pashto text that for a beginner is just about legible, though the book is more about his whole life and just a few poems quoted here and there.

 [* Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari : life and works by Prof. Dr Qabil Khan]

Ma kooza warta lemah kra, zema sar ne teyteida, shayid chi pe ulfat kei hum afghan patey kedam.
I lowered my gaze, but did not bow my head, perhaps even in love i was going to stay an Afghan (Pukhtun). 

Talah da newar asman ta lara, ma chi da sta husan da newar sara talelah!
The pan of the sun (in which it is being weighed) went up to the sky, when i weighed your beauty against it. 

Wai aghyar chi da douzakh jaba da, zeba janaat ta da pukhtu sara zem!
They call it the language of hell, but i shall enter paradise with my Pashto!

La pe afqa da pukhtunkhwa hum zaleydaley na yum, ze agha newar yum da afaqa chi rakhataley na yum.
I have not yet shown on the horizon of Pukhtunkhwa, i am that universal sun which has not risen.

Chi shepei kala rah shewama shi, pe dei wakht zema pe zre  kei shur paida shi
chi rana la dunya lara shi rukhsat shi, de shair da zre dunya ta rana shi.
In the dead of the night when the deep silence reigns, a loud noise rises up in my heart;
when light departs the world and darkness falls,  light comes to the inner world of the poet.

Ma wei chi de odu koum ba pe zema chaghu weekh shi, malomah shewa ma ghag karei wu khubulu ta pe khub kei.
I though i would wake up this sleeping nation with my calls, i found that i have been calling a sleepy people in dream.

Bal yaad ba sta da yaad depasa kala rashi mata, da yow da aks da pasa na wi bal pa aeena kei.
Except for that thought of you, how can another come to my mind, when there can be no reflection in a mirror atop the one that is already there.

Chi jewand gran dei ka asan dei khabar na yum, khu takal da asani ye la mushkil kai.
Whether life is difficult or notm i don’t really know, it is only further compounded by the urges of comforts.

Following are pashto translations by Hamza Baba of Allama Iqbals poems from  his book javednama, translated from urdu to pashto.

Da chi waim da bal jahan bayan dei, rakuz shewei da kitab da bal asman dei.
That i say is a story of another world, a book descended from another sky. 

Hungama warkygi zema na dei jahan ta, nawei rang warkeygi dei zemakei asman ta
bal Adam zema da khawrei na paidakeygi, marghei warkeygi  da ghulam da sauda ow zan ta.
Give excitement to the world from me, paint anew the earth and sky,
create another adam from my clay, kill this slave of profit and loss.

New once a week, (EVERY SUNDAY), one hour Pashto Programme on the radio, broadcast from East London, listen live at 7pm -8pm (GMT, British time) on:

http://www.nusoundradio.com/nusound.m3u   or from the UK on 92.0 FM.

Presented by Abdul Shakoor Afghani a member of the Pashtoon Welfare Association based in East London, Ilford.

So far just playing music and callers calling in.

Phone number to call the station:  020 8472 9292  or from abroad  0044 208 472 9292.

Enjoy, and lets hope it grows inshAllah!

Sometimes a Muslim poet, an Imam from many centuries ago can describe feelings of modern day humans, no wonder he, Imam Jalaluddin Rumi is one of the most popular read poets in the USA and the world over, despite belonging to the misunderstood religion of Islam.

Spiritual joys come only from solitude
So the wise choose the bottom of a well,
For the darkness down there beats
The darkness up here.
He who follows at the heels of the world
Never saves his head.

- Imam Rumi

Some pictures i took recently with my DSLR, whilst on a shopping trip. Love the colous of the gas station and the blue tones in the apartment building (last picture). 

Here follows a big statement……..

Closure is a very good thing.

Something one must try and accomplish in certain matters in ones life and therefore not let it affect proceeding events in ones life.

*breathes a very huge sigh of relief*

After an absence of almost 3 months i think i’m going to start blogging again inshallah - yipee!

I think my writer’s block is over and i shall be blah blah blahing about many things soon inshAllah.

i feel like copying Zakka and just saying lots of controversial stuff , we shall see.