"I've heard" "Pleasures, possessions given away" "That cruel one has turned his eyes away" "Given up the palace." "He, ash -smeared wanderer" "I burn in separation's fire, your altar" "You were saying" "I desired to know..." "Why am I at dawn awake, languid.." "...want to turn again to sleep?" "I Uravashi...." "Where do I seek the sleep of the Chaitra month..." "No, I need to know..." "Who are the Gandharvas?" "The telling will take long." "Ma!" "Leave me..." "Hear me, Arjun!" "Simple is the tale... a play of long ago, this lore" "These ghats, Arjun... these dwelling are the gardens of Indra" "You and I I and You" "Close your eyes There is no other" "Hear me, Arjun" "Fleeing..." "what exile will hide you?" "Ghats . "dwellings ..." "And this one curse that Indra shall cast my future" "How will you disguise your brutal limbs?" "I can't say" "Speak ;" "I take the vow of being neither man nor woman" "I take the vow of being neither man nor woman" "Contempt for the Apsara will create a eunuch for a year" "Not fearful, no, do not be, O Winsome one play and dance, O dark one!" "Sing tales, but, with feminine attention" "Leave a wound to cleave the heart" "You will turn thirteen." "This curse, even I'll bear" "Hear me, Arjun, Gandharvas are your magic" "Eyes, bearing rain clouds wet the dark wind" "Flashes the yellow cloth spreads the stain, I implore pull over a blanket, hide." "Outside, the drizzle hits me." "The kohl lines..." "smudged black clouds" "The kohl lines..." "smudged black clouds" "Rains!" "Open the sandalwood door, gently, the windows" "Tell me the tale, Kamala" "Where is the beginning in the Chandrakanta, Siddhi?" "Chapal had no need to turn beautiful..." "Later..." "Then the gaze rested on one more terrifying sight." "The hands slashed at the wrist holding a vicious dagger." "This wrist belonged to a young and fragile woman." "Perhaps as the hand fell, the bangle slipped off." "...and broke scattered on the ground" "So that no gaze would recognize her, she had to change her face." "Outside the twelve-doored place, she sat on the ghat and began to sing of separation." "Chapala had no need to turn beautiful..." "But..." "Delicate body" "Go and bring her, whose voice has filled my palace." "Wonderful!" "You leave me wordless!" "A woman like you wandering the night alone fills me with wonder" "I am the Gwalior Kathak dancer's daughter." "Chapala is my name." "My father was a great singer" "A man stirred my heart, but hurt by my words,he left." "It is in his search that I wander the nights." "Seems that the moon has slipped behind a cloudlet." "Fear not." "The mistake is your effort." "Don't think, don't imitate!" "Listen, someone walks into a jungle, deeper and deeper and sees in the distance a hut made of leaves." "But reaching there realises he is deceived." "In that space are such trees which curve to the ground... and mingle to seem from afar like a hut made of leaves." "Listen..." "He sees through those trees a glimmer of water flowing." "On both of the stream's edges are fragments of shade-bearing trees which seem to keep the water in shadow." "I hear Abdul Azim Khan Sahib stopped playing the sarangi?" "Wash it." "Wrap it in cloth" "Listen..." "Weave stitch wash cook..." "then you will realize thumri." "What a name your mothers have made the last hundred years!" " Sing again!" "" "Bestow your call on me any moment" "Your call on me bestow any moment" "I am not time past" "My dark one wanders abroad Rain haze my eyes" "Crying dark and day Kohl line a black cloud" "Bow curved brow." "Separation Comes to me in dark" "No path to be seen wherever, Eastern winds sway my mind" "The bird calls your name Rampratap, the lonely one" "Can she bear the pain?" "Parrot calls on terrace O Rama!" "Come, sing!" "My head desires Your body to embrace" "Again and again I worship My worshiper that sullen one!" "My beloved" "Why have you turned Your gaze away from me" "Look!" "At him making eyes at me" "O friend, what magic my beloved makes, O rama!" "If desires are unfulfilled, why would anyone pay money?" "But there are courtesies in this profession, too." "By taking the child's life whom are you threatening?" "Save your aging self - respect." "Hold your tongue!" "Certainly not!" "These are not slave quarters!" " Beware, Siddhi!" "" "It is appropriate that you Leave this house immediately." "How dare you presume to walk the path I walk!" "My head weighs heavy as a mountain." "The lone courtyard torments..." "Why did I go to the river for water, my friend" "Soon as I saw him I was no more my own." "What are my feelings?" "I myself do not understand." "It is my Guru's grace." "If I earn two rupees, one would be given to my Guru." "After my Guru's death, I took care of his wife" "She had relatives, but she considered me her son" "When I talk about those days my heart becomes heavy." "Siddhi..." "Siddhi..." "Above us, a lion's head could be perceived." "As the neck stretched, a camel's face materialised and in a swift moment took on an elephant's body." "Following, rifle in hand, a hunter." "But while aiming he spread out into smoke." "Siddhi..." "Siddhi..." "What are you seeking in the sky, Siddhi?" "Dark clouds are rising bound to some peak." "Mind wind on a swing swing me, I swing" "With the branch, the tree sways" "Mingling she from eternal sleep awakes!" "Ascending the terrace to the sleep of joy." "Stay away, away entire night with the other awake returning at dawn, what will you say?" "Playful one, born a liar who would trust sweet lies" "Stay away, away" "During the festival of the swing there was one kept at Raja Munshi Madhav Lal's" "All the singing women would attend." "Jagan Bai, Shukar Bai husna bai, Vidyadhari Bai, Rajeshwari bai- my aunt" "During the festival of the swing people would gather... and sing one after the other" "Someone would take a taan and someone the words look at him making eyes at me" "O friend, what magic my beloved makes" "This is the kind of thing we would sing." "Someone from the swing, someone from the other end" "Everyone would be wearing peach-coloured sarees." "Aturban was presented to Bismallah Khan's uncle" "What a perfect accompanist!" "Vazrif Jan, Karnal Baksh were out of this world." "When Shukar Bai found her voice it was another plane." "So much force, so wonderful." "There was also big Moti Bai" "At the time these people were quite young" "They all sang together." "Before the monsoon." "I was a mere child then." "Very young." "At break of day my love returned..." "I came awake at his touch" "A hundred and fifty years ago, amongst my ancestors" "Rati bai earned great fame Then Maina Bai" "Her daughter, Rajeshwari bai was my mother's sister" "My mother died young" "Today, our music has spread everywhere" "But earlier, the listeners were something else." "Nowadays, if those who sing into microphones were to try to sing in.." "The old way, their heads will explode" "In the singing today, there is less alap, more taans." "They race their throats to grab the stars of paradise." "The rasa has become less" "She, who has seen all the palaces of India, seen all the gathering, received immense fame and money she is a mother to me" "My aunt Rajeshwari Devi lost her temper at me" "She threw me out of her home" "The clothes I had on my body-that's all" "I was invited to a concert, but how could I go?" "It is to Vidhyadhri that I went." "She said I am there!" "Now these weak stone staircases, attached... to these iron railings half-fallen twisted, hanging" "A small room, a stove, kitchen things" "The Gandharvas are eternal" "We follow the rules of Gandharva marriage" "As far as possible spending a life with one man was considered ideal." "In here there is an entire world." "Search and you may even find a remedy for a cold" "These rough village paths are not for you." "What can I do for you?" "I have left everything and lie here." "Once I entertained... the world, now only two syllables(Ra-Ma) I sing" "Our time, no matter how hard you seek, can never be found" "Gohar Jan, Nanua, Bachhua, Acchan Bai, my friend..." "They have all gone." "The time has gone." "The old singing was indeed short but there was pain" "Today sing-play the whole night, but all that you get is confusion" "Where is the tanpura?" "There is no power." "A boy has taken it out for a day or two" "Earlier in Banaras under an Ustad, it took twelve to.." "...thirteen years of study." "Which Ustad exists today who make the sound of his first note tear your head?" "Why from me, have you turned your gaze away.." "Love,how do I come?" "Love, how do I return?"