To observe the contribution of an Urdu Poet, Sufi Musician and Scholar of Mughal period Amir Khusro in the field of music and poetry, a two day programme ‘Khusro Ke Rang’ will be organized from Wednesday.
The two-day event will be held at Shaheed Bhavan. The event is being organized by Directorate of Swaraj Sansthan and Sadguru Kabir Memorial Service Research Organisation, Bhopal. On the first day of the event Sufi singers including Bindu Malini (Bangalore), Ankit Chadha (Delhi), Vedant Bharadwaj (Chennai) and Ajay Tipania (Ujjain) will give a performance.
Their performance will be based on the compositions and poetry of Amir Khusro. Amir Khusro better known as Amir Khusrow Dehlavi, was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar from the Indian subcontinent. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. He was a mystic and a spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. He wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi.
Khusrow is regarded as the father of qawwali (a devotional music form of the Sufis in the Indian subcontinent), and introduced the ghazal style of song into India, both of which still exist widely in India and Pakistan. Khusro was an expert in many styles of Persian poetry which were developed in medieval Persia, from Khaqani's qasidas to Nizami's khamsa. He used 11 metrical schemes with 35 distinct divisions.
He wrote in many verse forms including ghazal, masnavi, qata, rubai, do-baiti and tarkib-band. His contribution to the development of the ghazal was significant.
On the second day of the event Kabir Mahotsav will be organized. Under the event singers Hemant Chauhan and Nirguna will perform Kabir Bhajans. The event will be followed with Gujarati Garba songs.