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One song, read closely — and one written back to it
A Punjabi Sufi kafi taken apart line by line against the tradition it comes from, and then an original Marathi abhanga composed to carry the same argument on the same melody, beat for beat.
the reading
Jaiye Sajana
Every line set against its station — ghurba, be-rangi, hayrat — and the chorus read as the moment losing every direction becomes the answer rather than the problem.
the composition
कोण्या वाटे जाऊ
A new Marathi abhanga in the Varkari viraha voice — Dnyaneshwar, Janabai, Meera's rang — metrically verified against the original so it can actually be sung to that tune.