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Ahluwalia started composing these poems and singing them in concert in Canada, India and Pakistan. She and a circle of poets have become a part of the evolution of ghazals, thousands of miles away from its origins. | Ahluwalia started composing these poems and singing them in concert in Canada, India and Pakistan. She and a circle of poets have become a part of the evolution of ghazals, thousands of miles away from its origins. | ||
Ahluwalias bi-cultural life experience has made her adept at reaching new audiences something evident in her thoughtful and modern explanations on stage. To one recent audience, she explained that ghazals explore the many moods of love, from the ecstatic to the despondent, from pursuing the beloved to feeling the restlessness of unrequited love, and summarized by describing a ghazal as a highly-literate pick up line. Kiran earned a Juno Award in 2004 for her second | Ahluwalias bi-cultural life experience has made her adept at reaching new audiences something evident in her thoughtful and modern explanations on stage. To one recent audience, she explained that ghazals explore the many moods of love, from the ecstatic to the despondent, from pursuing the beloved to feeling the restlessness of unrequited love, and summarized by describing a ghazal as a highly-literate pick up line. Kiran earned a Juno Award in 2004 for her album, 'Beyond Boundaries' and a second JUNO Award in 2012 for her album, 'aam zameen : common ground'. | ||