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[[Abdul Karim Khan]], a singer of the [[Kirana Gharana]], described chilla as "lighting a fire under your life. You either cook or you burn. If you cook, everyone can enjoy your flavour – otherwise, you'll be a mass of cinders, a heap of ash." <ref>[http://www.themusicmagazine.com/alaaprev.html ''Guided Tour into a Fabulous World''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703215510/http://www.themusicmagazine.com/alaaprev.html |date=3 July 2008 }}, The Music Magazine, 2001)</ref> | [[Abdul Karim Khan]], a singer of the [[Kirana Gharana]], described chilla as "lighting a fire under your life. You either cook or you burn. If you cook, everyone can enjoy your flavour – otherwise, you'll be a mass of cinders, a heap of ash." <ref>[http://www.themusicmagazine.com/alaaprev.html ''Guided Tour into a Fabulous World''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703215510/http://www.themusicmagazine.com/alaaprev.html |date=3 July 2008 }}, The Music Magazine, 2001)</ref> | ||
"Forego your sense of self if you want to achieve greatness. It’s only when a seed is thrown in the soil, does it blossom into a flower of a lush garden". This was the famous Ghalib couplet, late Sitar maestro Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan often quoted, to sum-up the intensely grueling process of becoming a successful Hindustani musician.<ref> https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/features/masters-of-music-self-quarantined-for-creativity-95776 Tribune India</ref> | "Forego your sense of self if you want to achieve greatness. It’s only when a seed is thrown in the soil, does it blossom into a flower of a lush garden". This was the famous Ghalib couplet, late Sitar maestro Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan often quoted, to sum-up the intensely grueling process of becoming a successful Hindustani musician.<ref>https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/features/masters-of-music-self-quarantined-for-creativity-95776 Tribune India</ref> | ||
The word Chilla can also refer to the forty days after childbirth during which the mother is said to be "unclean", or quarantined, or more generally a period of religious fasting and worship.<ref>Shakespear, John, [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=shakespear&query=chilla&matchtype=exact&display=utf8 ''A Dictionary, Hindustani and English]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}'', Digital Dictionaries of South Asia</ref> | The word Chilla can also refer to the forty days after childbirth during which the mother is said to be "unclean", or quarantined, or more generally a period of religious fasting and worship.<ref>Shakespear, John, [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=shakespear&query=chilla&matchtype=exact&display=utf8 ''A Dictionary, Hindustani and English]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}'', Digital Dictionaries of South Asia</ref> | ||
Well known musicians who have documented their Chilla experience include Ravi Shankar <ref>https://www.genesis-publications.com/book/0904351467/raga-mala Ravi Shankar autobiography | Well known musicians who have documented their Chilla experience include Ravi Shankar <ref>https://www.genesis-publications.com/book/0904351467/raga-mala Ravi Shankar autobiography</ref> and Zakir Hussein <ref>https://www.pramanaresearch.org/gallery/prj-p670.pdf Pranama Research Journal</ref> | ||
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