White your original Landay!!!! and Call the I Do Not Know Show And read it on the air live. with your real name. a "Landay" is a poem; a folk couplet Read the Following— a landay — an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than twenty million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Traditionally, landays are sung aloud, often to the beat of a hand drum, which, along with other kinds of music, was banned by the Taliban from 1996 to 2001, and in some places, still is. A landay has only a few formal properties. Each has twenty-two syllables: nine in the first line, thirteen in the second. The poem ends with the sound “ma” or “na.” Sometimes they rhyme, but more often not. In Pashto, they lilt internally from word to word in a kind of two-line lullaby that belies the sharpness of their content, which is distinctive not only for its beauty, bawdiness, and wit, but also for the piercing ability to articulate a common truth about war, separation, homeland, grief, or love. Within these five main tropes, the couplets express a collective fury, a lament, an earthy joke, a love of home, a longing for the end of separation, a call to arms, all of which frustrate any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa. wesufm.org 1 : 30 to 3 AM Sunday AM (Late night Saturdays ) USA Eastern tIME ZONE. LIKE THE I DO NOT KNOW SHOW PACE FOR NOTIFICATION here >>> https://facebook/pages/The-I-Do-Not-Know-Show-WESUfmorg-ProducerHost-CC-Arshagra/152300761561399 call in line Area code 860 Number 685 7700 use addition national calling cosdes if necessary.
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