Its easy to lost in the narrow streets of Basti Danish Manda we were told everyone knows the Nooran household in this dusty neighborhood of Jalandhar but an angry son has forced people indoors and our host’s phone refuses to respond as my colleague cureses me for bothering with these unprofessional non-celebrities a rustic suddenly fills the air he shuts up follow the voice I say the voice pauses starts again and slowly pulls us by the heart string right to the gates of a descript house this is an Nooran residence and we have walked in to a riyaaz session. Pushing aside a gate already open we find two little girls alaap. We trying being discreet so that they do not stop, but they spot too soon and run inside to call their father why did you stop them my colleague blames me.I everyone musician in this house expect my wife the critic Gulshan winks adjusting the Ambedkar photo hanging on a wall next to a portrait for the Sikh guru and a photograph of mecca, islam’s holist shrine gulshan notice me noticing the religious juxtaposition this is our culture tracing our lineage to guru nanak’s trusted assistant Mardana we are too good old much maligned he guffaws just as jyoti ansd sultana walk in accompanied by their mother the two little girls are behind them she is Muskaan nine. And that Ritu five says gulshan sultana husband Aadil introduces himself I play tabla. Sultan is 19 and jyoti just 14 gulshan also their guru introduces them with 4 lakh hits you are a rage on youtube I start off with great news. They have no clue what I am talking about. I simplify I am talking about you song Tung Tung made by music Director Sneha Khanwalkar on thee MTV show Sound Trippin on the internet 1 lakh people have loved it. That’s unbelievable as smiles fill the room I knew this would happen  says the mother our girls are sing for Doordarshan Actually we just returned from Bombay there was another programme with MTV rells jyoti.Why did not you tell me earlier you never asked she smiles they called up there a plane. Papa started crying at the airport in Chandigrah.I was overwhelmed at one time I had left over my father drinking habit and worked on a farm for years a plane is stuff of dreams for people like us he says I mention his famous maternal grandfather bibi Nooran yes my naani recorded for HMV in the 70’s after she died my mother Swarn Nooran and father Sohan Lal but after my father died the pop music wave swept my mother away at her insistence I started singing again. What about the brother who’s had a bolywood hit. Some years ago Sneha ji found out about us and made my younger brother.Dil Bahar singh for the movie oye lucky lucky oye but at this moment my mother and dil bahar singing in a village mot much has changed we have invested everything in jyoti sultana they started singing professionally five years ago and will be famous Sufi singers.And we will never sing Miss Pooja type songs what did u sing at Coke Studio Bulleh shah allah hoo our great grandmother favourite says jyoti and how did the gig come about someone came looking for us here and then called us to Bombay we recorded on May 21. it will be on TV in July she gushes. Gulshan adds smugly I heard last years coke studio did not work this year they wanted real musicians

what is real music can you show us I poke sultan throws me a cold stare then  smiles its what we do and suddenly unleashes the magic on a cue from jyoti Ranjha Ranjha Kardi ni mein the girls brlt out and we are thrown back in our chairs Gulshan adds background vocals Sahil is on the tabla again and Muskan and Ritu start singing along not needing a cue. Time stands still. In between I see them holding back smiling to each other deciding not to go a scale higher or else the world would melt into little particles and start revolving around them Maybe they should let that happen.