#SherShahSuri

“Almost everything India "knows" about Tānsen — the lamps lit by a rāga, the rain called down by another — is legend; what is documented is the testimony of the most meticulous record-keepers of the age that his voice had no equal, and that is somehow the more astonishing claim.”

“He sang so well that a Persian chancery document — the driest genre on earth — stopped to say nobody in India had sung like him in a thousand years; and five centuries of North Indian classical musicians have traced their lineages back to him ever since.”