It is impossible to process the disbelief of your passing. To think that it all began when you were just a sixteen-year-old art student here in Mumbai, discovered by the gentle titan Talat Mahmood, who was so spellbound by your talent that he insisted on singing with you. Later, your voices would melt together in that remarkable, tender duet Kahiye Suniye Aao Dono Iqrar Karen, announcing a rare star had arrived. For someone of your immense talent, the collective feeling today is a profound sense of deprivation; you should have sung more, much more. The industry should have cleared a wider path for a gift so pure. Yet, you never complained. When music directors like SD Burman, Shankar-Jaikishan, Roshan,........

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