Exploring along these lines a foreign reader occupies the idea of thumri as a genre in semi-classical Indian music. The term is colloquial to the word ‘gharana’ in the Indian …show more content…
In “Crucifixion” from A Nostalgist’s Map of America Ali embraces tribal American descendants and makes mention of ‘Navajos’ a tribe of the South Western United States. In another poem “Leaving Sonora” Ali unites another culture known as ‘Hohokam’. ‘Hohokam’ is a civilization of North-American Indians who belongs to Southern Arizona. It figures as a prominent pre-historic cultural way of living which could be now known in American Southwest. The poems by Shahid Ali in his reference to variant cultural and traditional forms arouse a set of images that moves across the world developing forth the scenes from world archive. For him India and America existed together, and we see him acknowledging this in many of his poems. In the poem “In Search of Evanescence” from A Nostalgist’s Map of America, Ali embraces two countries together as