1) The document discusses an interview with Salman Ahmad, the founder and lead guitarist of the Pakistani rock band Junoon. 2) In the interview, Salman talks about the band's 20-year musical journey and their defining album Sayonee. He also discusses their lyrics focusing on peace and unity. 3) Salman discusses his book "Rock and Roll Jihad", which details his cross-cultural musical journey and transformation after 9/11 from musician to activist. He also shares details about an upcoming Bollywood movie featuring Junoon's music.

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COMING UP: CITY’S
Newton thought that colour is infused by pressure
on the eye. To prove this, in an optical experiment, about Junoon is its founder and lead guitarist Ahmad with
he stuck a darning needle around the side of his eye other Junoon
Salman Ahmad. As the band got ready to rock
until it poked the back of his eye. He calmly noted
that he saw white, dark, and coloured circles when Jaipur on Saturday night, Salman talked to After
members at
After Hrs’ office
TRIBUTE TO TAGORE
h sird te nel i hs ee Atog i i nt
e tre h ede n i y. lhuh t s o Prabha Khaitan Foundation, in
known what he concluded from his experiment, Hrs about his music and what goes into making it association with Shruti Mandal
Newton argued that light is composed of pa t c e .
rils and FICCI FLO, will bring togeth-
Science later adopted a wave theory of light and er eminent artists from the city to
colour, because of what some experiments found.
Newton had some vindication on his theory, t o g .
huh
15 years after Sayonee… commemorate the 150th birth an-
niversary of Gurudev
W ith the discovery of quantum mechanics, light is Rabindranath Tagore with a
the Junoon
now thought to be both a wave and a pa t c e
ril. melange of cultural performanc-
es. To be held at Vidhya Ashram
on May 13, the program titled ‘Re-
membering Tagore’ will see these
Dalbeer Singh Negi/DNA artistes pay a tribute to Gurudev.
REMAINS
Among others, Kathak dancer
Manjiri Kiran Mahajani, Dhrupad vocalist Dr Madhu Bhatt
Tailang, singer Manisha Agarwal, writer and poet Ikraam
Rajasthani, sculptor Arjun Prajapati and artist Surendra
Pal Joshi will mesmerise the audience with their impressive
performances and art.
ALIVE
spirituality and —AH Correspondent
politics—they all
just come in the
same way . Aparna Sahay,bureaucrat
After Hrs Correspondent There was a time
lf i terto
DD DAYS: On the TV, I thought news was more entertaining
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f when Junoon faced
severe censorship in than the serials. Newsreaders Salma Sultan and Geetanjali
HEAR, HEAR: Diya Kumari (centre) listens as women Aiyaar were my style icons! However, I was a much greater
achievers from the state share their success stories
W ith their powerful lyrics
and even more powerful
music, Junoon defined the
Pakistan. How did
you feel about that?
It was just that both the
fan of music. I had a great collection of Boney M, the Bee
Gees, Paul Anka and Beatles’ LPs. And one last thing that I
Meet the genre Sufi rock in the 1990s. Today,
they are called the U2 of Pakistan.
Their music created ripples even in
India with their 1997 hit Sayonee,
countries did their nu-
clear tests at the same
time in May 98. I was
asked to express my views
really miss about those days are the morning shows of
English films at Prem Prakash and Gem! That’s where you
could meet the real crème de la crème of Jaipur.
DRESSING UP: Stretch pants and bell bottoms were the
unsung
and later with Paap’s Garaj baras. on it by a news channel in thing. The ultimate style statement, however, were saris.
After 19 albums, the band certainly and I said that there Back then, the Indira Gandhi style saris were quite popular.
seems to have carved a niche in the should be cultural fu- One other thing that I remember about those days is that
world of music. Lead guitarist sion, not a nuclear fu-
rickshaw drives used to be very stylish (laughs)! They
Salman traces Junoon’s musical sion. And, I (Junoon’s
dressed in half-pants and net shirts and newspapers
heroes of Raj journey with After Hrs.
It’s been more than 20 years
since the band was formed.
Many members have come and
music) was banned!
Tell us about your
book Rock and Roll
Jihad
were full of stories of rick drivers marrying German
or French girls!
WHEELS: What girls like us really coveted was a scooter.
Lambrettas were for old people, girls wanted the Vespa!
Coming from the different walks of life, left, but you remain here. What The book is about my Its booking used to stretch over months, so I had to settle for
each of these women have only thing in made you stay for so long? cross cultural jour- an Allwyn Pushpak. Some of the more adventurous girls at
I know that it’s been more than 20 ney and it was re- the university even owned motorbikes.
common—their drive to make a difference. years. But it feels like it all started leased at Jaipur Lit-
THE WAY WE ATE: Earlier, outside Suryamahal, they would
On Saturday, they were felicitated by a this morning. It feels like Sayonee erature Fest. I was a
serve seekh kebabs from a live grill. That was the hotspot for
came out yesterday. 20 teenag-
city organisation years just passed in a er when
parties! And, Natraj was another favourite—I don’t know why
it isn’t doing so well now—we often went there for dahi-
After Hrs Correspondent more than 450 child mar- snap. My parents gave me
two career choices—
sound I shifted
to US wada. Niros was the obvious choice for our non-vegetarian
a
fterhoursjpr@dnaindia.net riages in Rajasthan.
Usha was one of the 20 doctor and doctor. In
Pakistan and India, if one
POINT with
my
friends; I personally liked their vegetarian sizzlers.
MALGUDI MOMENTS: Two things: letters and summer
F or Chittorgarh native
Usha Choudhary, most
of her adult life has
been a tough battle against
the society, including her own
women achievers who were
felicitated for their similarly
meaningful contributions to
the society at an event called,
Celebrating being Women.
wishes to go against his parents’
wishes, it has to be for a really great
reason. Junoon was that reason for
me. I did spend five years in the med-
family and then
went back (to
Pakistan)
study medicine.
to
vacations at our nanihal; nobody sends picture postcards
anymore—I remember, my grandfather had this hooked wire
on which he kept all his letters! And my summer vacations...
they were mostly spent at my nani’s
family. Her parents had de- Organised by Preet Mandir ical school just to put a degree in However, after village near Aligarh. The fun I
cided to marry her off when Sansthan, the ceremony was mother’s hand. My mother still 9/11, I was just not a had stealing kathal,
she was 13. Usha had seen the held at Hotel Ramada on thinks that I will return to medicine musician anymore, I mango and litchi from
lives of women who were Saturday. someday . became something else. the orchards was just
married in their childhood Pushpa Srivastav, Pari priceless.
and she didn’t want to suffer Tilwani and Shipra Bhutani You are being called U2 of Why call it Rock and Roll Jihad?
Pakistan... Rock and roll means freedom and —As told to
like them. She said no. were honoured for their work
We sing songs about peace and unity . jihad means struggle. It doesn’t Shivani Sharma
“To just go against the de- in the field of education,
cision of my family was a while Saraswati Jain, Nis- U2 also often talks of upliftment. But mean bombing a building with
struggle in itself. More so, be- hant Husain and Apra there’s a significant difference in an airplane.
cause the society believed they Kuchchal were awarded for our music.
were doing the right thing. their services for the under- You are planning a Bollywood
But, I didn’t give up,” shared privileged. You show interest in politics too. venture too.
Usha said with a triumphant Apart from felicitations, Why? The movie is called Rhythm. It is all
gleam in her eyes. the event also saw a number The great poet Ghalib once said that about a girl who is lead singer in
It took her two years, but of cultural programmes. Em- art is of no use if you don’t express a college band and dreams of becom-
Usha managed to not only inent personalities of the city what’s happening around you. For ing a big musician someday. Also,
become a post graduate in like Diya Kumari, state example, when I was in medical she is crazy about Junoon. So, my
Hindi Literature, but she health minister Raj Kumar school, I saw people dying in front of role in the film is to motivate her. I
also finally broke off Sharma and mayor Jyoti me because they couldn’t get medi- have also sung two of the film’s
her engagement. Khandelwal attended cines on time. It affected me. Music, songs.
Then she started the event.
working with an Talking to After
NGO called Vikalp Hrs, at the end of pro-
in Jodhpur. gram, Diya Kumari
Now, she fights
for the rights of
noted, “It was a good
initiative to acknowl-
BEST OF 007’S TOYS GO ON DISPLAY
other women and edge the contribution Bond movie bosses are staging the biggest ever exhibi- camera from Thunderball, Halle Berry’s orange
against female of lesser-known tion of iconic props from the spy films, to mark the 50th bikini from Die Another Day, Bond’s underwater
foeticide. women birthday of the franchise in London. Lotus car from The Spy Who Loved Me, and
Usha is from the The famous exhibits include Goldfinger henchman Daniel Craig’s famous blue swimming
proud to differ- Oddjob’s bowler hat, the metal teeth sported by Jaws in trunks will also be on display.
buzzzz
share that ent two 1970s Bond films, Scaramanga’s pistol from The The exhibition will even feature
till date strata of Man With The Golden Gun, 007’s spacesuit from Moon- some of Bond’s American Express
Vikalp life!” raker, and tarot cards deck from Live and Let Die. card and his passport, which re-
has The flick-knife shoes worn by SPECTRE agent veals he travels under the false
stopped Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love, a waterproof name Arlington Beech. —ANI
Usha Choudhary
Think soups are just for winters? Try a chilled bottle gourd and mint soup, or the cold version of Rajasthani makke ki raab, and you might revise your opinion
Chef Mihir Kiran Mukherjee, cubes. Boil the bottle gourd in
Soups to
“They can be either fruit
Have a based or vegetable based,” elab-
orates Chef Abhijeet Mukherjee
of hotel Four Point Sheraton.
“These soups are always served
raw and uncooked. This is why
Country Inn and Suites
Chilled melon and
ginger soup
No. of portions: 4 the rescue
water, add salt, white pepper pow-
der and when its tender remove it
from heat and strain. Sauté
chopped onion and garlic in olive
oil till it turns translucent. Now
soup-erb
After Hrs Correspondent drink. In a nutshell, they are basic
they are very healthy.”
For those who are on a heath
regime, cold soups make a great
choice for lunch or dinner appe-
tisers.
very thinly slice the flesh. Sprinkle
the cucumber with salt and set
aside for 30 minutes. Wash the
cucumber to remove salt and dry
it with a kitchen paper. Place
mix the boiled bottle gourd,
sautéed onions and garlic in a
blender till it is of a paste consis-
tency. Add cream, mint leaves
paste, and oil olive to the bottle
a
fterhoursjpr@dnaindia.net perfect for Jaipur summers! in- Apart from their health bene- the cucumber in a bowl and stir gourd mixture and mix properly.
After Hrs finds out more gredi- fits, these soups are quite a treat in the remaining ingredients (olive Put in a chiller for 15 minutes and
S ummer soups are healthi-
er cousins of mocktails
and juices and are nearly
as easy to make. They not only
have a vibrant burst of flavours,
about
city chefs.
them from
Chef Mihir Kiran Mukherjee
the
of Hotel Country Inn and Suites
says that the concept of cold
ents of
these
recipes are
found
abundance,
in
for the taste buds too. “They can
be in any combination of
flavours that you like,” says
Chef Sunil of Hotel Marriott,
for example they can be made
Ingredients: 4 small cantaloupe
melons, 4 spring onions
oil, lime juice, chopped dill leaves,
chopped ginger, and extra virgin
olive oil), season with pepper
to taste.
serve garnished with croutons.
Chef Abhijeet Mukherjee,
Four point Sheraton
(trimmed), 60ml ginger wine, 15 Divide the soup between the Bing cherry soup
but are also as cool as an iced soups is ancient. And since the they were with or without sugar or with a
gms fresh dill leaves (chopped), reserved melon shells and top Ingredients: 12 dark and sweet
made in the Eu- hint of lemon.
150 ml fresh cream, lime juice, salt each portion with a little of the cherries pitted, 500gms vanilla
ropean Mediterranean, For those who are keen to
and pepper to taste cucumber relish. Drizzle a little icecream, 500ml Amul cream
Chef Nisar as well as South American coun- make them at home—Chef
tries. Nisar Ahmed of Zodiac restau- extra virgin olive oil over it and fresh, 500m fresh milk, and
Ahmed of Method: Cut the liver from the
“The idea behind them is to rant reveals the three big garnish it with dill leaves before 1tbsp cherry liqueur
Zodiac base of each melon so that it
keep the body cool and re- secrets to achieve the chilled per- serving.
restaurant stands upright, then cut a slice Procedure: Combine all ingredi-
freshed,” explains Mukherjee, fection of these soups—BLEND, off of the top. Scoop out and ents together and blend with stick
adding that the ingredients used BLEND and BLEND again till discard the seeds over a sieve, Chef Nisar Ahmed, blender. Serve in chilled soup
for these soups are perfect to deal you get an elegant smooth tex- save the juice. Once the flesh is Zodiac restaurant cups and garnish with
with heat and humidity of a ture. scooped out, keep the melon Chilled bottle gourd whipped cream!
Mediterranean climate. Since, “Soup’s consistency is thicker shells for serving. Now, puree and mint soup
the climate in Rajasthan is also than a smoothie, but thinner the melon flesh in a blender with Portions: 2
just as hot, these soups find a than that of a regular soup,” the spring onions, ginger wine, Ingredients: 400 gms bottle gourd,
place on our modern menus too. says Ahmed, adding that you
dill and fresh cream and then add 20gms chopped garlic, 30gms
Moreover, chefs love these will need to refrigerate the soup
enough of the save melon juice chopped onion, Salt to taste, 2
soups—they are not only a great for at least three hours before it
to preserve a good consistency. gm white pepper powder, 30
way to use the season’s fresh is served. If you are planning to
Add little lime juice, chill for an gms mint leaves, 70ml fresh
bounty, it takes mostly only a serve it to guests, garnish it with
whirl in the blender to prepare grounded nuts or freshly- hour before serving. cream, 50ml olive oil, 20gms
them. They can even be made in chopped mint leaves. Now, make a cucumber relish. Peel bread croutons
advance and stored in the refrig- and cut the cucumber into two Method: Peel the bottle gourd,
erator . halves, scoop out the seeds and remove seeds and cut it into