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Figure 1. (L) Balbir Kanwal with two of his articles in Urdu and English, at his home in Ilford, Essex, 5 August 2017. (R) The Lifetime Achievement Award conferred upon Kanwal by the Harballabh festival organisers, 2016.
Figure 2. Balbir Kanwal with some of his books on wrestling and music photographed at his home on 10 August 2021.
Figure 3. Ayub Aulia with his wife Khurshid Qureshi Aulia at the release of his Urdu book Sangeetkaar at the Nehru Centre on 16 August 2017.
Figure 4. Aulia and Kanwal with Aulia’s brother-in-law and son of Ustad Alla Rakha, the percussionist and djembe player Ustad Taufiq Qureshi, at the Namdhari gurudwara in East London, on 5 August 2017.
Figure 5. The late Firdous Ali (L), with the author (C) and Ayub Aulia (R) photographed on 24 March 2017.
Figure 6. Ustad Alla Rakha’s daughter, Khurshid Qureshi Aulia, during an interview at her home in Tooting, 2 June 2022.
Figure 7. Ustad Alla Rakha’s daughter, Khurshid Qureshi Aulia (Centre) and her husband, Ayub Aulia (Right), photographed with the late Firdous Ali (Left), on 24 March 2017. A portrait of Ustad Alla Rakha hangs in the background.
Figure 8. Firdous Ali’s family tree of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, handwritten for and gifted to the author, 2017.
