Lahore Overwhelms Modest Cholistan Singer

Korah Baghat, a 27-year-old resident of a remote village in Cholistan, describes Lahore as a ‘wonderland’. ‘The folks of this city are wonderful people. They shook hands with me, embraced me, sat with me on the ground, shared food and water with me in one pot,’ “The people don’t buy vegetables from us. They prefer to give water to a dog than us,’. Baghat travelled for the first time in his life by a train to reach Lahore to perform in the Cholistan Festival. Travelling by an air-conditioned bus and seeing multi-storey buildings ‘much bigger than the tellas’ (sand dunes) were unique experiences for him. ‘The tellas continue moving from one place to another, but these (buildings) remain at one spot.”