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Malika Pukhraj may not have been in the limelight in recent years, but her fans drew comfort from the fact that she was alive and could catch a glimpse of her on TV on rare occasions. It was many years ago that the lady, sporting tinted glasses, a kind of trademark, made an appearance on our television screen singing some of her oldies. One did sometimes see her on TV giving her views on music. But now, the curtain has finally fallen on her. Malika Pukhraj has left behind a small but rich repertoire of her folk songs and ghazals. Her legacy includes Tahira Syed, her daughter, who has been so inspired by her mother that she hasn’t evolved a style of her own. In other words, she is to Malika Pukhraj what Shanti Hiranand has been to the legendary Begum Akhtar. Hiranand may not have been Begum Akhtar’s biological daughter, as she was childless, but she loved and cared for her Ammi as any daughter would. Shanti couldn’t come out of Begum Akhtar’s shadow either, and she is on record to have said that she didn’t want to. Pukhraj was a contemporary of Begum Akhtar and though their respective styles were vastly different, they had two things in common. Their strong moorings in classical music, which lent immortality to their ghazals, and their fondness for the folk songs of their own provinces. Malika didn’t leave any opportunity to praise Begum Akhtar, and one hears that the Indian singer had nothing but compliments to pay to the Pakistani exponent of ghazals and Dogri folk songs …