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Ginan Central: Ginan Recitals
Habiba Dhalla
Calgary, Canada
Profile Albums Ginans (61)
Education from grades one to three was in Gujarati. Religious education was mostly from parents, elders of the jamat and self learning. My greatest mentor was my dad who knew a lot of ginans and both my parents had beautiful voices. We also had a couple of volunteer ladies who used to dedicate an hour a few times a week to teach us religion and I am eternally grateful to them. Almost from the age of four or five till now at 73, I have been reciting, teaching and learning ginans. Incidentally my Gujarati background and other languages like Hindi Urdu kutchi taught me meanings of ginans and so I knew what I was reciting and could put my heart and soul into them. I also was an English French and Swahili teacher and after marriage came to Canada in the early seventies. I taught mission classes in Calgary and Edmonton at different times. I know almost four or five hundred ginans and will continually impart my knowledge to others. Ginans are like food for my soul and continue to recite and decipher the meanings by doing research. I try to teach my own children, three of them.Birthplace: Njombe, Tanzania
Centre/JK: Calgary South, Canada
Profile last updated on September 05, 2022.
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