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Sameer Rahat was performing Urdu blues at a private function when I saw him first. It’s a novel fusion, I thought, of two rich traditions set to music. He did it very well. A gypsy by temperament, he has a need to lose himself in the quest of self-discovery, freedom from contexts: where I belong, parents, situations in life. It came to me, almost, as a rude awakening: he’s so different from his father, yet that difference has something familiar—certain continuity in disruptio