Heer Ranjha — Part 5 of 9 (Taken to Rangpur · The Unhappy Bride · A Message to Ranjha · Ranjha Becomes a Jogi)
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
The classic Punjabi romance of Heer Siyal of Jhang and Dheedo Ranjha of Takht Hazara, from Heer (1766), the beloved verse epic of Waris Shah — the tale of a flute-playing cowherd, a proud and fearless heroine, and a love that defied two villages. Retold in fresh English.
This episode: Heer is carried to Rangpur and keeps her faith in a house of strangers; the unhappy bride laments through the twelve months of the year; a traveller girl carries her message to Jhang; and Ranjha, hearing it, goes to the hill of Tilla and takes the jogi's vows from the guru Balnath.
Texts: Waris Shah, Heer (1766), public domain. This retelling is a fresh in-house English rendering; the meaning crib of record is Charles Frederick Usborne's public-domain English prose translation (1901).
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