Aalu Anday (Potato and Egg) by the Pakistani Punjabi band Beygairat (shameless) Brigade
Its scathing lyrics take on taboo subjects such as Islamic fundamentalism and the Pakistani army chief in a way that no one has done before. It also pours scorn on Pakistani society where ruthless killers - such as Mumtaz Qadri who killed a politician for his religious views and Ajmal Qasab the sole surviving gunman from the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks - are glorified as heroes by some.
This is a place, the song goes, where a Pakistani Nobel prize-winning physicist, Abdus Salam, is forgotten because he is from the minority, and much reviled, Ahmadi community.
Bayghairat Brigade are three young men with a sense of humour but also, clearly, with a sense of despair about Pakistan.
The potato and egg curry of the title is just a way of lamenting how Pakistani society dishes out the same old rubbish year after year. (Read More)
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