“There are certain things that must be done for the sake of history.” That was Manjari Chaturvedi’s motivation for curating the Qawwali Photo Project, an exhibition of photographs featuring the lives ...
Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...
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‘Qawwali is more than music; it’s a universal expression of devotion that unites people’
Fresh off his Bollywood playback debut in the Akshay Kumar-starrer Sarfira, singer Sagar Bhatia returned to Hyderabad for his third performance in the city. The evening was full of energy as the ...
Have you ever wondered how qawwali transcended years of cultural appropriation and still finds relevance in mainstream art and cinema? In another session, founder of South Asian Alliance for ...
Dhurandhar’s hit song Ishq Jalakar – Karvaan is inspired by the iconic 1960 qawwali Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai from Barsaat Ki Raat, a ...
Pakistan is remembering today the legendary qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on his 70th birth anniversary. Known as the king of qawwali, the maestro was born in Faisalabad on October 13 1948 into ...
Qawwali has historically been upheld by gharanas that boast of an affinity with the genre that dates back to the time of Amir Khusrow. However, changing trends of the music industry in recent times ...
This playlist features Pakistani and Indian world music artists I deeply admire. They bent the rules and took chances, creating something new and sublime along the way. The most famous female qawwal, ...
‘Sufisaints bring people together. And so do the musicians and singers who sing Qawwali, an Indian localised form of Sufimusic,’ said Haji Mohammed Idris of the Qutbi Brothers, one of India’s most ...
Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...
REHMAT-E-NUSRAT will perform at The Piano Man in New Delhi on March 8, showcasing their qawwali talents before heading to ...
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