‘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 ...

KARACHI: Renowned writer on arts, culture and history and critic of the art, Ally Adnan said that Qawwali was more than three thousand years old, but this unique type of Hindustani music was still ...

Between 1947 and the early 1950s, much of the music played on the state-owned Radio Pakistan comprised Urdu film songs, some Western popular and Eastern classical music, ghazals and patriotic ditties.

One of the characteristics of the modern weltanschauung (worldview) is to identify religion as distinct from culture. Islam, and Islam in Pakistan, doesn’t escape this bifurcation either. One popular ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Council of the arts (PNCA) started a 2-day Qawwali festival to entertain isolates with performance of renowned Qawwals late Tuesday. Featuring a unique expression of ...

around 1982 on a WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) album. WOMAD was Peter Gabriel’s world music label and brainchild. This was right about the time when a bunch of Brit record executives coined the ...

Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three ...

The eyes of the pop music world are on Austin, Texas this week. Thousands of bands and fans have descended upon the city for the South by Southwest music festival. Austin is also home to its own music ...

BAREILLY: A cleric at Dargah Aala Hazrat has passed a fatwa stating that playing ‘DJ and qawwali’ during Juloos-e-Mohammadi is against Islam. The fatwa, passed on Thursday on a query filed by a local ...