Born in lockdown and watched by millions, the Orchestral Qawwali Project is transforming a 700-year-old sacred tradition for ...

Today, Sufi music jams with blues, borrows from techno and drifts into Irish melody. Yet new artists are holding on to old wisdom. We’re here for the spin ...

The Al Qurum Natural Park venue of the ongoing Muscat Nights witnessed dews of Qawwali music being showered on the packed ...

Basant Panchami is observed at Hyderabad’s Hazrath Shaikhji Hali Dargah with qawwali, poetry and yellow flowers. Rooted in ...

Chowmahalla Palace continued to be an active palace long after the sunset over the Charminar skyline. With bright warm lights ...

What is 'Bhajan clubbing', the latest viral trend? It mixes bhajans and sufi chants with upbeat beats to create a new ...

The Telangana Arts and Cultural Council hosts Sufi Basant Festival in Hyderabad to celebrate spring, music and oneness ...

The 16th edition of the literary festival will host discussions on climate, science, indigenous and endangered languages in ...

Hyderabad: Tucked away in the narrow lanes of Old City, a small dargah quietly carries forward a tradition that reflects the ...

Perhaps the most respectful defence we can offer Rahman is not to place him beside Burman or Madan Mohan, but to let him ...

It was a hot humid afternoon in the mid-1990s. Clutching a file which contained my CV and clippings of a bunch of letters to the editors published in national newspapers, mostly in The Times ...

It feels just like we’ve gone 15 or 20 years back in time in Lahore,” says actor, singer and musician Haroon Shahid, as he meets Mekaal Hasan — producer, guitarist and overall frontman of the ...