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, ...

The upcoming release of 'Ishq Jalakar (Karavaan)' highlights its historical significance in Indian music. Delayed most likely ...

The trailer of Dhurandhar ended with a 65-old tune, composed by Roshan, but like many other Hindi film tunes, this too, had a ...

Australian Qawwal Party is a group of Sufi singers of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Fijian descent. In this studio interview with SBS Hindi, they share their love for Qawwali, their journey in ...

The moment the song appears in the trailer, social media lit up with posts celebrating its return. Among those expressing ...

Though today Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s initials, NFAK, circulate across digital spaces much like any modern pop star’s moniker, he has always been a pop-cultural icon. Even at his peak, he was more than ...

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 ...

Celebrated Qawwali maestro Sagar Bhatia, popularly known as Sagar Wali, is set to embark on a 15-city nationwide tour of unparalleled scale from March to June this year to entertain fans of Sufi music ...

KOCHI: The renowned Rampur Warsi Brothers will bring their soulful Sufi Qawwali music to Kochi from November 11 to 15, staging performances across various school and college campuses. Led by the ...

A Qawwali group performs during the opening ceremony of an Indian cultural festival at the Niavaran Cultural Historical Complex in Tehran on July 27, 2015. The festival will run until July 31.