Sonu Nigam's new qawwali ‘Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai' from Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar has sparked nostalgia as fans compare it to the ...

As Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar continues dominating headlines with its soaring box office numbers, one unexpected highlight has taken centre stage — a stirring qawwali-style track built around the line ...

The murder of the renowned qawwal, Amjad Sabri came as a rude jolt to the popular genre of vocal music, but to think that this will toll a death knell for qawwali would best be described as jumping to ...

Two decades after Nusrat, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan takes the qawwali even closer to the song format and strengthens its place in film music It has been twenty years since Nusrat Fateh Ali passed away and ...

“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 ...

Are newer incarnations of qawwali straying away from traditions of this revered musical form and, even if they are, does it matter? I only have qawwali to blame for my first and solitary act of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over pulsating drums, vigorous handclaps and harmoniums, the voices come in waves, each higher than the last.

KARACHI: Nearly two years after Pakistan's foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, the devotional music of Sufi mystical sect is struggling to survive, as fears of sectarianism ...

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 ...

It is past midnight. The marble floor of the Nizamuddin dargah is covered with dew. The pungent fragrance of incense engulfs the compound. The mausoleum is lit up with fairy lights. The shrine is ...

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 ...

*I had to watch a whole lot of Bollywood qawwali item numbers to figure out how actors are supposed to behave during a qawwali song. I'm still working on that problem, but I have a coherent theory now ...