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

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

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, ...

Ranveer Singh's new film 'Dhurandhar', directed by Aditya Dhar, is an espionage thriller inspired by real events. The story ...

Though today Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s initials, NFAK, circulate across digital spaces much like any modern pop star’s moniker, ...

The Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad Ensemble perform an ancient musical tradition, known as Qawwali, which has roots stretching back to 13th century India.

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 ...

Shahnaz Gill praises Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, saying his voice is unmatched and his music makes her feel spiritually connected ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

*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 ...

The Houston group discusses bringing ancient Muslim traditions into the contemporary world — and even collaborating on music for a Disney show. Music has long been part of religious practices around ...