The second day of the Bahar-e-Urdu festival was a vibrant celebration at the Dome SVP Stadium, marking fifty years of ...

Ustad Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawazi performed Sufiana Qawwali at the ongoing 19th National Urdu Book Fair at Quli Qutb Shah Stadium in Hyderabad. Says Hussain, “I started learning music from my ...

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.

The Maharashtra Urdu Sahitya Academy celebrates its 50th anniversary with Bahar-e-Urdu, a three-day cultural event in Mumbai featuring Urdu literature, art, and music. Highlights include seminars, ...

‘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 ...

The six-day Urdu Heritage Festival that began on Thursday has been drawing huge crowds, officials said. The festival has been held in Delhi since 2010, many people did not know about it because it was ...

Witty one-liners by writer Dr Arfa Syeda Zehra taking subtle digs at the provincial government dominated an enchanting discussion on qawali, titled ‘Festivity of Soul: the Tradition of Qawali’, at the ...

Famed British-Pakistani singer Zayn Malik has been the center of attention for quite a while now, and it seems like the singer has more in store for fans. The 25-year-old singer recently confirmed ...

I was delighted to read David Honigmann’s piece about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s popular song “Mustt Mustt” (The Life of a Song, January 25). It brought back so many memories of my teenage years when I ...