The database started out with 250 songs in 2021 with funding support from the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and now the number has swelled to 800 and counting. It includes music from ...

Most recently during the lockdown, Akbar has been keeping the tunes flowing, through an online cloud clubbing initiative on his official Instagram and Facebook Live handles, as he believes ‘Music ...

*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 seventh edition of Understanding Qawwali celebrated the art form with the launch of Manjari Chaturvedi's book, 'Qawwali: ...

REUTERS - Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, known for both Bollywood hits and Qawwali, Sufi devotional music that dates back more than 700 years, is taking the two genres to Britain in August for three ...

The qawwali, a musical genre closely associated with Islamic Sufi tradition, has evolved over the generations to include not just devotion, but romance, comedy and even social commentary in its fold.