The author is a culture critic based in Lahore
The takeover of the Taliban last year has so to say rolled history back. The future of music and the performing arts seems to be under a dark cloud
As more Pakistanis are being recognised abroad, there seems to be a disconnect between the values that are seen as determinants in the assessment of...
Remembering Ustad Sharif Khan who was not just a sitar virtuoso but also a master of the vichitra veena
The group from Ukraine, Kalush Orchestra, were triumphant with their song Stefania; an ode to a mother, which became the first Eurovision winning...
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, who died last week, was undoubtedly the greatest player of the santoor in the subcontinent
Naushad was the one who gave Indian film music the stature for it to survive and even thrive as a form of music in the region extremely rich in the...
How the theory of music, and if it can be said, putting music in a larger context became attached to the culture of the subcontinent
All the leading vocalists of Pakistan have sung Iqbal. The first vocalists to capitalise on his poetry and name were the qawwals
Despite two hundred years of European rule, no artiste or musicians made a significant impact on the West though many of their maestros, scores and...
The most critical factor in judging an artiste’s work is the availability of the work or the easy accessibility of the artiste for it is difficult...
