The author is a culture critic based in Lahore
After 1947, Ustad Barkat Ali Khan, Mehdi Hassan, Fareeda Khanum and Iqbal Bano took singing to new heights
Most of the groups that produce stage plays draw their thespian language from the traditional or rural theatre
Ustad Sharif Khan spent long hours mastering the very difficult art of playing the veena
In the early 1970s, Shoaib Hashmi was on television setting up new standards for skits and episodic pieces
The European civilisation has conquered the rest of the world in the past 500 years
Manto focused on the horror of partition as well as the lives of labourers, petty officials and women
Naushad Ali’s success story is similar to Prithviraj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar’s rise to fame
Nusrat Fateh Ali took the qawwali, like his contemporaries, away from the shrine to the concert format
Vaisakhi was once the most prominent event of the agricultural calendar
Afghan musicians in Pakistan are nothing new but this time the threats to their lives and livelihoods are more serious
