The Qawwali Project - An Untold Story

Tradition is that people visiting the Shrine give money to the Qawwals singing for the Sufi Saint. The collection is random and the Qawwals, practitioners of Qawwali music, are now opting for other vocations. With this shift, unfortunately there will be no successors for further practice and continuity of Qawwali music.

The Qawwali Project, is an initiative conceptualized by Manjari Chaturvedi where the untold story of Qawwali unfolds through the eyes of photographers. The practitioners are photo-documented with their performance art, their lives and their association with the Sufi shrines where they perform. Qawwali is the performance art and Qawwal is the practitioner. This is an attempt by the Sufi Kathak Foundation to document the traditions as they exist at the shrines itself.