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The Qawwali Project – An Untold Story
Dinesh Khanna
Sufi Kathak Foundation
New Delhi, India
QAWWAL HASNAIN NIZAMI. Hasnain Nizami is from an unbroken Qawwali tradition since 13th century of the famous “Qawwal Bachche Gharana”. It is said that 700 years agao, Hazrat Amir Khusrau originally trained 12 children in Qawwali, these children are known as Qawwal Bachche and their generations are singing till today, unbroken. The son of the Ustad Meraj Nizami, and as a tradition he sings a hazari (prayer) at the Sufi Shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin at New Delhi.
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- Title: The Qawwali Project – An Untold Story
- Creator: Dinesh Khanna
- Location Created: Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi, India
- Original Language: Text: Manjari Chaturvedi
- Type: photo
- Contributor: Sufi Kathak Foundation
- Rights: Dinesh Khanna
- Region: New Delhi
- Photographer's biography: Dinesh Khanna is a managing trustee of Nazar Foundation, and one of the co-founders of the Delhi Photo Festival and was also a photography curator for the first two editions of the Serendipity Arts Festival. He is the visual consultant with Sahapedia and advises on the ‘Sahapedia Frames’ Grant for cultural photography. He teaches photography in various institutions, and is a Director of the Dhrish Academy at the Museo Camera: Centre for Photographic Arts. He has published four books of photography — Bazaar (Penguin: 2001), Living Faith (Penguin & Harper Collins: 2004), Right of the Line: The President’s Bodyguard (Rashtrapati Bhawan, 2014), and Life in Rashtrapati Bhawan (Rashtrapati Bhawan, 2015).
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