The Qawwali Capsules

The Qawwali Project – An Untold Story

The Qawwali Capsules featuring Qawwal Wajahat Hussain Badayuni by Manjari ChaturvediSufi Kathak Foundation

The Qawwali Capsules, where the practitioners speak, is an initiative by Manjari Chaturvedi wherein the practitioners themselves speak about their performance art, their lives, their association with the spiritual art they perform. This is focused on smaller town musicians who practice their art amidst the people in an organic, non-commercial set up. Their art form "Qawwali" is sung as a means of spiritual elevation a music form always associated with the Sufi traditions in India and Pakistan. This is an attempt by the Sufi Kathak Foundation to document the traditions as they exist at the shrines itself.

The Qawwali Capsules featuring Qawwal Arshad Hussain Chisti by Manjari ChaturvediSufi Kathak Foundation

The Qawwali Capsules, where the practitioners speak, is an initiative by Manjari Chaturvedi wherein the practitioners themselves speak about their performance art, their lives, their association with the spiritual art they perform. This is focussed on smaller town musicians who practice their art amidst the people in an organic, non-commercial set up. Their art form "Qawwali" is sung as a means of spiritual elevation a music form always associated with the Sufi traditions in India and Pakistan. This is an attempt by the Sufi Kathak Foundation to document the traditions as they exist at the shrines itself.

The Qawwali Capsules featuring Qawwal Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawaz by Manjari ChaturvediSufi Kathak Foundation

The Qawwali Capsules, where the practitioners speak, is an initiative by Manjari Chaturvedi wherein the practitioners themselves speak about their performance art, their lives, their association with the spiritual art they perform. This is focussed on smaller town musicians who practice their art amidst the people in an organic, non-commercial set up. Their art form "Qawwali" is sung as a means of spiritual elevation a music form always associated with the Sufi traditions in India and Pakistan. This is an attempt by the Sufi Kathak Foundation to document the traditions as they exist at the shrines itself.

The Qawwali Capsules featuring Qawwals Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad by Manjari ChaturvediSufi Kathak Foundation

The Qawwali Capsules, where the practitioners speak, is an initiative by Manjari Chaturvedi wherein the practitioners themselves speak about their performance art, their lives, their association with the spiritual art they perform. This is focussed on smaller town musicians who practice their art amidst the people in an organic, non-commercial set up. Their art form "Qawwali" is sung as a means of spiritual elevation a music form always associated with the Sufi traditions in India and Pakistan. This is an attempt by the Sufi Kathak Foundation to document the traditions as they exist at the shrines itself.

The Qawwali Project – An Untold Story by Dinesh KhannaSufi Kathak Foundation

Read more about Qawwals, the practitioner of Qawwali here

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Concept: Manjari Chaturvedi

Contributor: Sufi Kathak Foundation

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