Roshan Kal School serves as a home to less fortunate children on February 21, 2018There is a story from Sufi tradition that goes like this: one of the twelve boys trained by Amir Khusrau to spread the message of Islam through qawwali had a cleft lip and could not close his mouth to enunciate some of the words. Rather than sideline him, Amir Khusrau developed a genre of qawwali, […]
‘Music and dance are not in the list of five items declared to be haram’ on November 26, 2017I first met Ally Adnan in Islamabad where he was conducting a seminar on qawwali. I remember being apprehensive at the thought of three hours of qawwali and PowerPoint presentation, but the evening was so adroitly managed by Ally, seamlessly moving between song and story, music and explanation, that it was as though a spell […]
NGO Auntie is back! on July 28, 2017 It has been a busy time since we last met. People have been writing in every day telling NGO Auntie of new NGOs they have registered after reading her advices. In Dubai, an enterprising young man has left his banking career to start the Fellowship Against Racial Tension (FART) and is currently conducting research […]
NGO Auntie is back! on July 28, 2017 It has been a busy time since we last met. People have been writing in every day telling NGO Auntie of new NGOs they have registered after reading her advices. In Dubai, an enterprising young man has left his banking career to start the Fellowship Against Racial Tension (FART) and is currently conducting research […]
NGO Auntie is back! on July 28, 2017It has been a busy time since we last met. People have been writing in every day telling NGO Auntie of new NGOs they have registered after reading her advices. In Dubai, an enterprising young man has left his banking career to start the Fellowship Against Racial Tension (FART) and is currently conducting research on […]
NGO Auntie helps solve start-ups woes on July 21, 2017Education in Pakistan is improving day by day. Every year, the number of girls and boys getting masters degrees is increasing. But one problem is that many of these degrees are in useless subjects like English Literature (why do you have to go to university to read a few books?) or Women’s Studies (not even […]