Pride of Performance for Abu Muhammad Qawwal — the legacy continues on September 11, 2020A well-deserved presidential award is a boon to the arts but it is unfortunately very rare, especially in our country, that the genius of an artist is acknowledged and celebrated befittingly during his or her life. But even bureaucratic apathy, at times is unable to ignore when an artist takes his or her centuries old […]
Arshad Mehmood — whose tunes they sang to! on September 27, 2019What do you do when you forget to take a book on a flight? You find an excuse to talk to the person sitting next to you. If that person happens to be a music producer and a composer who was a trend setter and a star-maker during the years you were discovering music, who […]
Irfan Hakim — the sculptor of birds, beetles and beyond on September 16, 2019Meeting Irfan Hakim, a sculptor who is happy living at his own pace and in his own space was an opportunity to remind myself that life does not need to be a race. Irfan, after graduating from Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts is currently teaching sculpture at the National College of the Arts […]