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KARACHI: Habib University on Thursday evening held as part of its ongoing web series an online talk on ‘The critical edge of tradition: understanding Ghalib as Wali in contemporary Delhi’. Anand Vivek Taneja, an assistant professor of Religious Studies, Islamic Traditions of South Asia, College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University was the main speaker.
Prof Taneja in his opening remarks said his presentation was based on work he’d been doing for some time, a broad-based project on Indian Muslim ethics in the age of Hindu nationalism. He said on the evening of March 12, 2018 there was a programme on the famous 19th century Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib in a packed to capacity auditorium in South Delhi. Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan, a famous musician belonging to the Delhi gharana who passed away last year, was staging a narrative of Ghalib’s life punctuated by his poetry set to music. One of them performed at the beginning was
Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan, Yog Sunder and the Demise of the Old India
That old India was one where duty to family and society came before indulgence of the individual, yet hyper-nationalism was not audible from street corners.
Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan (left) and Guru Yog Sunder. Photos: Facebook
Artistes exert a pivotal influence on their surroundings. Exemplifying the creative urge and the inward gaze, no matter what the art form they practise, they are thought leaders. The year gone by deprived us of grievously large numbers of artistes, thanks to COVID-19 or old age, or perhaps the sheer stress of the times we live in.
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December 19, 2020 10:19 IST
Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan of the Dilli Gharana, who passed away last Thursday, was living heritage of the confluence that Delhi is
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Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan of the Dilli Gharana, who passed away last Thursday, was living heritage of the confluence that Delhi is
The death clock of 2020 has struck once again as Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan (25 November, 1956 to 17 December, 2020), the living repository of classical Indian Sufi music and the Khalifa (leader) of the Dilli Gharana passed away on Thursday morning. During the first morning prayers,
sum or the first and the last beat of the rhythmic cycle of music and time, brought an end to the life of the musician, whose antecedents date back to the court of Bahadurshah Zafar, according to Mirza Arif, Urdu poet and inventor, and a direct descendent of the Mughal family.
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