Can a devotional song erase the lines that divide people? Across history, music has often done what politics and borders ...

That is the question that Delhi-based documentary filmmaker, researcher and writer Yousuf Saeed is answering through his database of qawwalis in Hindi language cinema. The director of a documentary ...

Sufism, or tasawwuf, the mystical and esoteric dimension of Islam, encompasses both a rich tradition of Sufi music, known as sama in Arabic and sema in the Turkish-Persian tradition, and a ...