Mustafa Quraishi

Qaul is an utterance…

Qawwal is the one who sings a Qaul…

Qawwali is the music form what a Qawwal sings…

The Qawwali are songs of love, of devotion, of longing, of union, of separation of man with the Divine.

The Qawwali Project is an initiative conceptualized by Manjari Chaturvedi where the untold story of Qawwali unfolds through the eyes of photographers. The practitioners are photo-documented with their performance art, their lives and their association with the Sufi shrines where they per...

I don't want to travel to meet 'noble savages' but to enhance my understanding of the world in a responsible way
Socialising as I do with many people who have had opportunities to travel, conversations about different corners of the world come up frequently, and those conversations often make me deeply uncomfortable. One such example is the "the people are so beautiful!" conversation, in which the residents of a given nation are described as gentle and kind and loving, so warm and welcoming. ...

THE LONG READ: How women journalists in India are coming together in solidarity with female reporters and media workers in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.
Kanika Gupta, an independent journalist based in Delhi, had been reporting from Afghanistan for three months when the Taliban took over Kabul.
On August 14, Gupta was interviewing an official from the Ministry of Defence in Afghanistan.
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The petite singer donned a relatively demure white dress for her splashy concert at the Delhi’s Formula One Grand Prix race, then added a microphone that looked “suspiciously phallic,” according to media reports in Indian newspapers. Some of the papers chose to blur out the microphone in photographs of her performance. (The offending photo can be seen at the bottom of the post.)

At the concert, Lady Gaga matched her piano notes to the Indian sitar and offered fusion music to her Indian fans w...

In a country where children are brought up to toe the line and respect authority, extraordinary images of young women have become de rigueur these past four weeks
If you attended any of the ongoing protests across India against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), or watched students on social media and television give the government a Ted Talks-quality lecture on the Constitution and the values it enshrines, you have probably noticed two things: 1. This generation of students is amazingly ...

Hier eine zerfetzte Handtasche, dort ein zerrissenes Shirt. Es ist Mitte April und über Bangladesch schwappt eine verfrühte Hitzewelle. In der erbarmungslos brennenden Nachmittagssonne hat sich eine kleine Gruppe vor zwei Schutthaufen versammelt. Frauen in alten, verblassten Baumwollsaris, einige Männer mit Gebetskappen. Auf ihren Gesichtern glitzern Schweiß - und Tränen. Es sind Angehörige von einigen der insgesamt 1133 Textilarbeiter/innen, die an dieser Stelle starben, als am 24. April ver...

A roadside tea vendor warms his kettle on a stretch of road near the Indian Parliament, in New Delhi.

Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Protesters raise slogans and wave the tricolor ahead of their march to Home Minister Amit Shah's residence, at Shaheen Bagh, on February 16, 2020.
Children in high school get awards like Mr or Miss Popular. In Delhi’s Modern School, Vasant Vihar, in the year 1997, I was given the Jai Hind Award. I was the only one in my batch of 150 who wanted to join the defence forces. I wasn’t being a ‘nationalist’ or a ‘good Muslim’. I didn’t think about these things back ...

A ROAD SIGN FOR FARIDABAD, attached to a foot overbridge in the Delhi neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh, has been spraypainted over. The altered text reads “Zindabad,” and a white sheet, with “Inquilab” scrawled on it, hangs above it. A one-kilometre-long-stretch below this sign has been the site of a women-led sit-in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act for over a month.
The protest began on 15 December 2019, in the aftermath of police brutality against students protesting the CAA at ...

At the Sufi Kathak Foundation’s Qawwali Photo Project, one is greeted by evocative photographs of qawwals performing at various shrines across the country. From the Nizami Brothers at the Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi, Qawwal Ustad Ranjhan Ali at Dargah Hazrat Bannay Shah in Amritsar, to Qawwal Sarvjeet Tamta at the Shaheen Bagh protest — these pictures document the lives of the ‘faceless’ practitioners of this 700-year-old artform.
Curated by the founder of Sufi Kathak Foundation, Manjari Chatu...

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A selection of images photographed by me from 2004-2013 for The Associated Press.

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The Indian government’s current preoccupation with development seems to focus wholly on its urban centres, ignoring the rural poverty that has made India infamous among developing countries. Consequences of this glaring social disparity are many. This revolt is one.
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