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    • Posts Tagged ‘music’

    Pak Bagpiper Who Played Heart-touching Melodies in Kashmir Jail

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    SRINAGAR: Sanaullah, a Pakistani prisoner, played the bagpipe for a prisoners' band at a Jammu jail and would churn out heart-touching melodies on his bagpipes, jail authorities say. Sanaullah, 65-year-old Pakistani militant, was attacked by a fellow inmate inside the jail and suffered serious injuries. He was attacked a day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died at a Pakistani hospital following a murderous attack on him in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sanaullah, convicted in 2009 after a prolonged legal...

    Posted 17 days ago.

    Lone Kashmiri DJ's Battle For Success

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    Coming from a conservative family that shuns music, Aki learnt the art from friends outside Kashmir Ishfaq-ul-Hassan SRINAGAR: A whiff of 'fresh air' after the controversy over Pragaash - an all-eve band in Kashmir. Battling social boycott threats, Kashmir's lone DJ (disk jockey) Athar Iqbal Mir aka DJ Aki is coming up with the first hip-hop remix album of Kashmiri songs. The first of the six songs...

    Posted 42 days ago.

    Kashmir's Classical Music in Last Throes

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    Kainaat Mushtaq SRINAGAR: Kashmir may soon have nothing left of its rich, 600-year-old, music and dance drawn from the mystic Sufi traditions, musicologists warn. The haunting melodies and sensual dances brought to the idyllic Himalayan valley down from Central Asia in the 15th century are fast dying out, they say. "Sufiyaana Mauseeqi or the music of the Sufis is on the verge of extinction," says Mohammad Yaqoob,Sheikh a Sufiyaana music teacher. “We have already lost 138 of the 180...

    Posted 50 days ago.

    International Mother Language Day: In Kashmir...

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    Today is Feb 21, International Mother Language Day - an observance held annually worldwide since 2000 to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the...

    Posted 89 days ago.

    Facing The Music, In Kashmir

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    The all-girl band from the Valley may have quit amid plenty of debate but it has not stopped the hundreds of others who have made a place for themselves as singers and rappers. Khursheed Wani brings you a report of how music was and will continue to be an integral part of the Valley It was a misty December afternoon. The streets in Srinagar were not too busy with people preferring to stay indoors to avoid the...

    Posted 100 days ago.

    Band disbanded: Kashmir's all-eve band quits now

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    Rakib Altaf SRINAGAR: Activists supported them, the chief minister tweeted in their favour, but then a statement against them by the valley's chief cleric ended it all. Just over a month after its debut performance during a competition, Pragaash, Kashmir's all-eve band has finally called it quits. "Just tell everyone that we have quit," Noma Bhatt, the band's lead vocalist confirmed through a text message. "We are no more a band." The girls were in the midst of a row, which erupted...

    Posted 106 days ago.

    Kashmir's all-eves band says won't quit

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    Rakib Altaf SRINAGAR: Members of Pragaash, an all-girls rock band in Muslim majority Kashmir, have denied reports that they called it quits after their performance at a competition generated abusive comments on social networking websites. The band, its name meaning 'morning light', received a standing ovation from young...

    Posted 109 days ago.

    Kashmiri maestro awarded prestigious Padmashree

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    SRINAGAR: Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaaz, a Kashmiri maestro, has been named for the prestigious Padmashree award on the occasion of 64th Republic Day. Son of a musician, 70-year old Saznawaaz is the senior most living 'Ustad' of Sufiyana Mosiqi (music of mystics), a centuries-old traditional music and dance drawn from sufism, now dying out fast in Kashmir. Among the 108 personalities from various fields who have been have been selected for the Padmashree awards, three including Saznawaaz hail from Jammu and...

    Posted 115 days ago.

    First girls' band rocks Kashmir Valley

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    SRINAGAR: The first girls' band named 'Pragash' is rocking the Kashmir Valley and recently received a standing ovation from the young crowd at the Kashmir Music Festival. In a first attempt of its kind, three young girls- Noma, the lead vocalist and guitarist, Aneeka who plays base and Farah, who is the drummer, came together six month ago to form the band and want to pursue their career in music. "Girls are usually shy and the only reason we are here is because we have the support of our families. Kashmiri society is...

    Posted 149 days ago.

    A week with Ravi Shankar and Beatle's Harrison in Kashmir's houseboat

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    Muzaffar Raina SRINAGAR: Listening to Ravi Shankar play the sitar in a houseboat on a placid Dal Lake for a whole week would be any music lover's dream. Ghulam Rasool Dar has little interest in music but the maestro's death has brought the memories flooding back to the frail and elderly Dal Lake boatman. Dar was just 19 when, 46 years ago, "Panditji" and Beatle George Harrison checked in at the shikara where he still works. "I was shocked when I learnt about his death yesterday and so...

    Posted 158 days ago.