This weekend, dastangoi performer Askari Naqvi introduces Delhi audiences to the Awadhi tradition of soz khwani, in which deeply emotional songs of mourning are sung at religious gatherings. Until two ...

Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is observed as a period of mourning by devout Muslims, as it was during this month that Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was ...