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Mehdi Hassan’s poignantly soulful rendering of ghazals is a proof that great singers give voice to your inner silences, writes MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. “Ab ke hum bichde to shayad kabhi khaabon me mile…” (As we part now, let’s hope to meet in dreams…) Mehdi Hassan keeps singing and his magical voice, with so much ihsaas and jazbaat, enchanting you timelessly. Great voices are like great
How could journeys transform our souls? American movie The Way, directed by Emilio Estevez in 2011, offers many insights, says MUHAMMED NOUSHAD in this review. Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters
SALMA YAQOOB is a British politician: the former leader of the Respect Party, the organizer of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and an elected city councillor in Birmingham. BirminghamPost described her as a “doughty fighter for Birmingham’s inner city communities”. A brilliant orator, she is a regular commentator on current affairs. She was recently in Kozhikode attending the 10th
Desert is an ever-alluring captivation. A note on a desert ride in the UAE. Life in its completeness; you can see it only in a desert, wrote Muhammed Asad, the legendary scholar and one of the most gifted travelers ever lived. To remember this now, I have not reached any real deep desert; just a few miles off-road, somewhere between
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the second edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale held between December 2014 and March 2015. Photographs by NAVAS MACHINGAL. Art opens a door: to the infinities of universe, to the obscurities of human innerness, to the possibilities of another world. Sometimes a spiritual ascension. An unexpected prophetic rescue from the imminent descent into the cave of evilness. Existing or nonexistent. Realistic
