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Saturday May 25, 2013

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Biennale’s Spiritual Solace Read more Magazines: Where the ‘Muslimah’ Speaks Read more Tracing the Pragaash: Hard-lines of Melophobia Read more A Recipe at Hand Read more A Political Myth-Making Read more Asghar Ali Engineer: An Incomplete Story Read more Life of Muhammad: A Critical Engagement Read more Etiquette of a Muslim Filmmaker Read more Dynamics of Information Ecology Read more A Dirge to English Muslim Magazines Read more

Tracing the Pragaash: Hard-lines of Melophobia

Author: Abdul Basith

Post date: 17 Apr 2013 - 03:54

February, this year Pragaash (means First Light) – the first all-girl-musical-band of Kashmir after a brief musical journey in the beginning decided to quit in the wake of a fatwa issued against them. The band members had live performances spiced with music and energy to make the people around them happy, but what they got in return was a string of death and rape threats on their social media pages and mobile phones.

The all-girls-rock-band formed by three teenage Muslim girls made their first public appearance on December 2012, when they participated in a ‘...

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A Spectrum of Exotic Bands

Author: Muhsin

Post date: 5 Mar 2013 - 23:10

A stage for diverse music traditions in the world and different cultures, Rainforest Music Festival for the year 2013 will be held on June 28-30 in Kuching, Malaysia. The major theme underlying in this gathering of sound is this: each band and each performer is a unit of voice/voices. When units come together in a space, it becomes the microcosm of the world we live in: an assemblage of varying tastes and perceptions.

The festival was founded by Canadian world music instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch in association with Edgar Ong, a film producer, Edric Ong and Robert Basuik, both...

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