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DELHI
Jahan-e-Khusrau
Delhi's famous tourist landmark, the tomb of Emperor Humayun, father
of Akbar the Great, was venue of a very significant event in March.
Jahan-e-Khusrau, celebration of the mystic Sufi spirit, was an event
organised by well-known
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The
shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (d. 1325) (left).
His poet disciple Amir
Khusrau was also buried here. Devotees from all over the Islamic
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film-maker
and painter Muzaffar Ali. Ali made it an international occasion, with
firm support from the Government of Delhi. Participants arrived in India
from many countries where Sufi traditions are still alive.
Whirling
dervishes from Turkey, a group of musicians from Sudan, another from
Iran, from Bangladesh Sultana Choudhuri's Baul singers and from Pakistan
Abida Parveen. Representing India were Shubha Mudgal, Nurul Hasan Qawal
from the Awadh
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The
tomb of Emperor Humayun, built by his widow, Haji Begum, is just
across the street from the Sufi dargah in Nizamuddin.
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(UP)
region, Samandar Manganiar from Rajasthan and Ghulam Nabi Namtahali
from Kashmir.
Today
Sufism is more about fusion music, sacred yet secular. Sufism in India
has a long tradition. It is one of the best examples of cross-cultural
art form. The Sufis' gift to India is rich, from classical to folk and
a large body of Sufi poetry.
Quiet
on the Temple Front
After
the overboil on the disputed site where once stood a mosque in Ayodhya,
there is calm. In contrast to the mood of the past few days comes a
proposal from Muslim intellectuals to hand over the land believed to
be the birth place of Ram, an incarnation of God Himself, because the
belief cannot be erased from the minds of Hindus. Let's see how the
fundamentalists on both sides react to the proposal.
A
Visitor from London
At the height
of the Oscar fever as we await the jury's verdict on our own `Lagaan',
comes Gurinder Chaddha, the film-maker who shot into fame with her very
first movie, `Bhaji on the Beach'. Her second feature is `Bend It Like
Bechem' and she came here to talk about it. It's the story of a Punjabi
girl in West London who prefers playing football with boys than cook
`aloo gobhi' in the kitchen like a good Indian girl.
-India Overseas
Feb-Mar,
2002
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