• Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Delhi (photo: Anubhuti Sharma).
    Folds of Time: Delhi in the Memory of Qawwals
    Essay
    In this essay, the author unpacks memories of the city in the song of Qawwals, observing how in memorializing the past, Delhi emerges in Qawwali not as a location, an identity, or a descriptive category, but always as a space of desire.
  • In the Time of Qawwali
    Quotation

    «Qawwali carries within itself the memory of another city.»