Music and arts across South Asia

As part of the democratization of art sales, the Colombo Municipality allows artists to sell their works in the street outside the Viharamahadevi Park

June 2 (Independent) - Some of the leading names in the music industry are participating in “Blackout Tuesday” amid calls for change in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Protests erupted around the US after a video emerged showing a white Minnesota police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis. In solidarity with the...

Lack of State funding, inadequate private sponsorship and high entertainment tax are crippling revival efforts in Sri Lanka.

The Ghazal "Ranjish hi sahi" written by Ahmad Faraz is originally from a Pakistani film Mohabbat (Urdu - 1972). The Music composer was Nisar Bazmi.

Movie: Do Behnen (1959) Singer: Lata Mangeshkar. Lyricist: Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi (Kavi Pradeep) Music Composer: Vasant Desai. Stars: Rajendra Kumar, Shyama and Chand Usmani

Each song is about figuring out various landscapes, says frontman Khalid of the Bengaluru-based band

A large number of Sri Lankan artists and art lovers thronged the J.D.A.Perera Gallery in Colombo to have a glimpse of the emerging artistic trends in Bangladesh.

In sharp contrast to the situation in the world today, when ethnic and religious groups are at each other's throats, the ancient Gandhara Civilization in Pakistan was a haven of tolerance.

Every day, various aspects of Chinese culture were exhibited to the delight of locals and tourists from all over the world.  

Recalling the words of his father Hafiz Ali Khan that "all of us have a common God and we are a common race", the 73-year-old maestro said, "I wish this message was given by priests of every religion."