Shah Turab Ali Qalandar – A Tribute – Friday, November 7th at IIC Lawns, New Delhi

Greetings from Image Quotient!

I am writing to you on behalf of the Sufi Kathak Foundation. Most people are aware of the kakori kebabs but they are not aware of the tremendous syncretic Sufi traditions and the Sufi silsila associated with Kakori sharif, the sufi shrine. So the Sufi Kathak Foundation will be presenting a program dedicated to Sufi Saint Shah Turab Ali Qalandar, of the shrine Hazrat Takiya Kakori Sharif, popularly known as Kakori Sharif situated in Kakori, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The relevance of the shrine being the extensive poetry dedicated to “Krishna” and traditions which are followed even today.

The main features of the program will be Sufi Kathak by Manjari Chaturvedi to live Sufi Music, proposed to be performed by Khanqahi Qawwals, Janaab Noorul Hasan and Janaab Shabeeh Ahmed from the shrine of Kakori, Lucknow.

The concert is a part of the “22 Khwaja Project” a long term initiative taken by Sufi Kathak Foundation, to create awareness about the lives and messages of Sufi Saints and to preserve, promote and create awareness for the traditional Sufi music and dance.

Started in 2010, “22 Khwaja Project” is a long term initiative conceptualized by Manjari Chaturvedi, to create awareness about the mostly unknown 22 Sufi Shrines located in Delhi and around, taking the city dwellers through the lives and messages of the many Sufi Saints who had made this city their abode. Such annual concerts promote traditional Sufi music and dance through unique artist collaborations. The project also revives the works of erstwhile lesser known but exemplary Sufi poets of Awadh/ Uttar Pradesh who had extensively written under the influence of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb. This initiative brings to foreground the Sufi poets who have written in-depth poetry that is sung till today at the various shrines, however the public at large is unaware of the lives of these marvelous poets. Till date Foundation has organized 3 Concerts dedicated to the various Sufi Saints of Delhi and Awadh these are, Chiragh-e-dilli, Mehboob-e-illahi, Hazrat Bedam Shah Warsi- A Tribute.

Program: Shah Turab Ali Qalandar – A Tribute

Date: 7th November, 2014

Time: 7 pm onward.

Venue: Fountain Lawns, India International Center, New Delhi

I am looking forward to explore an opportunity wherein the event can be featured or Ms. Manjuri Chaturvedi can be featured/interviewed in your esteemed publication.