In Nizamuddin dargah’s shadow, young rappers are giving Sufi culture a hip-hop spin. “Qawwali doesn’t let us say what we want to say. Rap gives us that space,” said rapper Umaid Abbas.
Both artists have had a great year. A$AP Rocky came out of his 6-year hiatus with the hit single ‘Highjack’ while Hanumankind made it to the Billboard top 10 with ‘Big Dawgs’.
Diss tracks are supposed to be rife with insults but this one has gone on to reaffirm the code of silence—one that even enemies are willing to uphold within hip-hop’s boys’ club.
Anubhav Shukla aka Panther calls himself a proud Sanatani. And he is a big fan of Yogi Adityanath’s development model in Uttar Pradesh. His song UP Se reflects on that.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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