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Eid with Empress Market’s exquisite Gulab Jamuns

in FOOD 22nd May 202022nd May 2020
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We’re delighted to share the recipe for Empress Market’s exquisite Gulab Jamuns to celebrate your lockdown Eid this weekend. Head Chef Numra’s family recipe is infused with tales of cooking the mithai through generations. The sweet smell of the frying dough balls and cardamom syrup wafting through her home the day before Eid evoke Numra’s childhood memories of Eid in Pakistan. We hope you manage to make your own batch of fried, syrupy sweetness this weekend – wishing you all delicious Eid. INGREDIENTS

Dough balls

100g fine semolina…

The magical, meditative khayaal gaiki of Ustad Naseeruddin Saami
17 November 2019

in ARTS & CULTURE, MUSIC 13th November 201913th November 2019
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بره بره… الفسد والحسد ما بقى أمانة

Out! Out! Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary

These lines from Rachid Taha’s hit number Barra Barra echoed through the speakers in the moments leading up to Ustad Saami’s 11pm performance at the 2019 WOMAD Festival earlier in the year. A clever choice for pre-show playlist. Like the Ustad, the late Rachid Taha was a towering figure in global/fusion/world music. Fitting words too – for what was also the first weekend of a Boris Johnson government.

The huge, beautiful Siam tent is full as…

Funoon London’s Summer Soulstice with the Saami Brothers
4 August 2019

in MUSIC, THE SALON 8th August 20198th August 2019
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Har cheez ko apni asl ki tarf lautna hai.’

Everything will always return to its source.

A sacred reminder from the Saami Brothers as they speak about why Qawwali has endured and flourished since Amir Khusrau trained the Qawwal Bachay – from whom the brothers are descended – as the first proponents of the genre in 13th century Delhi. “We may wander for long periods”, they said in a 2015 interview, “or become distracted, but when we hear…

Jashn-e-Rekhta
5 – 7 September 2020

in DANCE, LITERATURE, THEATRE 24th August 202024th August 2020
Jashna-e-Rekht

Of space, time and feeling: Waqas Khan exhibits in Manchester
Until 25 February 2018

in ART & PHOTOGRAPHY 23rd November 2017
Waqas Khan

Remembering the Grunwick strikers: ‘We are the Lions, Mr Manager!’
21 – 25 November 2017

in THEATRE 22nd November 201722nd November 2017
we are the lions

Back in London: Faiz Ali Faiz qawwals
9 December 2017

in MUSIC 19th November 2017
Faiz Ali Faiz

‘The Survivor’ at the Imperial War Museum Short Film Festival 2017
20 – 25 November 2017

in FILM 15th November 201718th November 2017
Survivor

Madame D: A lip-smacking journey through the Himalayas

in FOOD 14th November 201714th November 2017
Madame D

The Lahore Literary Festival returns to London
28 October 2017

in FESTIVAL, LITERATURE 23rd October 201727th October 2017
lahore literary festival

The Funoon Salon presents
Sounds of Kolachi at the Bloomsbury Festival
21 October 2017

in MUSIC, THE SALON 19th October 201719th October 2017
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‘Echoes of Contemplation’ – Veeda Ahmed’s new exhibition infuses contemporary art with tradition
Until 20 October 2017

in ART & PHOTOGRAPHY 18th October 201723rd October 2017
Veeda Ahmed

Review: Child of the Divide – Partition stories of love, loss and lassi
October & November 2017

in KIDS, THEATRE 3rd October 20179th October 2017
Child of the Divide

Proportion in Music and Mughal architecture
13 November 2017

in ART & PHOTOGRAPHY, TALKS 2nd October 201710th October 2017
taimoor khan mumtaz

6 desi food fixes not to miss in 2017

in FOOD 30th September 201718th October 2017
Tandoor Chop House - 6 Desi Food Fixes

Book review: The Things I Would Tell You – British Muslim Women Write

in LITERATURE 30th September 201718th October 2017
The Things I would Tell you - review

India on Film: Death and Deception
October & November 2017

in FILM 30th September 201718th October 2017
India on Film NH10

‘Illuminating India’ at the Science Museum
October 2017 – March 2018

in FESTIVAL 30th September 201718th October 2017
Illuminating India

South Asia at the BFI London Film Festival
4 – 15 October 2017

in FESTIVAL, FILM 29th September 201718th October 2017
the-hungry-tiff

Bayadère: The Ninth Life – Orientalist fantasy re-imagined
16 & 17 October 2017

in DANCE 29th September 201718th October 2017
la bayadere

A South Asian film feast
September 2017

in FILM 15th September 201715th September 2017
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