On this episode, Cyrus is joined by singer and musician Wajiha Naqvi, who recently had a new song out on Coke Studio Pakistan called 'Yaqeen', and has also been a backing vocalist for Coke Studio season 11 in Pakistan. Cyrus and Wajiha talk about COVID lockdowns in Karachi, Imran Khan as PM of Pakistan, bringing India and Pakistan together, Wajiha's work with Szabist and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture where she was a visiting faculty, enrolling in a business school in Lahore and discovering her love for anthropology, how she got into singing and music, going to New York University, being a Pakistani Hindustani classical musician, how she got to work on Coke Studio 11, and lots more. They also discuss the history of Hindustani classical music and the Khyal form of Hindustani music, how the qawwali is closely connected to the khyal, Cyrus having hungnout with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Wajiha's new performance setlist titles 'Hijrat' with songs in five different South Asian languages, and lots more.

Check out Wajiha's article about 'The long-ignored connection between Hindustani classical khyal and qawwali': https://scroll.in/magazine/932507/the-long-ignored-connection-between-hindustani-classical-khyal-and-qawwali

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