A SUFI MUSIC CONCERT on DEC 6th by Mukthiyaar Ali
Melanie Kumar
A Sufi music evening with Mukhtiar Ali
Sufi and Folk singer from Rajasthan
6th December 2009
St Joseph's Commerce College Auditorium
Brigade Road, Bangalore
Background
The demolition of the Babri Masjid by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6, 1992 at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh exposed India’s ugly communal, caste and majority politics. Dec 6th is remembered as a black day as the destruction of the Babri Masjid was a symbolic assault on the secular fabric of our society and failure of Indian State's machinery to protect the minorities.
What followed babri demolition was a series of outburst of communal violence throughout India particularly in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Surath and many parts of the country. The South India which was relatively free of communalism and communal violence began to experience outburst of communal violence too.
In Karnataka communal tensions centred around the issues of Bababudan giri, a sufi shrine in Chikkamangalur, flag hoisting issue in Hubli, attacks on churches, attacks on minority communities and women in Mangalore and the recent Mysore communal riots are result of rightist forces' communal agenda.
In Karnataka attacks by rightist forces targeting Christians and Muslims has raised to alarming levels in past one decade. We have also seen that socio-cultural and educational spaces gradually come under communal ideology.
Karnataka Komu Soudharda Vedike has been one of the prominent voices against communalization of Karnataka. Vedike has just not been a space for protest against communal forces but also a space to celebrate values of secularism, love and harmony. We are organizing this program to reiterate our commitment to our values of creating a harmonious society.
What is happening on Dec 6th
2009?
On this December 6th Vedike is organizing Souharda Raaga, a sufi music evening by Mukhthiyar Ali, Sufi, folk singer from Bikaner, Rajasthan. His music is a blend of mysticism, classicism and folk idioms singing Kabir, Mira, Rumi, Bulleh Shah and many other Sufi poets.
Celebrating values of love and harmony we feel is the best way to protest politics of hatred and violence that rightist forces believes in.
Join us for this program
This is a request to all of you to contribute to this event. Vedike is a coalition of more than 150 organisations, intellectuals, writers, artists etc and entirely a non funded group, it requests you to financially contribute to make this event successful
Please send your contributions to:
Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike
51, 29th cross, 9th main, Banashankari II Stage Bangalore -70.
Cheques/DD’s can be sent in the name of SOUHARDA RAAGA
Contact: Uvaraj on 9448371389 OR Deepu on 9448367627for details or write to us on: souhard...@gmail.com
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