A far cry from Adityanath’s Hindutva, the Nath Yogi tradition has a history of religious pluralism

The movement had resisted the application of fixed religious identities of Hindu or Muslim, scholars have found.

Hammad Khan

· Oct 07, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Pass that chillum: Why is pot-smoking so common at Sufi shrines and why is it frowned upon?

Colonialism and modernity turned hashish from a gateway to transcendence into one of degradation.

Hammad Khan

· Jun 22, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Pakistan’s attempts to secularise qawwali are unnecessary – it has always been pluralistic

A secular understanding of qawwali is anachronistic to the pre-modern progenitors of the art form.

Hammad Khan

· Jun 07, 2018 · 01:30 pm