 "Prakriti Prashant will translate the expressions of Sufism to Kuchipudi")
The ruins of Arab ki Sarai in the Humayun’s Tomb complex, across the road from Sunder Nursery, are once again reverberating with the sound of Sufi music. The sarai (hostelry, or inn) built in the 1560s by Humayun’s widow Hamida Banu Begum for the 300 Arabs she had brought with her from Mecca, has often been the chosen venue for Jahan-e-Khusrau since 2001, when the three-day annual Sufi music festival first began.
Held to commemorate the death anniversary of one of medieval India’s most celebrated poet-musician-scholars, Amir Khusrau, whose resting place in the Nizamuddin dargah is not far from here, this
