Pakistan singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died in 1997, was hugely popular in India. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
Nilosree Biswas
Indians, divided from Pakistan by politics, find solace in forbidden culture
The case of two Muslim teenagers in India who were charged with criminal intimidation for listening to Pakistani music shows how deep the divide has become
It’s a far cry from the 1990s, when Pakistani singing phenomenon Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sought to bring both nations’ peoples together