SAF News

Testimony 3rd July 2008

Poornima Weerasekara - Mark of gratitude from a SAF Madanjeet Singh group scholarship recipient

I am Poornima Weerasekara from Sri Lanka, a lucky recipient of the SAF-Madanjeet Singh scholarship to attend the Asian College of Journalism this year.

In the media Nishchal N. Pandey, The Weekly Telegraph - 2nd July 2008

Srinagar Rocks not by Bombs but by the sound of Music

The South Asia Foundation (SAF) organized a rare concert of “The Singhs” and the “Junoon” groups in Srinagar in the third week of May.

News 25th June 2008

SAF - Quarterly

Message from the SAF FounderNews and Views on SAF activities

News 15th June 2008

Degree Show 2008, School of Visual Arts, Architecture & Design, BNU (Lahore)

This is a special time for BNU's School of Visual Arts and School of Architecture and Design students. In their 2008 Thesis Exhibition, our students are bringing four years of hard and challenging work to completion.

Testimony 5th June 2008
In the media 2nd June 2008

India's outlook on junoon in kashmir

Despite staying in the same hotel, it proved hard to pin down Salman Ahmed-the lead singer and guitarist of the Pakistani Sufi rock group Junoon-for an interview.

In the media The Tribune - 1st June 2008

Building cross-cultural bridges between SAARC nations

He did not become the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador by sheer chance. It was the trauma of India’s Partition and the images of violence engraved in his mind that forced Madanjeet Singh to promote cross-cultural ties among SAARC nations.

In the media Dawn - 28th May 2008

Junoon: Breaking down barriers

MUSIC knows no boundaries, allowing its universality to transcendage-old divisions and bring strangers — even rivals — closer to one another. Which is why one should appreciate, rather than condemn, concerts such as the one staged by Pakistan's Junoon band in Srinagaron Sunday.

News 27th May 2008
In the media The Asian Age - 27th May 2008

Sound track diplomacy

Everything is not politics in Kashmir, but everything tends to be