The Warsi Brothers Nazeer and Naseer take a walk in the cobbled
streets of old city and delve into the history of qawwali and
tell Serish Nanisetti the alternative meaning of spiritualism
“Let my brother come, we will wait here,” says Nazeer Ahmed Khan
Warsi near the Patherghati Kaman as he dips into a small box of
chuna (lime) and puts it into his mouth. Once Naseer reaches the
place, the brothers cut a striking figure when they walk down
the cobbled streets of Mir Alam Mandi wearing their black
Kashmiri topi, black bandhgala and their lips red with paan.
“This area has changed. People think this is the old city. This
isn't. It was created less than a hundred years ago,” says
Nazeer, the elder of the two, as he leads us to the top of the
Qadir Yar Khan Masjid that divides the Patherghatti into two.
“My family has been living in the same area since the time my
ancestor Muhammed Siddique Khan was invited by the Nizam to be
his court singer after the demise of Mughal Durbar in 1857,”
says Nazeer. Muhammed Sid