Aftabuddin Khan News Today

A man of few words, Khansahib was a known introvert who never gave in to flashy moments on stage and was always completely absorbed in the music.

Through the “Prarthona” composition, Coke Studio Bangla challenges the Wahhabi/Salafi dominant narratives of Islam and promotes an indigenous, mystical, egalitarian, and subversive new “Muslim” identity. However, it does so by appropriating indigenous, folk, and Sufi music traditions, which historically took place in dargahs, and placing it in an experimental studio.