Across centuries and faiths, the words of Sufi saints and the mystical poets have travelled through music, poetry, and oral storytelling — and now they form the centrepiece of an evening that blends ghazals, bhakti poetry and Sufi kalam, all into one single performance. 

Performed by singer, Runaa Rizvii Shivamani, this programme titled The Kabiran Project, will explore the spiritual and humanist ideas that connect diverse devotional traditions. For Rizvii, the project is deeply personal. Raised in a household steeped in music, she traces her artistic roots to a lineage of ghazal singers. “I hail from a family of ghazal singers. My father was Ustad Rajkumar, and my mother, Srimati Indrani. My father was often referred to as “the Mehdi Hassan of India.”