While most fakirs sing to the accompaniment of the dotara or ektara, he uses the sarinda, a bowed lute that is the cousin of the more classically accepted sarengi, and is played across South and ...

The art of playing the bowed lute – sarinda – is dying. And Ijaz Sarhadi, the last patron from a family of Sarinda players, is struggling to keep the instrument alive in Pakistan. His ...