Listened to by artisans as they work or at gatherings of Sufi music aficionados, cassette players hold sway in ...

Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz searches for a favorite cassette tape at his tailor shop in the outskirts of Srinagar ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

Photographs of Sufi saint Mohammad Rajab Shaksaz, left, and the late Sufi singer Ghulam Ahmad Sofi, center, along with a collection of his cassettes with his songs, are displayed inside a tailor ...