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STORIES FROM THE GROUND
This is where the work breathes.
From the banks of the Indus to the shadows of Karoonjhar, these stories trace Lahooti’s journey through resistance, revival, and ritual.
They hold moments where music became memory, where archives turned into action, and where voices long unheard took center stage.
Each story here is a window into how Lahooti builds — slowly, locally, and with care.
Welcome to the pulse beneath the performance.
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LAHOOTI STORIES
WITNESS THE
MOVEMENT
Echoes Across Sindh:
How 16 Lahooti Festivals
Sparked a Cultural Awakening
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A deep dive into the joy, resistance, and regional pride that has defined Lahooti Melo across five cities — from rooftop jams to public movements.
Archiving the Ephemeral
How Lahooti’s artist retreats and residencies birthed the first-ever digital archive of the Karoonjhar Mountains — preserving memory in a region long pushed to the margins.
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Inside the Heritage Stream that Rewrote Pakistan’s Musical Landscape
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From boreendo to beat drops — experience music with Lahooti Live Sessions that gave visibility to hidden musical lineages and reshaped how folk and future collide.
RHTHYMS TO REC RDS
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MITTI JI DHUN
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Under the open skies at Lahooti Melo 2024, Hyderabad Edition, Fakir Zulfiqar and Saif Samejo sat down to trace a musical lineage deeply rooted in soil, story, and song. Zulfiqar spoke of his journey—from ancestral pulse to present-day purpose—illuminating the rhythms of Sindh through voice and verse. This session also features the late Dr. Aakash Ansari, whose bond with Zulfiqar's father was woven in mutual respect, poetry, and shared memory—echoing through the conversation in soulful remembrances.
UTH SINDH SAEEN
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Uth Sindh Saeen is Lahooti’s first anthology dedicated to the Indus River — a collective cry against further canal construction and a call to recognize the river’s personhood. Curated by Areesha Khuwaja, the anthology weaves together years of conversations with storytellers, water experts, policymakers, and movement elders, forming a chorus of resistance rooted in memory and care. It stands as both a record and a refusal — refusing the erasure of Sindh’s lifeline, and recording the deep cultural, ecological, and spiritual bonds that tie people to the river.
MITHA MEHRAN MAIN MILBO
“Mitha Mehran Main Milbo” brings together young voices and veteran artists in a stirring tribute to Sindh and Mama Jumman Darbadar. Anchored by the haunting line, “In every birth, may we be born in Mehran and meet here,” the song has become an anthem of belonging and resistance — echoing across protests, movements, and gatherings. Especially in the face of injustices like canal projects that strip lower riparian communities of their rights, this is more than a song.
It’s a vow. A homecoming.
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