SAIN ZAHOOR (Pakistan)
Sain Zahoor, a Sufi poet, has spent his long life singing to devotees outside small neighbourhood shrines in return for applause, food and perhaps a roof for the night. Zahoor and his kin are the spiritual minstrels of Pakistan, the wandering guardians of a rich and vital street culture that exists, for the most part, completely below the media radar.
Sain Zahoor, a Sufi poet, has spent his long life singing to devotees outside small neighbourhood shrines in return for applause, food and perhaps a roof for the night. Zahoor and his kin are the spiritual minstrels of Pakistan, the wandering guardians of a rich and vital street culture that exists, for the most part, completely below the media radar.