Bianca Quddus

Ethel Smyth lived as though music and politics were inseparable. A British composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she...

Kazi Nazrul Islam is remembered across South Asia as the “ rebel poet ”, a nationalist voice whose verse challenged colonial rule,...

Ali Ekber Çiçek was a singular figure in 20th-century Turkish music—at once a guardian of tradition and a quiet revolutionary. Best...