During the holy month of Ramadan, when the believers fall asleep in the wee hours after staying up late praying, the reverberating drums of the Sahar Khan have long traditionally been useful to help people to get up for eating the pre-dawn meal, the Suhoor. Sehar Khan, the traditional human alarm clock chants the hymns and rouses people for Waqt-e-Sahar (pre-dawn meal) while beating a drum to wake the believers up. Abdul Gani, the Sahar Khan, while beating his drum loud and fast in the lanes and by-lanes of Pulwama…
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