Re: Why this dearth of appreciation/acknowledgment in our society?
oh by the way do you know Sain Zahoor ?
He won BBC music award for Asia Pacafic two years in a row and guess what He is a pakistani lives in pakistan. And he popular because of pakistanis who listen to folk music like it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2006/a4wm_zahoor.shtml