It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...
Your all-time favourite ghazals are readily available for viewing on YouTube. You can also visit Gaana.com, Wynkmusic and Saregama apps and listen to ghazal songs online.
Shad Naved’s The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History is a long-awaited study. This book has been anticipated not only as an important scholarly intervention but also as a distillation of Naved’s ...
GHAZAL, the most popular genre of Urdu’s lyrical poetry, has not only survived attacks from critics but has in fact grown in popularity. Originating from Arabic ‘qaseeda’, or panegyric ode, ghazal ...
On a night of love and longing, where lonesome becomes a close friend, Ghazals provide you with companionship like no other. They hold a unique and cherished position in the realm of music, capable of ...
Though ghazal has always been an integral part of Talat Aziz’s life, the veteran singer has spent the last few months researching and working on the nuances of Begum Akhtar’s music. Why? He is part of ...
When you utter the word ‘ghazal’, what comes to mind are the timeless verses of Mirza Ghalib and the haunting voices of Mehdi Hasan, Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali, and Jagjit Singh. Ghazal is a ...
Many a dulcet female voice has graced a mehfil of ghazal across the sub-continent and beyond, for decades. Singers like Farida Khanum, Begum Akhtar, Chitra Singh, Iqbal Bano and Nayyara Noor have made ...