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 ...

If music is what stirs your spirit, it is difficult to imagine a single day passing without the voice of Hariharan drifting ...

I first encountered Ghalib in the early 1970s. I was in graduate school, studying poetry. Then, as now, I had no Urdu. The medium of transmission—translation—was Aijaz Ahmad’s Ghazals of Ghalib, from ...

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 ...

In her Mumbai apartment late at night, Mansvi Saxena (20) plays Mehdi Hassan’s ghazal Mujhe Tum Nazar Se, a song her mother once played on repeat after losing her father. On a long bus ride, Saahil ...

Mastering the Urdu language, known for its intricate beauty and poetic depth, is a feat for any non-native speaker. For Malayali playback singer Gayatri Asokan, this tough journey went even further; ...

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 ...

Papon captivated Mumbai with a genre-bending concert, seamlessly blending classical ghazals with Bollywood hits and a surprise John Lennon tribute. His performance, marked by reverence for original ...

As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

Fifty years have passed since the death of Dushyant Kumar (September 1, 1933 – December 30, 1975), his 50th death anniversary can be an opportunity to examine his creativity afresh.

Two-time National Award-winning singer Hariharan presented a series of ghazals during an evening full of music at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan on Saturday. Hariharan performing in Lucknow (Deepak Gupta) ...