Daniele Speziale, 27, known as Rahi Italvi, works at the visa application centre in Kolkata and performs Urdu ghazals across the city Daniele Speziale, 27, also known as Rahi Italvi When 27-year-old ...

Through the looking glass: Nearly three decades after its US patent date, the MP3 is no longer the cutting edge of audio compression. Yet support for it remains ubiquitous in media players, browsers, ...

The event, organised by the Sabhyata Foundation – a Smarak Sarathi under the ‘Adopt a Heritage 2.0’ initiative – in collaboration with Serendipity Arts, was curated by tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh.

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 ...

Mamaearth co-founder Ghazal Alagh's shared a message for aspiring entrepreneurs, advocating for a focus on solving real problems to achieve lasting impact in the market.(Ghazal Alagh @LinkedIn) In the ...

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 ...

No lover is to be seen around. The cap wearers have killed indiscriminately. In 1839, the French Orientalist Garcin de Tassy penned a literary history of Hindavi and Hindustani poetry. Tassy’s ...

Imagine a small stage, no crowds, or smoke machines—just a small group of poetry and qawwali enthusiasts sitting around, waiting for a sarangi to begin. This setting could have people visualising a ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rizwan and Muazzam Ali Khan were never meant to be musicians. Although they are the nephews of the Qawwali ...