At first hearing, it feels like a couple separated by misunderstanding. Two people who travelled together but never found ...

As ghazal singer Shailly Kapoor prepares to perform An Evening of Ghazals of Mirza Ghalib in Hyderabad on June 6, the city is ...

Pankaj Udhas' name is synonymous with ghazals. The Padma Shri recipient and playback singer breathed his last at 72 on Monday. His family said the singer died after a prolonged illness. (Also Read: ...

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 ...

Some musical journeys begin with formal training. Others begin with inheritance. For singer Papon, ghazals arrived through ...

It was music that made Raaza Razaq and Imthiyas Beegum a couple. Better known as Raaza Beegum or Raaza and Beegum in the music circle, the husband-wife duo will perform in the city on March 9. Raaza ...

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 ...

Ali Shir Navai (left) exposed Persian ghazals to the extinct Chagatai language and Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah (right) was an early practitioner of Urdu ghazals in India The trajectory of the ghazal is ...

Late Ghazal Maestro Jagjit Singh ‘s death anniversary happens to be today. The popular ghazal singer, born on February 8, 1941 as Jagmohan Singh, not only made ghazal popular with the masses but ...

The noted Urdu poet Nida Fazli, who died in Mumbai on Monday, was known to his readers for his elegant presentation and exclusive use of colloquial language for ghazals, dohaas and nazms. To him goes ...