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 ...

It is famously said that there are two poets of the Urdu language who had the honour of kids being named after them, one of them is obviously Iqbal, and the other, Faraz. Born Ahmed Shah and pen-named ...

A form of singing that travelled form the salons of courtesans to a more serious form of musical expression Mir Taqi Mir who passed away in the month of September in 1810 was not only one of the ...

Think of celebrated ghazal singers, and Pankaj Udhas’s name would certainly be among the top few. His tracks, ‘Chitthi aayi hai’ and ‘Chandi jaisa rang hai tera,’ among others, have kept music lovers ...

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.

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 ...

Ghazal maestro Pankaj Udhas died at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai today after a prolonged illness, he was 72. The singer left behind a legacy that will forever resonate in the hearts of music ...

Iqbal Bano took Indo-Pakistani vocal artistry to new heights by combining traditionalism and modernism in one of the most venerated and complex of vocal poetry forms. Her chosen medium was ghazal, an ...