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 ...

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 ...

Across centuries and faiths, the words of Sufi saints and the mystical poets have travelled through music, poetry, and oral storytelling — and now they form the centrepiece of an evening that blends ...

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 ...

Hyderabad holds a special place in Hariharan’s heart. “It’s the hub of Urdu in the South, home to incredible poets and singers. Performing here is always a pleasure,” says the Padma Shri and National ...

On his 154th death anniversary, three of Zafar’s ghazals reflect his awareness of a lack of power in matters of state. Bahadur Shah Zafar II (October 24, 1775-November 7, 1862), the last Mughal king ...