This week Gadkari Rangayatan witnessed a colourful programme Ashdh Ghazalancha which was appreciated by a lot of people. This week Gadkari Rangayatan witnessed a colourful programme Ashdh Ghazalancha ...

A recently surfaced video clip featuring legendary ghazal singers Farida Khanum and Ghulam Ali performing the iconic song "Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo" has gone viral. This particular ghazal holds a ...

Mohammed Vakil performing ‘Ghazal Ka Safar’ at Sur-Tal music festival in Jaipur Mohammed Vakil performing ‘Ghazal Ka Safar’ at Sur-Tal music festival in Jaipur Photo Caption: Mohammed Vakil performing ...

Ahead of his performance in Delhi on Friday, the ghazal maestro from Pakistan Ghulam Ali tells HT why he loves performing for Delhiites. Legendary Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali Khan, who completed 62 ...

The publications, ‘Sukhan Nishani Ishq Ki’ and ‘Rang Khabeeda Paray Hain’, represent the two most important and popular genres of Urdu literature, ‘ghazal’ and ‘nazm’, respectively. Iqtidar Javed 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 ...

(These ideas visit the imagination from the beyond: in the scratchings of the reed pen (I hear) the angel’s song.) In this couplet, Ghalib expresses the age-old belief that the provenance of poetry is ...