Kannada ghazals will reverberate during the 79th All-India Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, the three-day event beginning in Bijapur on February 9. BANGALORE: Kannada ghazals will reverberate during the 79th ...
The NDTV Creators Manch witnessed an evening of powerful poetry as renowned poets and shayars came together to celebrate the ...
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 ...
Even though ghazal meastro Pankaj Udhas has completed 40 years in the music industry, he says it doesn’t feel like it. “God is kind that I find something new and exciting everyday,” says the singer, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...