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 ...
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 ...
He adds, “The trauma and ecstasy she experienced in life reflect in her voice and renditions. I can’t replicate that, but I have tried to understand her feelings and reproduce them in my voice, ...
With ‘Aahat’, ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas created a sensation in the ghazal world 41 years back and still he is all out to adapt to contemporary ways and modern techniques. With ‘Aahat’, ghazal singer ...
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‘Ghazals Express More Than Just Sadness’: Icons Gulzar And Jagjit Singh On Ghazal Genre’s Evolution!
The iconic duo of Gulzar and Jagjit Singh, known for their individual brilliance in poetry and music, came together in 2006 to create the timeless album Koi Baat Chale. Their collaboration brought a ...
TOI brings you a list of his most popular ghazals while remembering the ghazal maestro: Jagjit Singh, who passed away on Monday morning in a Mumbai hospital, mingled ghazals with Bollywood like none ...
Under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, Bazm-Urdu-Qatar (BUQ) organised a launch ceremony of Doha-based poetess Samreen Nadeem Samar's collection of ghazals, 'Khusboo-e-Khayal' and a poetry ...
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