Besides soulful film and non-film tracks, a genre of music that’s extremely close to singer Papon’s heart is ghazal. An integral part of all his concert setlists, the musician admits that a large ...

Actress Gazal Rai has become a proud mother to a baby boy. Her bundle of joy arrived a day after the auspicious festival of Krishna Janmashtami. Gazal fondly calls him her little Kanha. She tells us, ...

CHENNAI, (IANS) – Renowned singer Hariharan, who has graced the music industry with over 500 Tamil and 200 Hindi songs, along with more than 30 ghazal albums, is now at a point in his life where he ...

To my ears, the sound of the Urdu language and the ghazal were the most enticing when I was in my teens, even though I could not understand most of the words. I had no idea that the couplet had a form ...

Mastering the Urdu language, known for its intricate beauty and poetic depth, is a feat for any non-native speaker. For Malayali playback singer Gayatri Asokan, this tough journey went even further; ...

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 ...

Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by nuancing the larger context and stretching ...