The event, organised by the Sabhyata Foundation – a Smarak Sarathi under the ‘Adopt a Heritage 2.0’ initiative – in ...

At Sur Aur Saaz, popular ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas is teaming up with percussion maestro Trilok Gurtu for the first time, and a jugalbandi is in the offing. The former will sing ghazals to go with ...

Ghazals are evergreen. A mesmerising blend of poetry, intense thoughts and simple melody, they can never go out of fashion. But when was the last time you heard them in a Bollywood film? Or for that ...

Ghazals like ‘jhuki jhuki si nazar’ and ‘hothon se chhoo lo tum’ belong to that rich repository of Bollywood songs that just refuse to get old. Yet, in the last few years, Hindi cinema seems to have ...

Pankaj Udhas, a renowned ghazal exponent known for blending a Sufi style of rendition with Indian classical music and then delivering it as pop that vividly expressed themes of life, love and longing, ...

Coke Studio Bangla Season 2 is back with yet another magical composition — Darale Duaarey. It is a melodious ghazal penned and composed by Kazi Nazrul Islam, which has been sung by Mukul Mojumder ...

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 ...