PESHAWAR: Pashto singer from Swat Nazia Iqbal will launch her new music album which unlike the ones released in the past has Urdu songs. Shooting videos for her new album on an ornate stage in a hall ...

SWABI, March 13: Renowned Urdu vocalist Zafar Mehdi kept music lovers spellbound during a ‘ghazal night’ here by presenting his hit numbers and poems of classic and modern poets. He received loud ...

The father of Urdu ghazal and Chaucer of Urdu poetry in India, Shah Muhammad Waliullah or Wali Gujarati, lies here in the city. For the last 13 years, his grave has lain partially beneath a road ...

When Shakeel Badayuni wrote the song Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya for Mughal-e-Azam, director K Asif made him rewrite it nearly a hundred times until each word shone like a gem. “We hum these songs ...

Noted lyricist-poet Gulzar says that contrary to the belief that Urdu is dying, the language is alive and moving ahead with time. "Urdu is alive the same way it was earlier and it is alive with the ...

Talent has prompted four youngsters to pool their energies to produce videos that could serve as their launching pad into the world of popular Urdu music. The group - a lyricist and three singers- has ...

Though we may be living fast-paced lives in the time of technology and electronic music, one cannot completely turn a blind eye to the rich literary history that India has been gifted with. To remind ...

From mushairas and qawwali parties to Pakistani soaps and Urdu poetry on TV, the language is making a quiet comeback with a new generation, new modes and new mediums. It's a crisp winter evening and a ...

MUSIC has a long history in the subcontinent. A large number of books were written on music here and till the revolution of 1857 most of them were in Persian as it was the language used in most of the ...

When Shakeel Badayuni wrote the song Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya for Mughal-e-Azam, director K Asif made him rewrite it nearly a hundred times until each word shone like a gem. “We hum these songs ...