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 ...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit returned to Juba on Friday after concluding a week-long visit to the Bahr el Ghazal region, ...

A form of singing that travelled form the salons of courtesans to a more serious form of musical expression Mir Taqi Mir who passed away in the month of September in 1810 was not only one of the ...

Think of celebrated ghazal singers, and Pankaj Udhas’s name would certainly be among the top few. His tracks, ‘Chitthi aayi hai’ and ‘Chandi jaisa rang hai tera,’ among others, have kept music lovers ...

It is famously said that there are two poets of the Urdu language who had the honour of kids being named after them, one of them is obviously Iqbal, and the other, Faraz. Born Ahmed Shah and pen-named ...

Using repetition to splice two genres – the oriental ghazal and the blues – this humorous offering demonstrates the poet's joy in language and form There's always a wealth of interesting new writing ...

This is an excerpt from the Preface to Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals, selected, edited and translated by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India, detailing the journey of ...

Your all-time favourite ghazals are readily available for viewing on YouTube. You can also visit Gaana.com, Wynkmusic and Saregama apps and listen to ghazal songs online.