KIRAN AHLUWALIA , MARY JANE LAMOND and SHAHID ALI KHAN with RAZ ABBASI , ASHOK BIDAYE , RICH BROWN , KELLY HOOD , MUBASHAR JAFRI , WENDY MacISAAC and RAVI NAIMPALLY as part of EAST MEETS EAST at the ...

Jamshedpur, Jan. 18: Ghazal lovers who do not have good command over Urdu have reasons to cheer. City-based litterateur Syed Rizwanul Haque has translated 99 all-time hits into English. From Aamir ...

Many a dulcet female voice has graced a mehfil of ghazal across the sub-continent and beyond, for decades. Singers like Farida Khanum, Begum Akhtar, Chitra Singh, Iqbal Bano and Nayyara Noor have made ...

Across centuries and faiths, the words of Sufi saints and the mystical poets have travelled through music, poetry, and oral ...

Epic filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali who also composes the music for his films, is all set to release his first independent non-film album. Containing 12 Ghazals sung by various artistes including ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: Padma Shri Pankaj Udhas will be in Hyderabad for his live concert Jazbaa – Dilon ko dilon se jodne ka this weekend. CE speaks with the artist about his four decade-long journey, love for ...

In our ongoing series on tabla accompaniment to Hindustani music and dance, we have looked closely at the tabla in the context of khayal, dhamaar, thumri and its allied forms, and tarana. Today, we ...

Forty-one-year-old award winning renowned ghazal singer Muhammad Wakeel is all set to release his brand new single titled “Falsafa” under singer and songwriter Daler Mehndi record label DRecords.