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; ...

fter the emergence of Pakistan, some of the classical forms of music suffered a great decline in listenership. The reasons may have been many, including the rise of film music, the focus on the ...

It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Baker of Tarifa based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al-Andalus won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ...

The veteran singer remembers the days when the genre ruled the roost; says he will sing for Bollywood films again if good offers come his way. Think of celebrated ghazal singers, and Pankaj Udhas’s ...

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 ...

THE word ghazal is derived from an Arabic root and it means ‘to talk amorously to women’. According to some scholars, ghazal also means ‘a doleful cry of pain uttered by a deer when surrounded by ...

The most popular expression of poetry in Urdu and Persian, the ghazal, is known as much as a poetic form as it is as a genre of music. The ghazal has roots in seventh century Arabia and gained ...

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 ...