Ghazal singer Jaswinder Singh may often be mistaken for a pop singer, but he's very sure he doesn't want to have much to with the balle balle. A protège of Jagjit Singh, Jaswinder sings a melodious ...
Cinema music has always prevailed but ghazals have been part of our very old tradition: Pankaj Udhas
Even though ghazal meastro Pankaj Udhas has completed 40 years in the music industry, he says it doesn’t feel like it. “God is kind that I find something new and exciting everyday,” says the singer, ...
Singer Talat Aziz feels that the ghazals from the golden era of ’80s and ’90s can never be replicated. On his recent visit to Lucknow, he remembers poets Bashir Badr, Nida Fazli, Qateel Shifai and ...
Ghazals are poems made up of two-line verses (bayt). Broadly speaking, they are poems about love — physical or divine, literal or metaphoric. The topic of love is transcendental, with infinite ...
In American popular music, especially country and the blues, there is an entire genre known lovingly as "drinking songs". They are songs about having too much booze and the pub with no beer. The ...
She tells CS, “I love ghazals and wanted to do something to bring in young listeners to the world of ghazals. My band and I have worked on some old ghazals with a new sound. How do you like the new ...
In her Mumbai apartment late at night, Mansvi Saxena (20) plays Mehdi Hassan’s ghazal Mujhe Tum Nazar Se, a song her mother once played on repeat after losing her father. On a long bus ride, Saahil ...
Ghazal is an exquisite gift to human beings. From among the various forms that it takes, Urdu poetry reaches the Uurooj (peak) with Ghazal, owing to the magical and addictive qualities of its ...
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