Singer and composer Papon has started a new chapter in life, rendering ghazals.

For 20 years, the idea has lived within Papon. When he finally began working on Mehfilz with Papon, it took eight years of him — the songs, collaborating with lyricist Irshad Kamil, and giving a new ...

Pankaj Udhas' name is synonymous with ghazals. The Padma Shri recipient and playback singer breathed his last at 72 on Monday. His family said the singer died after a prolonged illness. (Also Read: ...

"Harf-e-Mustaar" by Satish Jha asks if classical ghazal can still bear the weight of our shared promises, memory, and ...

At a time when music is increasingly driven by algorithms, fleeting trends and instant gratification, singer, composer and producer Nisschal Zaveri is taking a refreshingly ...

Late Ghazal Maestro Jagjit Singh ‘s death anniversary happens to be today. The popular ghazal singer, born on February 8, 1941 as Jagmohan Singh, not only made ghazal popular with the masses but ...

When you utter the word ‘ghazal’, what comes to mind are the timeless verses of Mirza Ghalib and the haunting voices of Mehdi Hasan, Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali, and Jagjit Singh. Ghazal is a ...

The noted Urdu poet Nida Fazli, who died in Mumbai on Monday, was known to his readers for his elegant presentation and exclusive use of colloquial language for ghazals, dohaas and nazms. To him goes ...

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 ...