Doha: Pakistan Association Qatar (PAQ) recently organised an event for launching the first-ever Audio CD of any Qatar-based Urdu poet composed in Mumbai. Asif Shafi, a renowned Urdu poet, based in ...

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.

For the millennials, a Jagjit Singh playlist will begin with “Koi Fariyaad” from Tum Bin. And for a generation before that, it can be “Tum Itna Jo” from Arth. The two movies might be over two decades ...

INTIKHAB-E-KALAM: NAZIR AKBARABADI BY MUHAMMAD REZA KAZIMI — this selection contains the best poems by Nazir Akbarabadi, a poet unique in the tradition of Urdu poetry. While mainstream Urdu poets ...

Pakistani musician Arooj Aftab is no stranger to the decadence of cultural heritage in musical imagination. After all, she has used Urdu ghazals and idioms frequently in her music in the past. Her ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan is, in her own words, “part love letter to Urdu… and part manual for the craft of ghazal.” Writing in English, the author feels that the ghazal has the ...

As a port city, Kochi has been a welcoming anchor for diverse cultures for over 500 years. Seafarers, traders, travellers and conquerors have given the city as many as 30 languages. So it wasn’t ...

September 6, 2018. A historic day for queer Indians and their allies. The Supreme Court decriminalises homosexuality. My friends and I celebrate by getting a cake with Azadi piped on it in white icing ...