He adds, “The trauma and ecstasy she experienced in life reflect in her voice and renditions. I can’t replicate that, but I have tried to understand her feelings and reproduce them in my voice, ...

Famous ghazal singer Talat Aziz says contrary to popular perception, ghazal as a genre is alive and kicking. As proof, he says, is the success of his concerts across the nation. Ghazal maestro Talat ...

This is an excerpt from the Preface to Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals, selected, edited and translated by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India, detailing the journey of ...

The most popular form of Hindustani music in its vocal variety, the ghazal, shares both its literary and musical features, and presents a rather complex picture as far as its evolution is concerned.

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 ...

Andrew McMillan explores the recent resurgence in formal poetry. This week: the history of the ghazal and how to write a modern one. With poet and academic, Aviva Dautch. Show more In this series, ...