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 ...

Ghazal Paris was established in 2019 by Houda Gianasso and boy does she deliver in footwear design. The shoes are crafted in Italy with love, and when it comes to silhouettes there’s a whole range to ...

Bhupinder Singh and Mitali Singh are two of the most popular ghazal singers in the country. Incidentally, Bhupinder also has many Bollywood hits — like Ek akela is shehar mein, Dil dhoondhta hai and ...

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.

Though ghazal has always been an integral part of Talat Aziz’s life, the veteran singer has spent the last few months researching and working on the nuances of Begum Akhtar’s music. Why? He is part of ...

GHAZAL, the most popular genre of Urdu’s lyrical poetry, has not only survived attacks from critics but has in fact grown in popularity. Originating from Arabic ‘qaseeda’, or panegyric ode, ghazal ...