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 ...

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 ...

LAHORE: Technology has made the lifestyle of many evolve but there are some things that just don’t change with time. Ghazal nights are one such thing. No matter how busy everyone gets, no matter how ...

TOI brings you a list of his most popular ghazals while remembering the ghazal maestro: Jagjit Singh, who passed away on Monday morning in a Mumbai hospital, mingled ghazals with Bollywood like none ...

The lilting melodies of Jhuki jhuki si nazar and Chupke chupke raat din never fail to impress music buffs even today, but the popular ghazal genre seems to have taken a backseat in Bollywood. The ...

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, ...

Ali Shir Navai (left) exposed Persian ghazals to the extinct Chagatai language and Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah (right) was an early practitioner of Urdu ghazals in India The trajectory of the ghazal is ...

When one thinks of Ghazal, it is natural to picture a voice carrying the weight of ages, each word draped in solemnity and depth, commanding reverence with its serious, heavy tones. Then came a song, ...