Mohammed Vakil has collaborated with celebrated poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar for the ghazal single Bazahir Kya Hai. The singer ...

Ghazals are evergreen. A mesmerising blend of poetry, intense thoughts and simple melody, they can never go out of fashion. But when was the last time you heard them in a Bollywood film? Or for that ...

Mehdi Hassan, arguably the greatest ghazal singer, passed away at a Karachi hospital on Wednesday, ravaged by failing lungs and a host of other ailments, leaving music lovers in both India and ...

His soulful renditions of ghazals, or traditional love poems, were featured on the soundtracks of hit Bollywood movies and moved generations of Indians. By Suhasini Raj and John Yoon Suhasini Raj ...

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 ...