Many a dulcet female voice has graced a mehfil of ghazal across the sub-continent and beyond, for decades. Singers like Farida Khanum, Begum Akhtar, Chitra Singh, Iqbal Bano and Nayyara Noor have made ...

In A bid to promote young talent, singer Kailash Kher is launching six new musicians with a band called SurFira at the Nehru Centre Auditorium tomorrow at 7pm. The singer says it's his way of giving ...

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.

She tells CS, “I love ghazals and wanted to do something to bring in young listeners to the world of ghazals. My band and I have worked on some old ghazals with a new sound. Download Our App: ...

The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or ...