Doha: Pakistan Association Qatar (PAQ) recently organised an event for launching the first-ever Audio CD of any Qatar-based Urdu poet composed in Mumbai. Asif Shafi, a renowned Urdu poet, based in ...

Pakistani musician Arooj Aftab is no stranger to the decadence of cultural heritage in musical imagination. After all, she has used Urdu ghazals and idioms frequently in her music in the past. Her ...

Irrfan Khan starrer Karwaan features a song with a weird mixture of Urdu and English lyrics that can be the next cool ghazal for gen next. The song, Heartquake, aims to make anyone believe that ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan is, in her own words, “part love letter to Urdu… and part manual for the craft of ghazal.” Writing in English, the author feels that the ghazal has the ...

As a port city, Kochi has been a welcoming anchor for diverse cultures for over 500 years. Seafarers, traders, travellers and conquerors have given the city as many as 30 languages. So it wasn’t ...

The most popular expression of poetry in Urdu and Persian, the ghazal, is known as much as a poetic form as it is as a genre of music. The ghazal has roots in seventh century Arabia and gained ...