Do you know how many languages are officially recognised by the constitution of India? India officially recognises 22 ...

Muzaffar Ali is a man who wears several hats. The filmmaker, designer, author, artist, and a cultural and social activist, ...

Drawn to Mirza Hadi Ruswa's 19th-century novel Umrao Jaan Ada that was set during the decadent period of the 1840s, Ali envisioned a film that would unfold like a melancholic ghazal ... a different ...

Pratibha Singh Baghel is all set to bring Dastaan-E-Ghazal to Hyderabad on June 21 at Shilpakala Vedika, and she couldn’t be ...

(Web Desk) - Thirteen years have passed since the demise of ‘Shehenshah-e-Ghazal’ Mehdi Hassan as his fans are set to observe ...

The closed-minded Victorian morality of the British was inevitably accepted by the Indian elite; they believed that tawaifs were polluting Indian culture. When some of the courtesans asked to be ...

Can a culture survive as a way of life, even as the language and writing at its core, alter with time? Can we be rational and ...

Divide, But Music Doesn’t Listen In a world fragmented by borders, conflicts, and barbed-wire politics, few things flow as freely and fearlessly as music. And perhaps no story captures this quiet ...

In the midst of geopolitics and guard duty, there was this beautiful backchannel of brotherhood. A cassette of Mehdi Hassan. A ghazal from Noor Jehan. A Farida Khanum recording passed across with a ...

Over time, this new hybrid language became more structured and was increasingly used in literature, poetry, and everyday communication. How It Entered The Indian Subcontinent. Urdu found its most ...

Shaan's Ghazal Album: Discover why Indian singer Shaan collaborates with Dubai poet Amaan Haider Zaidi for his debut ghazal album.

Poetry has always been more than just an art form in the Islamic tradition, it is a bridge between the heart and the Divine, a vessel for devotion, and a reflection of the soul's deepest longings.