Composed by Kaushal Inamdar, the qawwali ‘Ae Sanam’ is a prime attraction of the upcoming film Ranga Patanga. Few months back, I had found this ghazal written by Ilahi Jamadar and after reading the ...

She broke into the male bastion of qawwali singing several years ago and continues to enthral music lovers. Singer-composer Nisa Azeezi, 54, is among the recipients of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka ...

For over 700 years, Qawwali music has entranced audiences throughout the world. Asia Society welcomes back the Riyaaz Qawwali ensemble as they apply this energetic musical form to ancient ghazal Urdu ...

New Delhi, Nov 27 (PTI) With a wide-ranging line-up ofmushairas, panel discussions and book exhibitions, the fourthedition of the much-loved Urdu festival -- Jashn-e-Rekhta, isall set to begin from ...

The annual four-day Urdu Heritage Festival returned to the Capital on Thursday, offering a plethora of cultural events, ghazal and qawwali performances as hundreds of people crowded the Central Park ...

Actor Ali Fazal has been educating himself about the well-known ghazals of his hometown Lucknow. Incidentally, it was Ali’s uncle Rizwan Saeed, who introduced him to the maestro of qawwali, Habib ...

Mumbai: Zubair Azmi, director of Urdu Markaz, a literary and cultural organisation promoting Urdu language, calls Bhindi Bazaar “the cultural hub of erstwhile Bombay.” It is where the who’s who of ...

MUMBAI, (IANS) – Actor Gurmeet Choudhary and Giorgia Andriani have come together for a new single titled ‘Dil Jisse Zinda Hain’ which hit the airwaves on November 18. The song has been sung by ...