The oldest Gujarati ghazal poet Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as Asim Randeri, died of old age in Rander area of the city yesterday. The oldest Gujarati ghazal poet Subedar ...

Mellifluous Mohammed Rafi once sang -‘Divaso judai na jay chhe ae jasey jaroor milan sudhi.’ Few know that these lyrics were penned by a Surti ghazalkaar- Abdul Gani Dahiwala. The Persian form of ...

Hailing from Gujarat, Pankaj Udhas` mother tongue was neither Urdu nor Hindi Listening to ghazals on the radio as a kid would excite him He fell in love with Urdu after moving to Mumbai Pankaj Udhas' ...

Some city-based Gujarati Gazalkars plan to write the poetry of love online together with their counterparts in Pakistan. "It is an attempt to spread aman and shanti," said Dr. Raeesh Maniar. SURAT: It ...

Join our Whatsapp channel Urdu — once called ‘Lashkari’, a mixture of all the spoken languages of north India — emerged as the region’s lingua franca during the period of Muslim rule in the ...

Ghazal Maestro and Gujarati poet Khalil Dhantejvi died on Sunday in Vadodara due to age-related issues, people close to him informed. Dhantejvi was 82 when he breathed his last. The poet, who was born ...

“I have grown up listening to Mehdi Hasan,” said the Academy Award-winning composer A. R. Rahman in the early years of his career. That was the time when the South Indian celebrity hardly understood ...

On Jagjit Singh's 84th birth anniversary, learn about his and Chitra Singh's unique love story. How did Chitra's first ...