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Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king

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· Nov 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

Fiction does justice to the remarkable life of the singer Janki Bai in a way that history has not

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· Oct 21, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘It is the story of India itself’: Abdullah Khan on a debut novel that was 20 years in the making

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· Sep 22, 2018 · 08:30 am

How Kerala came to embrace the unfamiliar musical genre of ghazals

Malini Nair

· Aug 28, 2018 · 11:30 am

He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

In Fanney Khan’s remixed ‘Badan Pe Sitare’, the real Mohammed Rafi fan is behind the scenes

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· Aug 01, 2018 · 07:30 pm

From Urdu to English: Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi chronicles his journey

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· Jun 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

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· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

Listen: A sombre rendition of the usually upbeat Kaharvaa taal, to mirror these sombre times

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· Apr 14, 2018 · 05:30 am

Google celebrates poet Mirza Ghalib’s 220th birth anniversary with a doodle

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· Dec 27, 2017 · 07:46 am

How the decline of Pakistani film music led to the rise of ghazals and pop

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· Dec 10, 2017 · 11:30 am

Coke Studio Pakistan has lost its way – and Hindi film music is partly to blame for it

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· Nov 16, 2017 · 03:30 pm

How the ghazal lost its rigidity to become a popular expression of love and longing

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· Oct 01, 2017 · 11:30 am

For disco dandiya pioneer Babla, it has always been about the beat

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· Sep 25, 2017 · 08:15 am

Mumbai weekend cultural calendar: Underground Bookhouse; Comedy Mayhem and more

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· Sep 15, 2017 · 01:45 pm

This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history

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· Sep 09, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Why is Persian dying out in India, despite its deep roots? An Iranian finds the answer in Kolkata

Maryam Papi

· Sep 07, 2017 · 11:30 am

When Dilli’s festivals belonged neither to Hindus nor to Muslims alone, but to both

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· Sep 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

Mumbai weekend cultural calendar: Dhobi Tales, White Wall screenings, and more

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· Sep 01, 2017 · 12:00 pm