A professional lip reader has stirred international headlines after decoding a tense moment between French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron during their Vietnam visit. In a ...

Ghazals are evergreen. A mesmerising blend of poetry, intense thoughts and simple melody, they can never go out of fashion. But when was the last time you heard them in a Bollywood film? Or for that ...

Ali Shir Navai (left) exposed Persian ghazals to the extinct Chagatai language and Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah (right) was an early practitioner of Urdu ghazals in India The trajectory of the ghazal is ...

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 ...

When you utter the word ‘ghazal’, what comes to mind are the timeless verses of Mirza Ghalib and the haunting voices of Mehdi Hasan, Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali, and Jagjit Singh. Ghazal is a ...

Aalok Shrivastav aspired to be a writer from an early age, much to the disappointment of his father All photos by Amit Datta Aalok Shrivastav has carved a niche for himself in the world of arts. Known ...