One of the singular characteristics of the scores of ghazals that Jagjit Singh sang in his illustrious career was the choice of poets picked up by him to sing their nazms. Each of his successful ...

Hain aur bhi duniya mein sukhan-var bahut achchhe, kahte hain Ghalib ka andaz-e-bayan aur. Naseeruddin Shah as Mirza Ghalib in a still from Gulzar’s TV series. That is Mirza Ghalib, praising Mirza ...

Over the past week, social media channels have been bristling and buzzing with audio and video posts by a multitude of Jagjit Singh fans. If he were alive, India’s greatest ghazal singer would have ...

Earlier the pride of classical singers like Mehdi Hasan, Begum Akhtar and Angoori Bai and patronised by the erudite, the ghazal was brought into our drawing rooms through radio, LPs and televisions, ...

Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh (8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011), was a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, songwriter and musician. Known as the "Ghazal King", he gained acclaim together with his ...

Veteran Urdu poet Bashir Badr once shared a “secret”. He said: “I have one enemy — his name is Jagjit. Whatever is mine (poetry), people think it is his (when he sings it). That is why I never ...