Hindi Gazals

Gazals

In poetry (and as the lyrics in songs), the ghazal (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: غزل; Turkish gazel) is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. The word means “the mortal cry of a “Kastori” doe”. In the Indian sub-continent, it is believed that very rarely (once in hundreds of years)a doe will develop a “Kastori” in her stomach. The “Kastori” is supposed to be a very seductive and appeasingly fragrant organic (vegetable/animal) matter that is so fragrant that its smell will spread throughout the forest. Unfortunately, to access the Kastori, the doe has to be killed and the Kastori extracted from its stomach. The plaintive, mournful mortal cry that the doe makes upon being mortally wounded is what the Ghazal tries to encapture.[citation needed], and also a wild goat, “gazelle”, cf. “Bahr el Ghazal”.

The form is ancient, originating in 10th century Persian verse. It is derived from the Persian qasida. Formally a short lyric composed in a single metre with a single rhyme throughout, in its style and content it is a genre which has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central theme of love. The ghazal is thus itself one of the most striking examples of those successful cultural artefacts, consisting of a seemingly infinitely adaptable combination of essentially simple elements, which are so characteristic of the Persianate civilization of the eastern Islamic world.

The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century under the influence of the new Islamic Sultanate courts and Sufi mystics. Exotic to the region, as is indicated by the very sounds of the name itself when properly pronounced as Ä¡azal, with its very un-Indian initial rolled g. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Urdu poetry, today, it has influenced the poetry of many languages. Some famous ghazals such as Chhaap tilak by Aamir Khusro are in fact written in the Braj Bhasha dialect

A Ghazal, in short, is a collection of couplets (called sher) which follow the rules of Matla, Maqta, Beher, Qafiya, Radif, Khayaal and Wazan. The traditional complete ghazal has a matla, a maqta, and three other shers in between. The first two shers of a ghazal have the form of a qatha (a specific variation of which is a ruba’ee; most familiar to modern readers from Khayyám’s Rubayyat).

Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (13th century) and Hafez (14th century), the Turkish poet Fuzuli (16th century), as well as Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869) and Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), who both wrote Ghazals in Persian and Urdu. Through the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany in the 19th century, and the form was used extensively by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) and August von Platen (1796–1835). The Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali was a proponent of the form, both in English and in other languages; he edited a volume of “real ghazals in English.”

The ghazal is a common song form in India and Pakistan today. Strictly speaking, it is not a musical form, but a poetic recitation. Today, however, it is commonly conceived of as an Urdu song, with prime importance given to the lyrics.

In some modernized ghazals the poet’s name is hidden somewhere in the last verse, usually between the front and end of a word.
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12 Responses to “Hindi Gazals”

  1. Uday Phadnis Says:
    June 6th, 2007 at 10:17 am

    Nice web site. Suggest how to down load these ghazals.

  2. narendra Says:
    September 10th, 2007 at 7:24 pm

    good one

  3. narendra Says:
    September 10th, 2007 at 7:24 pm

    how to down load these

  4. amit Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    the collection is amazing, really it is difficult to create such a big/ large collection.
    thank you very much

  5. Saugata Sarkar Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    The Ghulam Ali collection in your site is very limited. You must have a sub page for Ghulam Ali. Please use following link for Ghulam Ali fans to download and listen Ghulam Ali songs :http://www.muskurahat.com/music/ghazals/ghulam-ali.asp Some outstanding songs are available here and the collection is truly large.

  6. Chatga Says:
    October 6th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    Nice Collection….

  7. Sanjiv Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Nice collection of rare ghazals.
    I especially appreicate putting up Master Madan’s ghazals. The second one “Yu na rah rah kar” link is broken. please update that.

  8. vaishu Says:
    January 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 am

    how to download this songs? i like so much.

  9. Nandana Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    very nice collections.please suggest how to download these songs.

  10. shams Says:
    May 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    very nice collections.i like it.

  11. Mukesh Dutt Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Excellent Collection, please add Ahmed Hussain and Mohammed Hussain’s Ghazals.

  12. Biswas Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    gazals………wow…its my best yar….i enjoy almost 23 hrs in a dayz..really they r d precious for me

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