![]() ![]() One can safely conclude that were it not for vocal music, poetry would not have enjoyed the wide popularity it does now. There was a stall near the entrance where these books were on sale. Some of them carried a pocket book that listed words that recur in ghazals with their meanings in Gujarati. Way back in the mid-60s, I attended a ghazal evening in Bombay where most members of the audience were Gujarati speaking. The venue was in a region where people don’t understand Hindi, let alone Urdu. Every seat in the hall was occupied and there was hardly any space to walk because some of his diehard fans were sitting on the floor. That was the time when the South Indian celebrity hardly understood Urdu.īy sheer coincidence, the last public performance of the late legendary exponent of ghazal gayeki, Mehdi Hasan, was in Kerala. “I have grown up listening to Mehdi Hasan,” said the Academy Award-winning composer A.
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