Today (October 30) is the 50th death anniversary of Mallika-e-Ghazal Begum Akhtar. German poet Rilke had said, “Cut these sentences and they bleed.” One can say the same about Akhtar’s music.

An admirer of Begum Akhtar, Malini Awasthi — who was in Amritsar to perform at the third edition of Sacred Amritsar festival — says the literary richness of the ghazal singer’s renditions elevated ...

Talat Aziz renders 13 of Begum Akhtar’s classic ghazals and thumris. In an exclusive interview with Zoom, Padmini opened up about the responsibility of playing a real-life character on stage.