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Ghazal
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Ghaz´al
n.1.A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.


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Urdu came to be used by the noble and educated classes under the Mughal empire, and its poetry was celebrated in ghazals, devotional love poems accompanied by music--an art that today is in decline.
Growing up in Karachi," he recalled, "I remember the ubiquity of emotion-soaked songs that wailed from street corners, and at night there were ghazals and mushaiaras (poetry readings) on TV; all this while everything else in Pakistan seemed to be falling apart, what with dictators and military regimes.
com users in the US can now listen online as well as personalise a `Playlist' from a selection including Bollywood and Tamil songs to the popular Indipop and the much sought after ghazals and evergreen favourites.
 
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