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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Ghazal singers, Ghazal songs, Hariharan albums, Ahmed Faraz, Begum Akhtar, Mehdi Hassan, Talat Mahmood, Friedrich Ruckert, Talat Aziz, Runa Laila, Shayari, Pankaj Udhas, Ahmad Wali, Agha Shahid Ali, Habib Wali Mohammad, Roshan Ara Begum, Vikram Singh, Chitra Singh, Cassius Khan, Mahwash, Munni Begum, Anup Jalota, Mohammad Hussain Sarahang, Ghulam Abbas Khan, Lahore Ke Rang Hari Ke Sang, Rahim Bakhsh, Asif Mehdi, Vithal Rao, Kaash, Aabshar-e-Ghazal, Zahir Howaida, Waqt Par Bolna, Aathwan Sur - The Other Side of Naushad, Shafqat Ali Khan, Mehnaz, Kuch Door Hamare Saath, My Favourite Hits, Hazir, Halka Nasha, Gulfam, Maqta, Qaraar, Dil Nasheen, The Great Ghazals, Jashn, Dil Ki Baat, Hariharan in Concert, Intoxicating Hariharan, Dil Aisa Kisi Ne Mera Toda, Visaal - Ghazals for Connoisseurs, Beher, Lafzz, Radif, Qaafiyaa, Swar Utsav, Master Madan, Sukoon, Saptarishi, Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa, Matla, Hariharan - Down the Years, Reflections, The Very Best of Hariharan Ghazals, Ghazal Ka Mausam, Ranjish Hi Sahi, Dasht e Tanhai, Kal Chaudhvin Ki Raat Thi, Chupke Chupke Raat Din, Gaisu e Tabdar Ko, Afreen Afreen. Excerpt: The gazal (Arabic/Bengali/Pashto/Persian/Urdu: Turkish: ) is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century Arabic verse. It is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. In its style and content it is a genre which has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation. It is one of the principal poetic forms which the In...