We enjoyed ghazals at Anil Uncle’s house last weekend… A ghazal (pronounced just like “guzzle”) is an “Urdu poem, vocal song style” (courtesy of Google Web Definitions). Basically it’s Urdu poetry that is sung. I love the music but can’t claim to have anything more than a broken understanding of the underlying poetry. Shonali, on the other hand, eats and breathes this stuff. Two photographs of the living room (there were two other rooms in Uncle’s house where people were hanging out, eating, talking… it was great):