If Jagjit Singh’s Ghazals Were Penned in the Times of Social Media

Some of Jagjit Singh’s iconic ghazals with a twist of social media.

Jagjit Singh’s ghazals always take us back to the times when romance was innocent and love wasn’t as ‘complicated’ as it is in the age of Facebook and Twitter. Today, the keyboard is mightier than the pen. So if the new generation were to interpret some of his lovestruck melodies, here’s what they would sound like.

(This story is from The Quint’s archives. It is being republished to mark Jagjit Singh’s birth anniversary.)