Poets/Writers From West Bengal

Firdausi Begum was a celebrated singer of India. Her teachers in music were Ustaad Munir Husain Khan, Ustaad Mohammad Husain Khan and Ustaad Mastaan Gama.

Apart from active literary journalist, fiction writer, critic and translator and travel writer

Farida Khanum, also known as Malika-e-Ghazal is a classical singer from Pakistan. She has been trained in Khayal, Thumri and Dadra genres by Ustad Aashiq Ali Khan.