Veteran lyricist-poet, writer and director Gulzar turns 88 on Thursday. In his career spanning over six decades, he has explored a variety of songs and given words to a plethora of human emotions.

Sampooran Singh Kalra, more famous by his pen name ‘Gulzar’, is renowned as a man and master of letters, in Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi, with over seven decades of rich contributions to the literary arena ...