I first encountered Ghalib in the early 1970s. I was in graduate school, studying poetry. Then, as now, I had no Urdu. The medium of transmission—translation—was Aijaz Ahmad’s Ghazals of Ghalib, from ...

In the course of my journey with Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s Divans, I noticed how he carefully chose verses from his ghazals when he made the selection for publication. For example, the very first ...

Ghalib became a favourite with the singers after he was accepted as a leading poet. This process started with the publication of a pocket edition from Berlin in 1925, very beautifully printed on thick ...

Ghalib’s words sometimes burn with such fervour that they char themselves in a darkened light, and when they seem to make sense after a delicious wait, they burn the listener too. One has to listen to ...

Mirza Ghalib, who died on February 15, 1869, was a powerful, eloquent and erudite poet who investigated and captured life’s experiences and occurrences with capering humour in his enigmatic ghazals.

(These ideas visit the imagination from the beyond: in the scratchings of the reed pen (I hear) the angel’s song.) In this couplet, Ghalib expresses the age-old belief that the provenance of poetry is ...

A new book on Mirza Ghalib seeks to present the intellectual evolution of the celebrated poet through an interpretation of his couplets. One of the most oft-quoted poets of the 19th century, the works ...

That is Mirza Ghalib, praising Mirza Ghalib but in the third person. Arrogance is not a quality you look for in a person but it sits lightly on the shoulders of Mirza Ghalib, the poet par excellence ...

Urdu poetry is making inroads into Poland, with the ghazals of renowned 19th century poet Mirza Ghalib being translated into Polish. HT Image Anil Wadhwa, India's ambassador to Poland, released a ...

Hindustani poetry is slowly but steadily becoming a topic of discussion among many young professionals in the city. Mera Salaam Kahiyo is one such show by three professionals whose aim to showcase the ...