Say veteran theatre artiste Salim Arif and ghazal singer Tauseef Akhtar, who presented the works of 19th Century Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib to a packed house of poetry lovers in Hyderabad ...

His remark, audacious yet profoundly reflective, declared that India possessed two revealed scriptures — the sacred Vedas and ...

This is the perfect volume for those looking to enter the world of Urdu poetry or Ghalib in particular, without learning Urdu ‘Chaltaa hun thodi duur har ik tez-rau ke saath/pehchaantaa nahin hun abhi ...

KARACHI: Mirza Ghalib, a grand classical Urdu and Persian poet of the subcontinent, played a significant role through his poetry in creating social harmony among the people. Ghalib’s poetry emphasises ...

DISSENTING voices are few and far between when it comes to Ghalib’s poetic genius. But such voices, albeit rare, were quite loud about a century ago and Yagana Changezi was the loudest of them all.

We meet psychiatrist Dr Ajai Singh at his Mulund clinic on a Wednesday evening to speak about a rather unlikely subject — Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, aka Ghalib (1797–1869), one of the greatest poets ...

New Delhi: 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 ...

Mirza Ghalib is one of the most popular and well-known Urdu poets of all times. Mirza Ghalib is probably the best-known Mughal era poets of all times. His poems are celebrated for the poignant and ...

Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan ‘Ghalib’ (1797-1869) probably ranks right up there as India’s most popular poet of Hindustani. Reams have been written about Ghalib; he is famed in anecdote and verse; he has ...

A generation which has grown up listening to the usual Punjabi hip hop or rap, reciting the complicated poetry of Mirza Ghalib, in Urdu, was like living a dream. ‘Poochte hain woh ki Ghalib kaun hain, ...