MUMBAI, (IANS) – Even 154 years after his death, the legendary Urdu-Persian poet — Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan, or just Mirza Ghalib — often referred to as the ’emperor of romance’, continues to live and ...

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 ...

A MOCK trial, an imaginary defamation suit filed by Umrao Jan Ada — the eponymous heroine in the famous novel — against Mirza Hadi Rusva, the creator of the character, was hugely successful when ...

Mirza Ghalib once said, “Do not go by the lines on the palm of the hand, as luck is bestowed even on those who do not have a ...

The government took possession of Mirza Ghalib's residence, the haveli, in 1964 but soon auctioned it to one Mohammed Ali Farooqi whose bid was the highest at 22,400. The government took possession of ...