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 ...

As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English. Of the modern English ...

Is there anywhere I won't die? Maybe a place called Guam where my body lives, drinking and singing about Guam Last night I got so tired I don't think I even had a skeleton beneath the sheets of my ...

She’s from a close-knit, well-off, and traditional Punjabi family. Singer and poet, Minu Bakshi, who has recently released her second book of poetry Mauj-e-Saraab, says, “My poetry is straight from ...

The three-day theatre festival which was conducted at Keshavrao Bhosale Natyagruha came to an end on a poetic note as poetry and ghazals took through the event. A team of 7 poets which included Nissim ...

Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by nuancing the larger context and stretching ...

Nasir Kazmi had once said, “Yu Kis Tarah Katega Kari Dhoop Ka Safar, Sar Par Kheyal-e-Yaar Ki Chaadar Hi Le Chalein”. The editor of the book Generations of Ghazals, Debjani Chatterjee, a Bengali born ...