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.
There have been more modern interpretations and studies of Mirza Ghalib than any other poet in Urdu. I learnt a few months ago that a bibliography of articles and books related to Ghalib ran to over ...
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 ...
‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets
Ghalib opens his diivaan with a unique stroke of his genius. The imploring in the first line, followed by an answer in the second line, opens up various avenues of interpretation. The implication here ...
Woh har ek baat pe kehna ke yoon hota toh kya hota.
Art has several forms, and when you blend the most beautiful forms of dance, music, and poetry, you get fantastic results. A theatrical Kathak dance drama, ‘Dastan-e-Ghalib’ took place in the Capital ...
The author, alongside Iftekhar Ahsan, spent an afternoon walking parts of the city that were integral to the great poet’s time here Jalil is working on a travelogue documenting Ghalib’s journey from ...
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