Poetry’s ability to transcend language, culture, and human differences is extra-ordinary. There is arguably no genre more visceral than this one, or more expressive. Ghalib’s romantic and ...

EXACTLY 124 years ago, on February 15, died Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of Urdu’s greatest bards. However, critical evaluation —commentaries and re-evaluation — of Ghalib’s poetry and prose goes ...

MIRZA Asadullah Khan Ghalib has many distinctions and one of them is that Ghalib is, along with Allama Iqbal, among the two poets on whom the most number of research-based and critical books have been ...

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, ...

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 ...

There are a few people who leave a mark with their words. Mirza Ghalib, or as we popularly know him, Ghalib, was one such poet who touched our heart with his beautiful and deep shayris. Ghalib was ...

Legendary poet Mirza Ghalib’s mural unveiled at Nagpada junction in Mumbai. Legendary poet’s mural unveiled at Nagpada junction. Ghazal was pronounced as ‘gajal’ and Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar’s ...

Sinner, lover, Ah what a man." Some basic facts may be relevant in understanding Ghalib. He was of Central Asian ancestry, and belonged to a family with a long tradition of military service to various ...

KARACHI: The enthusiasm of the participants of the four-day International Urdu Conference did not fade till its third day on Thursday. The topic for the first session was Ghalib-e-Ehad Afreen (Ghalib: ...

Even if you’re not an ardent fan of Urdu shayari, you cannot look away at a Mirza Ghalib couplet if you stumble upon one. Mirza Ghalib spent the entirety of his life near a Masjid, listening to ...