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 ...

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 ...

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, the works ...

Mirza Ghalib, who died on February 15, 1869, was a powerful, eloquent and erudite poet who investigated and captured life’s experiences and occurrences with capering humour in his enigmatic ghazals.

Kolkata, Feb 16 (PTI) Popular poet-film lyricist Srijato and singer Subhamita Banerjee have teamed up for “Ghalibnama”, a compilation of some of Ghalib’s timeless numbers in Bengali. “We have ...

Hindustani poetry is slowly but steadily becoming a topic of discussion among many young professionals in the city. Mera Salaam Kahiyo is one such show by three professionals whose aim to showcase the ...

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 ...

Urdu poetry is making inroads into Poland, with the ghazals of renowned 19th century poet Mirza Ghalib being translated into Polish. HT Image Anil Wadhwa, India's ambassador to Poland, released a ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

Google today celebrated the last great poet of the Mughal era, Mirza Ghalib's 220th birth anniversary with a doodle. Everybody has heard his name at least once in their lifetime. A prominent Urdu and ...