Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages. Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language ...

Zaban-e-Urdu hai jiska naam, Woh Hindustan ki jaan hai.” The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A ...

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably ...

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 ...

Lucknow: The UP Sangeet Natak Akademi on Friday witnessed a mesmerising confluence of poetry, ghazal, and kathak during Bayan-e-Ghalib, a soulful event that brought the legendary poet's works to ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry ...

One of the original and reliable commentaries on Ghalib’s Urdu poetry, this has a tendency to explain many of Ghalib’s verses against the backdrop of Sufism and mysticism.

Ghalib, he said, had a God-gifted uniqueness. Qazi Afzaal Hussain of India’s Aligarh University said that Ghalib changed the way poetry was written singlehandedly.

And there are a few things to know before you try to impress the poetry-lover-in-chief. One of the most popular poets was Mirza Ghalib, whose work dates from the mid-19th century.

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in the Urdu original accompanied by Devnagri and Roman versions, a ...