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 ...

Mirza Ghalib is a name that is synonymous with Urdu poetry. Born as M irza Asadullah Khan, Ghalib was a pen name that he adopted. He achieved immense fame with this. Every person who is a fan of ...

I write Urdu poetry for the sake of your pleasure only] Ghalib claims in the couplet that he makes no claim of being an Urdu poet, that he wrote the prothalamion only for the pleasure of her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Remembering Ghalib’s angst through his poetry The iconic Urdu poet died Feb 15, 1869, in his Ballimaran haveli in the walled city of old Delhi's Shahjahanabad.

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...

So, when I recently picked up my second book of Urdu poems, after Hukm E Safar —Hitesh Gupta Aadil’s Humafar: The World Of Urdu Poetry (Fingerprint)—I knew how to proceed. I read the poems ...

Maybe Ghalib's years at Ballimaran in old Delhi were unhappy and maybe the angst gave birth to such marvellous poetry. Maybe, that is why poetry lovers from all over the world still negotiate ...