Say veteran theatre artiste Salim Arif and ghazal singer Tauseef Akhtar, who presented the works of 19th Century Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib to a packed house of poetry lovers in Hyderabad ...

KARACHI: Mirza Ghalib, a grand classical Urdu and Persian poet of the subcontinent, played a significant role through his poetry in creating social harmony among the people. Ghalib’s poetry emphasises ...

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.

We meet psychiatrist Dr Ajai Singh at his Mulund clinic on a Wednesday evening to speak about a rather unlikely subject — Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, aka Ghalib (1797–1869), one of the greatest poets ...

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 ...

Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan ‘Ghalib’ (1797-1869) probably ranks right up there as India’s most popular poet of Hindustani. Reams have been written about Ghalib; he is famed in anecdote and verse; he has ...

Poetry and art enthusiasts in Delhi are keeping Mirza Ghalib, the legendary Urdu poet, alive in their own ways. Here’s looking at how these people are lending new forms to his verses, across platforms ...

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, ...

No words match his. To make a play about Ghalib, the 19th century poet even the thought of the undertaking feels almost blasphemous. How dare a mere mortal attempt the infinite expressions? Love is ...

“Hindustan ki ilhami kitābain do hain: Muqaddas Vaid aur Dīvān-e-Ghālib.” These famous words were penned by Dr Abdur Rahman Bijnori in his seminal dissertation Mahāsin-e-Kalām-e-Ghālib, which he was ...

While children in India and Pakistan still read Shakespeare in school, they hardly study classics of their own literature — verses by Ghalib or Mir in case of Urdu, for instance. Many ...