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New Delhi, Dec 27 (UNI) Remembering Guru Gobind Singh, union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said he is the symbol of struggle against injustice, resistance against oppression, and protection of ...

In the world of Urdu literature, countless poets have come and gone, and many more will continue to appear, but the sky of time has rarely witnessed a poet like Ghalib. Ghalib was fully aware of his ...

Later this month, October 30 marks the death of Begum Akhtar in 1974. Fifty-one years later, when ghazals are mentioned, her name is among the top, maybe even the first, that comes up. Her story is ...

On 20 September 1810, in the cultural heart of Lucknow, one of Urdu’s greatest voices fell silent. Yet, more than two centuries later, Mir Muhammad Taqi — better known to the world as Mir Taqi Mir — ...

No lover is to be seen around. The cap wearers have killed indiscriminately. In 1839, the French Orientalist Garcin de Tassy penned a literary history of Hindavi and Hindustani poetry. Tassy’s ...

People are always tempted to compare the ghazal to the sonnet. Poems in the two genres are usually about the same length, and they share a basically romantic and introspective sensibility. A Western ...

For singer-songwriter Papon, ghazals hold a special place in his heart. A lifelong admirer of Urdu poetry, he sees the genre as a profound blend of emotion, storytelling, and musicality. “Urdu poetry ...

The annual four-day Urdu Heritage Festival returned to the Capital on Thursday, offering a plethora of cultural events, ghazal and qawwali performances as hundreds of people crowded the Central Park ...

When you utter the word ‘ghazal’, what comes to mind are the timeless verses of Mirza Ghalib and the haunting voices of Mehdi Hasan, Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali, and Jagjit Singh. Ghazal is a ...

'Jise Samajhna Hoga, Vo Urdu Seekh Lega' I'm reading Urdu, English and Bengali newspapers that are all praise for the late Pankaj Udhas' 'beautiful' Ghazals that are bereft of difficult Urdu words.