PAYING homage to Fatima Surayya Bajia at the Ghalib Library recently, speakers were mournful...
Besides Bajia’s literary works, her social services and personal favours for many, she had done something wonderful for the Ghalib Library and Idara-i-Yadgar-i-Ghalib (IYG)...
I also enjoy reading the works of Asadullah Khan Ghalib, who describes human emotions very well...
I am looking for the book and someone told me I may be able to find it in Karachi...
Mirza ji was the moniker he used to refer to Ghalib, the great 19th-century Urdu poet...
Perhaps the gravitas of the young peacock Mirza ji resonated with Ghalib...
DR Brian Quayle Silver has come up with an interesting book titled The Noble Science of the Ghazal: the Urdu Poetry of Mirza Ghalib...
But before we discuss his views on Ghalib and ghazal as expressed in the book, let us have a look at an account of Dr Brian Q...
”Intriguingly, these words of a colossus of English literature are aptly applicable to a colossus of Urdu literature — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib...
Yes, Ghalib’s liberty does sometimes commit wrongs, transgressing conventional rules and subverting traditional regulatory norms, but his wrongs are always ‘pretty...
I AM afraid that is not the initial opinion I share of Calcutta, now Kolkata, with Mirza Ghalib when I arrive on the street named after him one terribly hot summer day...
According to Ghalib’s biographers, he liked Calcutta so much that in his ode to the city he gushes over its lush greenery, charming women, sweet fruits and mellow wines...
Most people who are acquainted with Ghalib’s poetry know that he was born on Rajab 8, 1212, corresponding to Dec 27, 1797...
Most people are also aware that Ghalib was a gifted child who began composing poetry at the age of 11 or 12, was married to Umrao Begum at 13, moved from Agra to Delhi a couple of years later, and lived there for the rest of his life...
KARACHI: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, who was born on Dec 27, 1797 in Agra, is widely regarded as the greatest Urdu language poet...
Urdu is Pakistan’s national language and there are at least half a dozen cultural organisations in Karachi, a couple of them named after Ghalib, that harp on the importance of the Urdu language...
KARACHI: Witticism, anecdotes, specimens of enchanting poetry and fresh interpretation of Ghalib’s verses enlivened the evening at the Ghalib Library on Wednesday where intellectuals, writers and poets gathered to pay homage to the classical poet on his death anniversary...
They were unanimous that as long as Urdu lived, Ghalib would not die...
Among his over 70 books, the ones on Delhi’s relics, Ghalib’s letters and textual criticism made him a well-known name in the Urdu’s literary circles the world over...
Ghalib and Zauq’s tombs in Delhi were in a shambles and it was Khaliq Anjum who fought for their restoration for years...
Diwan-i-Ghalib is always on my side table...
Ghalib had a very broad vision; he was a progressive poet and a dialectical materialist...
FEBRUARY 15 marks Ghalib’s death anniversary...
Both Ghalib and Mushfiq Khwaja are the writers known for their sharp wit and a splendid gift of repartee...
ISLAMABAD: After a strong reaction from writers and poets, portraits of legendary poets Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and Faiz Ahmad Faiz have once again been displayed in a gallery in the building of the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) in the federal capital...
The portraits of Ghalib and Faiz, which had been on display in the gallery alongside a portrait of national poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal for years, were reportedly removed on...
KARACHI: Habib University on Thursday evening organised a webinar on ‘All Alone in Lucknow — Yagana, the Ghalib-Breaker’ as part of its Islam After Colonialism series...
It was this concern with the Persianisation of Urdu that helped Yagana launch his earlier critiques of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib...
He started out as a poet in Urdu but says that once he properly read Ghalib he realised he couldn’t beat him and that all that needed to be said, Ghalib had already said, and most eloquently too...
Instead, he then decided to focus on introducing Ghalib’s work to the English-speaking world and ended up producing a magnum opus of the English translation of all Ghalib’s Urdu and Persian ghazals — a labour of love that expanded over...