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, ...

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, he ...

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 ...

There are a few people who leave a mark with their words. Mirza Ghalib, or as we popularly know him, Ghalib, was one such poet who touched our heart with his beautiful and deep shayris. Ghalib was ...

Nearly 192 years after Urdu and Persian poet Mirza Ghalib visited the city to restore his pension from the East India Company, Kolkata’s Urdu Academy is remembering the famed poet with a weeklong ...

MIRZA Asadullah Khan Ghalib has many distinctions and one of them is that Ghalib is, along with Allama Iqbal, among the two poets on whom the most number of research-based and critical books have been ...

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; he is ...

The great Urdu and Persian poet Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s (1797–1869) current divaan (poetry collection) contains less than half of the verses he composed, as he was an exacting and selective editor.

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 literal ...

KARACHI: The enthusiasm of the participants of the four-day International Urdu Conference did not fade till its third day on Thursday. The topic for the first session was Ghalib-e-Ehad Afreen (Ghalib: ...