Urdu ghazal
Sep 06, 2018
ftikhar Hussain, ‘Muztar’ Khairabadi, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar’s grandfather and poet Jan Nisar Akhthar’s father, was the grandson of the renowned poet and thinker, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi.
Sep 05, 2018
Jaleel Hasan, ‘Jaleel’ Manikpuri hailed from Lucknow and was mentored by the great Ameer Minai. He travelled to Hyderabad with Ameer and was eventually appointed by the sixth Nizam, Mir Mahboob Ali...
Sep 03, 2018
Zauq ranks among the greatest masters of the Urdu Ghazal and belongs to the finest period in the evolution of the popular poetic form. A poet-laureate at the court of the last Mughal emperor, a great...
Sep 01, 2018
Khumar toys with words teasing meaning out of them in his exquisite style in his Ghazals which are thematically speaking, predominantly romantic.
Aug 31, 2018
Asghar Gondvi’s body of work is imbued with a powerful element of mysticism. The influence of Sufi philosophy on his poetry is very evident.
Aug 30, 2018
Mir Taqi ‘Mir’ (1723-1821) ranks among the greatest Urdu poets of all time. Mir enriched Urdu poetry and the Ghazal form in particular, when it was in its incipient stages.
May 11, 2019
The couple quoted here is tempered with philosophical connotations.
