As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English. Of the modern English ...

Is there anywhere I won't die? Maybe a place called Guam where my body lives, drinking and singing about Guam Last night I got so tired I don't think I even had a skeleton beneath the sheets of my ...

Nasir Kazmi had once said, “Yu Kis Tarah Katega Kari Dhoop Ka Safar, Sar Par Kheyal-e-Yaar Ki Chaadar Hi Le Chalein”. The editor of the book Generations of Ghazals, Debjani Chatterjee, a Bengali born ...

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 ...

Tanvi Singh Bhatia, Co-founder, IBTIDA - Ek Mehfil. Whenever we hear the word ‘Ghazal’, the things that come to mind are the timeless melodies of Jagjit Singh. His tracks like ‘Tum Ko Dekha To Yeh ...

The three-day theatre festival which was conducted at Keshavrao Bhosale Natyagruha came to an end on a poetic note as poetry and ghazals took through the event. A team of 7 poets which included Nissim ...

Agha Shahid Ali’s verses are an archive of longing, a place where memory is a homeland. As a self-proclaimed exile, Shahid, as Ali is usually known, spent most of his adult life longing for the vale ...