A prodigious poet. Mirza Ghalib started writing poetry at the age of 11. His verse is characterised by sadness, the result of an often tragic life. He was orphaned at an early age and lost all ...

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 ...

December 27 marks the 221st birth anniversary of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869 ... that the solution of every problem is in Ghalib’s poetry. To give glimpse of Ghalib’s ...

Curiously, it is something that was realised, almost more than two centuries ago, by the most in focus Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib ... traditions in which Ghalib’s poetry is firmly located.