But his legacy has come to be widely celebrated, particularly his mastery of the Urdu ghazal. Gifted letter writer. Mirza Ghalib was also a gifted letter writer. His letters paved the way to a ...

Mirza Ghalib, who died on February 15 ... Selections from the Urdu and Persian Ghazals of Ghalib (2003) are a testament to the fact that Ghalib’s verses have reinvigorated formal poetry in ...

That is Mirza Ghalib, praising Mirza Ghalib but in the third person. Arrogance is not a quality you look for in a person but it sits lightly on the shoulders of Mirza Ghalib, the poet par ...

He owed this accomplishment as much to his unique imagination and mastery of Urdu language as to his access to two traditions of ghazal form. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in 1797 at Agra ...

A new book on Mirza Ghalib seeks to present the intellectual ... Based on a chronological reading of Ghalib's Urdu ghazals, Abdullah identifies the different stages and phases of the poet's ...

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 ...

Mirza Ghalib is a name that is synonymous with Urdu poetry. Born as Mirza Asadullah ... Are Killing It With One Word At A Time Many of his ghazals and letters carried a history of events of ...

December 27 marks the 221st birth anniversary of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib ... More than 200 years have passed since Mirza Ghalib penned his last ghazal. Yet themes, imagery and melody ...

Ghalib’s words sometimes burn with such ... One has to listen to these ghazals – both in Urdu and in the English where I make the asseveration of equivalence – listen to the breath rising ...

The156th death anniversary of renowned poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was observed ... where he gained fame for his ghazals, which continue to influence Urdu literature. His works reflect ...