This is the perfect volume for those looking to enter the world of Urdu poetry or Ghalib in particular, without learning Urdu ‘Chaltaa hun thodi duur har ik tez-rau ke saath/pehchaantaa nahin hun abhi ...

Mirza Ghalib has spun an alluring web over theatre director M. Sayeed Alam. Enamoured by the dichotomy the 19th Century Urdu poet presents, Alam is set to return to the stage with another Ghalib play ...

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, ...

Woh har ek baat pe kehna ke yoon hota toh kya hota.

Peirrot’s Toupe (Delhi) and Kirdaar (Mumbai) are staging an Urdu and Hindi theatre festival in the city starting from today. Titled Ghalib Festival: One Man, Three Plays, the event features plays like ...

December 27 marks the 221st birth anniversary of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869). His admirers, in India and around the globe, will celebrate the poet’s timeless works through ...

Had Ghalib foreseen that his lifelong lament over neglect would one day transmute into posthumous immortality, he might have refrained from writing the very couplet whose first line is partly used as ...