In her second collection, an Indian poet pours out her love for Urdu, the ghazal and mystical devotion EPAPER LIVE TV DAWNNEWS URDU Images Herald Aurora CityFM89 Advertise Events / Supplements ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan is, in her own words, “part love letter to Urdu… and part manual for the craft of ghazal.” Writing in English, the author feels that the ghazal ...

Urdu ki Ishq ya Shayri (Urdu Love poetry or ghazal), penned around 1945, is Firaq’s lengthy essay (dedicated to a mysterious, unnamed lover) about the historical evolution of Urdu ghazal.

Their book, Same-Sex love in India: ... If the Urdu ghazals of the 18 th and 19 th centuries express homosexuality according to the social milieu in which they were produced, ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

Poetry— from dohas and kavita to ghazals and nazm—has forever been an integral element of Indian literature. ... Once you fall in love with poetry and Urdu, there is no going back.” ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, ... Ghazals structured around couplets and refrains flourished then.

It’s the oldest love affair I have ever had.” Giving a glimpse into her panel discussion, Rao said that she’ll talk about how Urdu poetry and ghazal have shaped their careers.