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

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 ...

Yes, ghazal has been criticized for 125 years, our general mood has become that we consider only ghazal as poetry and other genres of poetry are ignored, the most important book of criticism on ...

The Urdu Ghazal: A Gift of India’s Composite Culture, Gopi Chand Narang, translated from Urdu by Surinder Deol, Oxford University Press. We welcome your comments at [email protected]. ...

The book presents a unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Indian and alien value systems.

The Urdu Heritage Festival in Delhi features cultural events, performances, and competitions, expecting over 10,000 attendees at Central Park. Hindustan Times Story by HT Correspondent ...

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 ...

Beauty is woven into the ghazal with such deep feelings of love that the focus is always on seeking oneness with the other, notes Gopi Chand Narang.

Some seekers of technicalities of Urdu poetry – especially ghazals – such as Bahrat Bhushan Pant, Khushbeer Singh Shaad, Sanjay Mishra Shauq and Munnawar Rana, started their journey of poetry ...

The Urdu ghazal is a crucial component of Hindustani tehzeeb that is kept alive not simply by its most “classical” practitioners but also by those who sing every day in popular concerts and ...