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]. ...

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 ...

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 ...