Recent Posts Tagged With 'ghalib'

• Ghalib Ke Khutoot - 01

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 20:32 in ghalib

  Letters of Mirza Ghalib's; Narrated by Zia Mohiuddin: ...

• Ghalib's apologia--or 'ma'azeratnaama'

  Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2007 at 22:11 in ghalib, bahadur shah zafar

  It so happened that Bahadur Shah Zafar's favorite wife, Begum Zeenat Begum asked Ghalib to write a 'sehra' (a tribute, if you will,) for her son, Shehzada Mirza Jawan BaKhth's wedding. Complying with the Begum's wish, Ghalib wrote a 'sehra' whose ma...

• 'besabab huwa Ghalib dushman aasmaaN apna'

  Posted on Tuesday October 2nd, 2007 at 22:17 in ghalib

  Ghalib feigns modesty when he says:hum kahaaN ke daana thhe, kis hunar meiN yakta thhebesabab huwa Ghalib, dushman aasmaaN apnaHis work has spawned countless admirers--as I have said, there's hardly a master among our 'asaateza' after him, who has no...

• 'ajab azaad mard thha'

  Posted on Saturday September 29th, 2007 at 11:30 in ghalib, hali

  'ajab azaad mard'--that's how Ghalib described himself and it's a term that suits him best:yeh laash-e-bekafan Asad-e-Khastah_jaaN ki haiHaq maghfirat kare, ajab aazaad mard thhaAltaf Hussain 'Haali' in his famous and moving 'marsiya' or elegy writte...

• Ghalib's letters

  Posted on Tuesday September 25th, 2007 at 21:39 in ghalib, bedil

  In poetry, Ghalib adopted a complex, new style that ran against the dominant currents of the period. Meer had simplified poetic expression. Ghalib taking Bedil, the Persian master's approach was at times so complex that he was often ridiculed for the...

• Ghalib: 'andaleeb-e-gulshan-e-na afreedah'

  Posted on Friday September 21st, 2007 at 22:23 in ghalib, yousufi

  'maiN andaleeb-e-gulshan-e-na_afreedah huN', Ghalib said quite prophetically, describing himself as the nightingale of a paradise as yet unborn. He has influenced almost every single writer (in all genres)of significance. Be it DaaGh, Iqbal, Faani, J...

• 'sham'a har rang meiN jalti hai seHer hone tak'

  Posted on Wednesday September 19th, 2007 at 22:39 in ghalib

  ek dost ne yeh sawaal kiya thha ke agar 'dewan-e-Ghalib' se kisi ek shayr hi ka inteKhaab karna ho tau mera pasandeedah shayr kaun sa hoga. maine kahaa ke bhai jis shayar ko saari urdu duniya aqeedat ki nazar se dekhti hai, jis ne aanewaali nasloN pa...