New Delhi’s LTG Auditorium was jam-packed on 5 January, with middle-aged and older people making up most of the audience.

The second day of the Jashn-e-Urdu festival at the historic Gauhar Mahal celebrated Urdu literature and syncretic traditions through discussions, poetry, and an electrifying Qawwali performance on ...

On the reading list this week is an exemplary selection of Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu couplets, translated into English along with ...

The evening featured the cutting of a cake in Ghalib’s memory and a gathering of sher-o-shayari ... recited their ghazals, ...

Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Essential Ghalib' will be released on 6 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

In case, you are wondering who is Mirza Ghalib., and why are we even talking about him, then worry not because we are here to ...

I CONFESS I owe a great deal to Hegel, Goethe, Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Wordsworth. The first ...

Many of his verses have been sung as ghazals by iconic singers and continue ... He began composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but he was equally efficient in Persian and ...

Lyricist Javed Akhtar and singer Shilpa Rao paid tribute to the iconic Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib on his 227th birth anniversary ...

The first segment of the programme was dedicated to the launch of Syed Khalid Mohsin’s poetry book, which is a compilation of Urdu ghazals.A development professional associated with HHRD-USA, Mohsin ...

For singer-songwriter Papon, ghazals hold a special place in his heart. A lifelong admirer of Urdu poetry, he sees the genre as a profound blend of emotion, storytelling, and musicality.

he asked. The grand celebration of Urdu language and Hindustani culture is known for hosting eclectic art forms including ghazals, sufi music, qawwali, dastangoi, panel discussions, mushaira, poetry ...