Shamsur Rehman Faruqi, however, debunks the notion that literature and poetry especially, the ghazal tradition, can only serve an aesthetic purpose.

The ghazal is the most common form of Urdu poetry, and, like sonnets, it follows strict rules of form: four to 12 couplets with a meter and rhyme scheme. But the similarities end there.

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.

Urdu poetry has several forms (borrowed from Persian poetry) e.g. ghazal, qasida, marsiya, rubai, etc The most popular of these is the ghazal, and I shall only discuss that here.

For Urdu poetry to mark its due impression on world literature, translating ghazals into a global lingua franca is critically important.

This ghazal of Gulzar is one of the brightest stars in the realm of Urdu poetry. The story of the ghazal will never end.

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in the Urdu original accompanied by Devnagri and Roman versions, a ...

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems.

Poetry: Spiritual and TerreneBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Luhu Lal Ghari: (Marsiye)’ by Iqtidar Javed2. ‘Bay Baal-o-Par’ by Prof.

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably ...