MIRZA Asadullah Khan Ghalib has many distinctions and one of them is that Ghalib is, along with Allama Iqbal, among the two poets on whom the most number of research-based and critical books have been ...
It was Lord T. B. Macaulay who, in the third decade of the 19th century, envisioned producing a new hybrid class — Indian in blood and colour, and English in taste and knowledge. Later, Sir Abdul ...
In every age of transition, societies return to voices that seem to understand the anxieties of being human more deeply than ...
In the Preface to his book, Dr. Gopi Chand Narang says: “Ghalib’s poetical construct supports unqualified freedom of the human spirit. His dialectical discourse is an indication of the fact that human ...
448pp, ₹799; HarperCollins (An exemplary selection of Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu couplets, translated into English along with critical commentaries) For poetry lovers, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869) ...
Understanding Ghalib and his poetics is often seen as a journey into the unknown. Your critical biography, Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep (Penguin, Allen Lane), however, not just turns a sharp ...
“Hindustan ki ilhami kitābain do hain: Muqaddas Vaid aur Dīvān-e-Ghālib.” These famous words were penned by Dr Abdur Rahman Bijnori in his seminal dissertation Mahāsin-e-Kalām-e-Ghālib, which he was ...