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World Poetry Day 2025 celebrates poetry’s power to promote peace, ... Mirza Ghalib: A renowned Urdu poet, Ghalib is famous for his ghazals that portray the intricacies of life and love.
Just like this couplet of Gulzar in which says Poetry in Urdu Gulzar. People like to read the poetry in Urdu image. You may find a long list of categories in the poetry section like love, sad ...
People remember Mirza Ghalib, born in the Taj City Agra, on his 227th birth anniversary.Mirza Ghalib was born on December 27, 1797 in Agra, India. His real name was Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan. He was ...
Mirza Farhatullah Baig’s Urdu novel ‘Dehli Ki Aakhri Shama’ recreates Delhi’s lost poetic heritage The book has been translated twice into English. Khawar Khan Achakzai ...
For decades, Urdu Bazaar wasn’t just about selling books—it was a hub of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry. Also known as Kitab Bazaar or Urdu Mandir, it began with just a few shops in 1920 but ...
Ghalib in Calcutta ‘Ghalib reached Calcutta in February 1828, a little over a year after leaving Delhi. Raja Sohan Lal helped him find comfortable living quarters in Mirza Ali Saudagar’s haveli in ...
Anand Kumar, a former student of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), who now runs a library in the Chowk area of Varanasi, says: “We all know Ghalib wrote more in Urdu than in Persian and he used to say ...
Bazm-Urdu-Qatar (BUQ), the oldest literary organisation in Qatar established in 1959, organised a seminar dedicated to the legendary classical Urdu and Persian poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib ...
Agra. On the occasion of the 226th birth anniversary of Mirza Ghalib, especially the people of Agra will not forget to remember him as always, because he was born on December 27, 1797 in Taj City Agra ...
A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab ...