I first encountered Ghalib in the early 1970s. I was in graduate school, studying poetry. Then, as now, I had no Urdu. The medium of transmission—translation—was Aijaz Ahmad’s Ghazals of Ghalib, from ...

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 ...

Naqsh Faryaadi is the first ghazal in the 1816 manuscript of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s Divan. In the 1821 manuscript, it has the original seven verses and there are two additional verses in the ...

There have been more modern interpretations and studies of Mirza Ghalib than any other poet in Urdu. I learnt a few months ago that a bibliography of articles and books related to Ghalib ran to over ...

One of the brighter stars in the galaxy of consummate poets in mid-18th century Delhi, he, with a moderately-sized diwan of ghazals and a handful of masnavis, could have seen his fame dim like many of ...

I’ve often thought that the best translation of great poetry is not a translation but a commentary — usually citing Robert Greer Cohn’s Toward the Poems of Mallarmé (1965) as a model. In recent years, ...

It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that Mirza Ghalib remains the most well-known poet in India. Shallow rhymes falsely attributed to him evoke immediate reverence, and a poetically-inclined ...

The cultural tribute "Bayan-e-Ghalib," a rare blend of ghazals and Kathak dance, celebrated the life and legacy of the legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib at Shilpakala Vedika in Madhapur on Saturday.