Using repetition to splice two genres – the oriental ghazal and the blues – this humorous offering demonstrates the poet's joy in language and form There's always a wealth of interesting new writing ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan is, in her own words, “part love letter to Urdu… and part manual for the craft of ghazal.” Writing in English, the author feels that the ghazal has the ...

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The one who knows what a ghazal represents will look at this homeland of ours in a different light; the epitome of beauty tinged with a bit of melancholy, separation, and suffering. A distant sound ...