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Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 20:32 in ghalib
Letters of Mirza Ghalib's; Narrated by Zia Mohiuddin: ...
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Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2007 at 22:11 in bahadur shah zafar, ghalib
It so happened that Bahadur Shah Zafar's favorite wife, Begum Zeenat Begum asked Ghalib to write a 'sehra' (a tribute, if you will,) for her son, Shehzada Mirza Jawan BaKhth's wedding. Complying with the Begum's wish, Ghalib wrote a 'sehra' whose ma...
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Posted on Tuesday October 2nd, 2007 at 22:17 in ghalib
Ghalib feigns modesty when he says:hum kahaaN ke daana thhe, kis hunar meiN yakta thhebesabab huwa Ghalib, dushman aasmaaN apnaHis work has spawned countless admirers--as I have said, there's hardly a master among our 'asaateza' after him, who has no...
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Posted on Saturday September 29th, 2007 at 11:30 in ghalib, hali
'ajab azaad mard'--that's how Ghalib described himself and it's a term that suits him best:yeh laash-e-bekafan Asad-e-Khastah_jaaN ki haiHaq maghfirat kare, ajab aazaad mard thhaAltaf Hussain 'Haali' in his famous and moving 'marsiya' or elegy writte...
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Posted on Tuesday September 25th, 2007 at 21:39 in bedil, ghalib
In poetry, Ghalib adopted a complex, new style that ran against the dominant currents of the period. Meer had simplified poetic expression. Ghalib taking Bedil, the Persian master's approach was at times so complex that he was often ridiculed for the...
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