The noted Urdu poet Nida Fazli, who died in Mumbai on Monday, was known to his readers for his elegant presentation and exclusive use of colloquial language for ghazals, dohaas and nazms. Presenting a ...

There is perhaps no one in our country at least, who has not at one time or another in his or her life, been influenced by the beauty and softness of a “ghazal”. Reading a ghazal is one thing and ...

Last year, some impressive works of poetry came out, in the genres of both nazm and ghazal. They not only have literary merit but are also relevant in the current political and social context. One of ...

NEW DELHI: At an event jointly organised by Oxford University Press and The Rekhta Foundation, celebrated lyricist, poet Gulzar released The Urdu Ghazal: A Gift of India’s Composite Culture written by ...

English readers have loved Russian classic writers, the French naturalists, and the Latin American greats without even bothering to know the names of their English translators. The Translator’s ...

The father of Urdu ghazal and Chaucer of Urdu poetry in India, Shah Muhammad Waliullah or Wali Gujarati, lies here in the city. For the last 13 years, his grave has lain partially beneath a road ...

As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

Who are we, if not the product of our thoughts, emotions and desires? Who doesn’t wish to fall in love and witness the restlessness of the eyes frantically searching for the one?’ If you enjoy such ...

It was 1998 and Colonial Cousins, that legendary band of Hariharan & Leslie Lewis, was ruling the waves. Adithya Srinivasan, who was just six then, happened to hear them and got hooked. Quickly ...