In every age of transition, societies return to voices that seem to understand the anxieties of being human more deeply than ...

AGRA, (IANS) – The 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Ghalib, the doyen of Urdu poetry, was a forgotten event in the Taj city, his birthplace, though a ritualistic ‘mushaira’ was held at a local hotel.

Legendary writer-poet Gulzar says he believes he was destined to make his acclaimed 1988 television series Mirza Ghalib with Naseeruddin Shah, who, as a student, once wrote to him declaring he was the ...

The government took possession of Mirza Ghalib's residence, the haveli, in 1964 but soon auctioned it to one Mohammed Ali Farooqi whose bid was the highest at 22,400. Google’s latest Doodle celebrates ...

Delhi’s immortal Mirza Ghalib composed some of the world’s greatest love poems. Even so, when the poet would sit every morning on the commode, he wouldn’t exactly expel rose petals. Indeed, one thing ...

In Ghalib in New Delhi, Mirza Ghalib is humorously transported into modern-day Delhi, where his old-world sensibilities clash ...

KARACHI: The Arts Council of Pakistan organised on Monday evening an event to commemorate the death anniversary of the greatest Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, which falls on Feb 15. Moderated ...

In a letter dated November 22, 1952, Professor Syed Masood Hasan Rizvi Adeeb of Lucknow writes to Allama Syed Murtaza Hussain Fazil Lakhnawi, “Yesterday, I sent you a registered letter in your name.