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 ...

Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English. Of the modern English ...

Nasir Kazmi had once said, “Yu Kis Tarah Katega Kari Dhoop Ka Safar, Sar Par Kheyal-e-Yaar Ki Chaadar Hi Le Chalein”. The editor of the book Generations of Ghazals, Debjani Chatterjee, a Bengali born ...

Mumbai, India | Singer-composer Nisschal Zaveri will present Whispers of the Infinite – Spring Edit, a ghazal and poetry ...

Singer and poet Minu Bakshi talks about her love for poetry, her new collection of poems in Urdu, and how every attempt at rhyming doesn’t make a ghazal. She’s from a close-knit, well-off, and ...

Is there anywhere I won't die? Maybe a place called Guam where my body lives, drinking and singing about Guam Last night I got so tired I don't think I even had a skeleton beneath the sheets of my ...