"Dil dhoondta hai phir wahi fursat ke raat din..." How often do we find ourselves yearning for the timeless verses of Mirza ...

On the reading list this week is an exemplary selection of Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu couplets, translated into English along with ...

Let it be mentioned in passing that Ghalib had the deepest influences from the Persian poet of Mughal India – Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Bedil’s poetry in all its breadth is a homage to the ...

Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Essential Ghalib' will be released on 6 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Lyricist Javed Akhtar and singer Shilpa Rao paid tribute to the iconic Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib on his 227th birth anniversary ...

Dr Manmohan Singh is widely regarded as the brains behind the economic changes that were implemented during PV Narasimha ...

The coming December 27 will mark the 227th birth anniversary of one of the greatest Urdu poets, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. Born in Agra in 1797, he moved to Delhi as a child, where he lived ...

I CONFESS I owe a great deal to Hegel, Goethe, Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Wordsworth. The first ...

The 153rd death anniversary of classical Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was observed on Tuesday. Ghalib was born on December 27, 1796 in the city of Akbarabad. Mirza Ghalib is considered as one ...

Excerpted with permission from The Essential Ghalib, translated from the Urdu by, HarperCollins India.

The birth anniversary of renowned Urdu and Persian poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was observed today [27th December]. He was born on this day in 1797 in Agra, India. Asadullah Khan Ghalib is ...