To the uninitiated, Ghalib was an agnostic, if not an outright atheist. But if you delve deeper, his poetry gives an impression of his profoundly spiritual bent of mind.

GHALIB died unsung at the age of 72 this month 141 years ago in a rented premises in Delhi. ... Ghalib's poetry has enormous shades and colours. Corporeal love and wordly pleasures, ...

Mirza Asadullah Khan chose possibly the most apt pen name for himself – Ghalib – meaning dominant. He rules the world of poetry of the Indian subcontinent to date. Greats like Faiz have taken ...

Ghalib poetry was like service to mankind and humanity. He was born on 27 December 1797. Buried near the Dargah of Great Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. ...

It seems to me, albeit tentatively, that this visual technique is unique to Ghalib in the whole history of Urdu poetry. So how does one translate Ghalib, say, into English?

The iconic Urdu poet died Feb 15, 1869, in his Ballimaran haveli in the walled city of old Delhi's Shahjahanabad. - Remembering Ghalib's angst through his poetry ...

Ghalib’s poetry is exquisite, multivalent and above all divine. The poet was not being vainglorious when he emphatically proclaimed: aatay hain ghaib se ye mazamin khayal may, Ghalib sareeray ...

A rt has several forms, and when you blend the most beautiful forms of dance, music, and poetry, you get fantastic results. A theatrical Kathak dance drama, ‘Dastan-e-Ghalib’ took place in the ...

Arif: Ghalib was an ardent advocate of liberal school of Urdu poetry. His works speak of anti-fundamentalism. Ghalib is probably the first modern Urdu poet, who had a solid grounding in Indian ethos.

A generation which has grown up listening to the usual Punjabi hip hop or rap, reciting the complicated poetry of Mirza Ghalib, in Urdu, was like living a dream. Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025.