A mature Ghalib returned to composing in Urdu, not just poetry, but also the most delightful prose — his letters to friends constitute some of the finest examples of the craft of epistolary writing.

Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages. Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language ...

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in the Urdu original accompanied by Devnagri and Roman versions, a ...

He, therefore, coined beautiful expressions by mingling Urdu with Persian, the other language he equally mastered and produced classic poetry in. Ghalib's poetry has enormous shades and colours.

Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. Although Ghalib himself was far prouder of his poetic achievements ...

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in the Urdu original accompanied by Devnagri and Roman versions, a ...

The greatest Urdu poet Ghalib was of the view that the language of poetry should not be the same as the spoken language of the common man. Ghalib had a horror of the commonplace in expression, and ...

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, ... One of the most popular poets was Mirza Ghalib, whose work dates from the mid-19th century.

By exploiting the lack of phonetic markers in traditional Urdu script, Ghalib introduces the multifaceted metaphor of the betel nut alongside that of the sturdy willow tree, further enriching the ...