A memorial for Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Assadullah Khan Ghalib needs no introduction. He was a great Urdu poet who was at once secular and realistic. He lived before and after the first war of independence of 1857 in the regime of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar who ...

Mirza Ghalib once wrote: 'Chand Tasweer-e-butan chand haseenon ke 'khuttot', baad marne ke mere ghar se yeh samaan nikla.' (Few pictures of statues and letters of cute damsels were all that could be recovered from my house after my death). It was ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quoted famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib to take on BJP. Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj responded to it narrating the verse of Hindi poet Bashir Badr.

By Mirza Ghalib There's one who took my heart away. But does she own it? I can't say. See her as unjust though I may, Is she a tyrant? I can't say. She strides a bloodless battlefield Where there's no battle-axe to wield. She keeps a winless ...

By Mirza Ghalib I perceive the world as a playground Where dawn and dusk appear in eternal rounds In His universal form is a plaything the throne of Solomon. The miracles of the messiah seem so ordinary in my eyes Without name I cannot comprehend ...

By Mirza Ghalib Thousands of desires, each worth dying for; Many of them I have realized yet I yearn for more. Why should my killer (lover) be afraid? No one will hold her responsible For the blood which will continuously flow through my eyes all my ...

Today's felicitation function is very important for Tehreer-e-Nou and for me also. This function is a review meeting for me as well where I got not only encouragement but also advice from the lovers of Urdu and the readers of Tehreer-e-Nou for which ...

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(Kabul) The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for moral crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little ...