In this episode of Urdunama, host Fabeha Syed turns to one of Ghalib’s most well-known ghazals, ‘Koi Umeed Bar Nahin Aati’, ...

Mirza Ghalib is one of the most popular and well-known Urdu poets of all times. Mirza Ghalib is probably the best-known Mughal era poets of all times. His poems are celebrated for the poignant and ...

Even if you’re not an ardent fan of Urdu shayari, you cannot look away at a Mirza Ghalib couplet if you stumble upon one. Mirza Ghalib spent the entirety of his life near a Masjid, listening to ...

Calling legendary poet Mirza Ghalib the last classical and first modern poet, Aligarh University’s Urdu professor Seraj Ajmali has said Ghalib represented the best in classical as well as modern ...

Mumbai, Dec 27: The world is celebrating the 220th birthday of Mirza Ghalib today. Born in 1797, Mirza Ghalib, whose real name was Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, is hailed as one of the greatest poets of ...

Mirza Ghalib, who died on February 15, 1869, was a powerful, eloquent and erudite poet who investigated and captured life’s experiences and occurrences with capering humour in his enigmatic ghazals.

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. ‘Poochte hain woh ki Ghalib kaun hain, ...

Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan, popularly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Urdu and Persian poet of the 19th century. He was born on December 27, 1797. Through his years of living and loving literature, he ...

New Delhi: Veteran lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar recalled the work by legendary Urdu-Persian poet Mirza Ghalib, saying that the famous poet has not left any aspect of life and emotion which ...

Though Mirza Ghalib's contribution to “Urdu Adab” is considered as significant as Shakespeare's to English, the mansion in Agra where he was born on this day in 1797 bears no memorial to the great ...