A book launch event for the poetry collection, "Ujagh Mein Pari Hai Raakh", written by the renowned and distinguished ghazal poet, Aftab Khan, was organised at the Punjab Arts Council (PAC) in ...

"Harf-e-Mustaar" by Satish Jha asks if classical ghazal can still bear the weight of our shared promises, memory, and ...

Under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, Bazm-Urdu-Qatar (BUQ) organised a launch ceremony of Doha-based poetess Samreen Nadeem Samar's collection of ghazals, 'Khusboo-e-Khayal' and a poetry ...

This is an excerpt from the Preface to Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals, selected, edited and translated by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India, detailing the journey of ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Right from Alaam Kei Charagho (lamps of gloom) beginning couplet of its first ghazal, the readers can assess the trend the poet Saleem ur Rehman, is going for. It goes: ‘In Khushk Bayabanon Main ...

Ali Shir Navai (left) exposed Persian ghazals to the extinct Chagatai language and Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah (right) was an early practitioner of Urdu ghazals in India The trajectory of the ghazal is ...