Mumbai: Veteran lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar says legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s work could only have found meaning in India. “Ghalib was possible only in India. His work wouldn’t have been nurtured and preserved if not for this country. His language and depth used in his work could have only found[Read More…]
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The intriguing story behind Ghalib’s “Har ek baat pe kahte ho”
“Har ek baat pe kahte ho tum ki tū kyā hai tumhīñ kaho ki ye andāz-e-guftugū kyā hai na sho.ale meñ ye karishma na barq meñ ye adā koī batāo ki vo shoḳh-e-tund-ḳhū kyā hai ye rashk hai ki vo hotā hai ham-suḳhan tum se vagarna ḳhauf-e-bad-āmozi-e-adū kyā hai” Ghalib,[Read More…]
Urdu script needs to be preserved: Gulzar
Jashn-e-Rekhta releases schedule for Urdu festival
As Delhi set to host one of the biggest events for poetry lovers, Jashn-e-Rekhta, a festival celebrating Urdu, the organisation releases the scheduled for 3 day festival on Wednesday. Jashn-e-Rekhta is a celebration of the spirit and eloquence of Urdu. The festival is organised annually in Delhi, under the aegis[Read More…]
Shah Rukh Khan conferred with honorary doctorate for promoting Urdu
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan received the honorary doctorate at the sixth convocation of Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad. The ‘Raees’ star was conferred with the honour for his immense contribution in the promotion of Urdu language and culture. Fully clad in a graduation gown and sporting a[Read More…]
The Growth of Urdu Journalism in Lucknow
Being the city of Nawabs and ‘cultural centre’ of Northern India, Lucknow remained a good patron of literary activities. With political crises at Delhi, poets bereft of patronage left for Lucknow which provided them with some option and most of them permanently migrated. Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810) and Mirza Muhammad[Read More…]