How did one of history’s greatest Urdu poets become a philatelic icon? Syed Muhammad Naqavi traces his journey from a 1952 ...

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

The mayor of the city with the highest percentage of immigrants in Michigan and an all-Muslim city council has endorsed Donald Trump for president. Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, the first Arab American ...

Adnan Ghalib also claims Lynne Spears asked him to blame Sam Lutfi for the singer's downfall Another familiar face from Britney Spears‘s chaotic past surfaced in court Tuesday: Adnan Ghalib, the ...

Asadullah Khan Ghalib, like Dr Johnson, was a class by himself. As a man and a poet he offers us his own genius. From all accounts he was a remarkable conversationalist and was vastly gregarious. One ...

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 ...

It took Daud Rahbar six years of painstaking work to complete his translation. Urdu Letters of Mirza Asadu’llah Khan Ghalib was published by the State University of New York Press. It is exhaustively ...

The Essential Ghalib is a curated selection of two hundred couplets by the iconic poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. This ...

Google Doodle on Wednesday celebrated the birthday of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib on his 220th birth anniversary. Mirza Ghalib, who perhaps has one of the biggest contributions to Urdu literature, was born ...

Both the poets are bohemians and thus a breed apart from the rest of the Urdu poets in their diction, classic imagery and use of metaphors. Both are frequently quoted poets, especially amongst the ...

Much has been said about the difficulties one faces in translating poetry. Yes, it is a daunting task, particularly in the case of good poetry. In the case of great poetry, it is ultimately a ...