Saturday, 15 October 2011

Ghalib - vo firaaq aur vo visaal kahaan

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A well-known Ghalib ghazal to bring this site out of another longish spell of hibernation.  Chosen partly because of the exceptionally dul...
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Saturday, 19 February 2011

Dard - Tuhmaten chand apne zimme dhar chale

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One of the founding fathers of the Urdu Ghazal, and a towering figure in the Delhi poetic circles of his time, was Khvaja Mir Dard. He was ...
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Faiz - Do Ishq

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An ever-vigilant reader has shaken me awake to the shameful realisation that I missed the centenary of Faiz' birth, on 13 February, with...
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Sunday, 6 February 2011

Daagh - Shokhi ne teri kaam kiya

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Nawab Mirza Khan (1831-1905), who wrote under the pen name of 'Daagh Dehlvi' enjoys a prominent place in the "Delhi school...
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Sunday, 16 January 2011

Faiz - Jame gii kaise bisaat yaaraa

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Yet another exceptionally melodious ghazal from Faiz's 1965 work, dast-e-tah-e-sang .  There's a popular rendition of a part of it b...
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Friday, 7 January 2011

Faiz - ye jafaa-e-gham ka chaara

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Faiz wrote this short poem in 1959, while incarcerated in Lahore jail. It appears in his 1965 publication dast-e-tah-e-sang . While broadly...
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Faiz - Toofaan-ba-dil hai har koi dildaar dekhnaa

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When I promised on the last post that this sonorous Faiz ghazal would be next, i hadn't intended such an inexcusably long hiatus to inte...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Ghalib - Taskiin ko ham na roen

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While this isn't among the deepest of Ghalib's ghazals, I love its tonal balance, its 'swingy' rhythm... Set in a relativel...
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Monday, 5 April 2010

Ghalib - hai bas ki har ek un ke ishaare mein nishaan aur

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For reasons that are entirely understandable, the maqtaa of this ghazal is among the best known, and best loved, shers in the entire canon ...
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