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Showing posts with label Urdu poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urdu poetry. Show all posts
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Mehfil-e-Naat, Manqabat: Urdu poets and devotional poetry in praise of Prophet, Ahl-e-Bait

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Apart from 'mushairas', there are poetic meets like 'Mushaira-e-Tarah' or Mehfil-e-Na'at-o-Manqabat that are held in cit...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Craft of Urdu Ghazal, Nazm: Meter, Prosody and charm of couplets vis-a-vis poetry sans meter

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi When you write 'ghazal' or even a nazm, it's not just radeef & qafia [rhyming system], but ...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

Bekal Utsahi too bids adieu: Famous Urdu poet was named 'Utsahi' by first PM Jawaharlal Nehru

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Famous Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi is no more. He was undergoing treatment in a Delhi hospital where he passed away on December 3. Bekal U...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Love poetry, Learn Urdu: Multi-lingual Urdu poetry website brings poetry in three scripts on same page to help you learn Urdu

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BESTGHAZALS.NET When BestGhazals.Net was initially started as a blog, the aim was to put up the best and representative poetry of famo...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Remembering Syed Amin Ashraf: Selection of couplets of the prominent Aligarh-based Urdu poet

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By Shams Ur Rehman Alavi A few months have passed but literary world is still in a state of mourning due to the demise of prominent U...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Poetry on Vehicles: Reading a Ghazal painted on auto-rickshaw on Indian street

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Indscribe You may have often seen couplets or rhyming catch-lines written behind heavy vehicles, particularly, trucks and buses on th...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Shauq Jalandhari: Spreading the fragrance of Urdu poetry in Eastern India

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Renowned Urdu poet Samuel Daniel 'Shauq' Jalandhari is instrumental in keeping Urdu poetry scene alive in regions not considered ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Urdu poets enchant audience at the annual 'Jashn-e-Jamhooriyat' mushaira in Lal Qila

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Pt Anand Mohan Zutshi 'Gulzar' inaugurating a mushaira in Delhi One of the most awaited Mushairas is the annual poetic soiree he...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Delhi's egoist poetic voice falls silent: Urdu poet Shuja Khawar passes away

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By Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Shuja Khawar, who was probably the most distinct poetic voice in Urdu to have come up from Delhi in the post-indep...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Mahlaqa Chanda: Forgotten Urdu poetess before Ghalib, her tomb gets facelift in Hyderabad

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, By Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Mahlaqa Chanda had already compiled her first collection of poetry and attained fame when legendary Urdu poe...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Mushairas in Delhi: Poets and Urdu couplets

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Almost every day there is a grand 'mushaira' somewhere in the country apart from numerous small ones in the towns, however, Delhi be...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Tarahi Mushairas: A glorious tradition of Urdu poetry

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Who hasn't heard of Mushairas in the sub-continent? But what about Tarahi mushairas! While Mushaira is an e...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Homosexuality in Urdu poetry: Tolerance in medieval India and Islamic societies in the past

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Indscribe For once, the Shankaracharya and the Shahi Imam are on the same side as also the BJP and the Muslim leaders. They are all oppos...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

Verse for Humanity in the Times of Terrorism

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Lately I have been posting less poetry on this blog. Going through a collection of verses, I had recently stopped at this Nazm. The language...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Selected couplets of famous poet Munawwar Rana: Urdu Shayari

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In Mushairas, Munawwar Rana is one of the most popular poets across the country. A native of Rae Bareli, Rana grew up in Kolkata. His sim...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Selected couplets of Mirza Ghalib: Legendary Urdu poet's most quoted Urdu 'ashaar'

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Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of the greatest poets of India, sub-continent and the world, was born on December 27, 1797. Here is a se...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Immortal Couplets of Moin Ahsan Jazbi: Famed Urdu Poet's Life and Poetry

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Moin Ashan Jazbi Renowned Urdu poet late Moin Ahsan Jazbi never cared for fame or critics' attention. Though his Nazms and Ghazal...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Remembering Urdu poet Akhtar Shirani: The Poet of Romance

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Great Urdu poet Akhtar Shirani passed away this month nearly 60 years ago. But his unrequited love affair, letters purportedly written ...
Monday, August 20, 2007

Killings, bloodshed across Muslim world: Who are the killers, Who are getting killed?

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maiN yah kiske naam likhuuN jo alam guzar rahe haiN mere shahar jal rahe haiN, mere log mar rahe haiN koi aur to nahiiN hai pas-e-Khan...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Confusion over couplets: Six famous Urdu ash'aar that are quoted in conversations

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This is one of the most quoted line 'is ghar ko aag lag gayee ghar ke chiragh se'. Few people have an idea about the first line. T...