Category Archives: poetry

Reshuffling

All the urdu poetry posts have been moved over to my Moon­struck Blog. Please fol­low your love for poetry there and if pos­si­ble, con­tribute. Thanks. Like Unlike
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Shakespeare’s curse

Shakespeare’s curse, orig­i­nally uploaded by dgj103. As I found a respite from tir­ing appli­ca­tions and worldly affairs, I couldn’t wait to get back to some of Ghalib’s works. How­ever, I stum­bled upon this as I was brows­ing. The tragedy of artists, as rue­ful it is, is also as intrigu­ing and cap­ti­vat­ing. And if tempt­ing the fate [...]
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Ghalib’s heritage endangered

Unfor­tu­nate is the land that can’t uphold it’s own legacy. To have been blessed with the affec­tions of the peer­less Mirza Ghalib is suf­fi­cient alone to make Delhi spe­cial but Delhi has decided to hand the honor over to the obliv­ion. In recent news arti­cle from TOI, the Delhi govt. or the archae­o­log­i­cal depart­ment had [...]
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