Category Archives: urdu

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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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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Iqbal Bano

I came across this news this week and even though I wasn’t explic­itly aware that she was liv­ing, the news of her death makes one think about the bygone era of tyranny, polit­i­cal upheaval and sup­pres­sion. She was a leg­end not only through her artis­tic tal­ent but also through an insup­press­ible spirit. Like Unlike
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