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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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Ghalib and Gulzar

If one enu­mer­ates the peo­ple who have made hindi cin­ema more beau­ti­ful and sen­si­tive by their con­tri­bu­tions, Gulzar would be a front run­ner in the list. His inge­nius cre­ativ­ity has come alive on the screen so many times and he has cre­ated his own class. I can not help notic­ing his respect and recog­ni­tion of [...]
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Ghalib’s ‘dekhna kismet ki’

The urdu poetry’s explo­ration project has achieved such unex­pected depths that I’ve decided to sep­a­rate it into another blog, in this case my old unused one. Phi has thrown some sig­nif­i­cant light on to the ghazal I posted 1–2 days ago and the ghazal analy­sis is far from over. Any­ways, I shall pur­sue this ghazal’s [...]
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