Poetic Insults
The poetic rivalry between Mirza Ghalib and his contemporary, Ibrahim Zauq, is legendary, in the courts of Bahadur Shah Zafar. …
Category Archives: Urdu Musings
Akhrajat
Akhrajat means accrued expenses. This word appears in an article published by Hindustan times recently titled “Dawn of an Urdu …
Woh to kul nau baras ka tha…
With inimitable grace, Gulzar saab pens our thoughts for us, on the brutality of humanity today. #Peshawar Apni marzi se …
Epitaph Of A Child In Peshawar
Humanity died the day children were shot dead in Peshawar. A Brutal massacre of 126 school children and their teachers. …
Autobiography of a Donkey
Did you know – that Krishan Chander’s novel Ek Gadhe Ki Sarguzasht (translation: Autobiography of a Donkey) has been translated into …
Walking Manto’s Bombay
Indian Quaterly (IQ) magazine has published a very interesting article on short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s neighbourhoods in Mumbai. …
Sauda
The greatest Urdu Satirist of Mughal India, Mirza Mohammad Rafi Sauda was born in 1713 AD to Mirza Muḥammad Shafi, an aristocrat …
Who put the -stan in Afghanistan?
According to this article by Matt Soniak, the suffix of -stan to many countries can be attributed to the Proto-Indo-European …
Iqbal & Daagh: A master and his disciple
The great poet and philosopher, Allama Iqbal, who conceptualized and elaborated upon the concept of Khudi (the philosophy of Selfhood), …
Comics for the Soul
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Mevlana or Mawlānā (meaning Our Master) and more popularly in the English-speaking world …
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