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Delhiwale: To Mirza with mangoes
Ghalib's love for mangoes revealed in stories from his life, emphasizing his passion for the fruit. A must-read for all mango enthusiasts!
Updated on Jul 08, 2024 05:10 AM IST
Love has the inborn strength to weed out the seedlings of hatred
Bashir Badr, 89, who shone like a star for decades, was a regular at Chandigarh and in Punjab; his home in Meerut was burnt down during Hindu-Muslim riots in 1987; he moved to Bhopal and now lives there in oblivion as he lies in dementia having forgotten his own couplets which we still recall with love and longing
Updated on Jun 16, 2024 08:10 AM IST
Nirupama Dutt
HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on March 30
The day of March 30 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore Delhi's culture. Check it out here!
Updated on Mar 30, 2024 02:36 PM IST
HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on January 20
The day of January 20 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore Delhi’s culture. Check it out here!
Published on Jan 19, 2024 08:30 PM IST
Report: The Mahindra Kabira Festival
Poetry, music, art, food, walks and conversation unfolded over three magical evenings and two eventful days in Varanasi
Published on Jan 10, 2024 10:11 PM IST
HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on January 6
The day of January 6 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore Delhi’s culture. Check it out here!
Updated on Jan 06, 2024 11:52 AM IST
HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on December 28
The day of December 28 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore Delhi’s culture. Check it out here!
Published on Dec 28, 2023 11:36 AM IST
HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on December 24
The day of December 24 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore Delhi’s culture. Check it out here!
Published on Dec 24, 2023 11:53 AM IST
Ghalib’s ‘andaz-e-bayan’ finds favour even with Gen X
The ongoing National Book Fair in Balrampur Gardens is recording a surprisingly good sale of anthologies of couplets and ghazals written by the likes of Mirza Ghalib, ‘Daagh’ Dehlvi, Ibrahim ‘Zauq’, Momin Khan ‘Momin’ and Asrar-ul-Haq ‘Majaz’ etc. In fact, poetry sales are soaring, leaving behind books on politics and politicians, say the sellers, adding the former are catching the fancy of Lucknow youths more.
Updated on Sep 30, 2023 05:46 AM IST
Saif Ali Khan reacts to viral old interview video. Here's what he said
Saif Ali Khan recalled his old viral interview, where he talked about his favourite poets. Here's what the actor has said now.
Updated on May 03, 2022 10:43 PM IST
‘Kaun jeeta hai…’: Tharoor tweets Ghalib on govt plan for ‘Amrit Kaal’
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government aims to attain the vision set out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when India celebrates 100 years of independence in 2047.
Published on Feb 01, 2022 07:10 PM IST
Mirza Ghalib 224th birth anniversary: 10 love couplets by legendary Urdu poet
Mirza Ghalib 224th birth anniversary: Do you hard relate with ‘Ishq ne ‘ġhālib’ nikammā kar diyā varna ham bhī aadmī the kaam ke’? Here are 10 relatable couplets by the Mughal era Urdu poet, Ghalib, that will add all the missing romance to your love and life
Updated on Dec 27, 2021 01:19 PM IST
Zarafshan Shiraz, Delhi
Mirza Ghalib 223rd birth anniversary: 20 couplets by the Mughal era Urdu poet that capture the pathos of love
Mirza Ghalib 223rd birth anniversary: Remembering the legendary Urdu poet and the epitome of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb with these 20 couplets that are sure to add all the missing romance to your love life and are also the best life coach
Updated on Dec 27, 2020 12:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Zarafshan Shiraz
Offbeat Delhi: These 5 spectacular photowalk tours with your DSLR in the National Capital will surely take your breath away
Is your DSLR and vagabond spirit gathering dust and craves to venture locally in the national capital? Well, we have some good news for those in Delhi and these 5 unexplored breathtaking photowalk destinations are proof!
Updated on Aug 19, 2020 09:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Zarafshan Shiraz
Delhiwale: Poetry, in the time of job loss
Mr Hussain is fond of Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmad Faiz (in fact, he is holding a copy of Faiz’s verses right now), Gulzar and many others including Rahat Indori, who died a few days back
Updated on Aug 14, 2020 05:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Delhiwale: A tribute to the king of fruits
Some unforgettable tales, and a recipe for a vanishing mango dish.
Updated on Jun 23, 2020 12:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Keeping humour alive in time of corona alarm, the Punjabi way
Not surprisingly, the coronavirus anxiety has now been weaved into a Punjabi boli (two-line lyric) to which bhangra is performed with joie de vivre.
Published on Mar 14, 2020 10:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Nirupama Dutt, Chandigarh
Mirza Ghalib 222nd birth anniversary: Facts about the legendary Urdu poet
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, better known by his pen name Ghalib and Asad, was born on December 27, 1797.
Updated on Dec 27, 2019 06:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Mirza Ghalib’s 222nd birth anniversary: 7 of his couplets that are timeless
A look at how Mirza Ghalib’s words remain as relevant in today’s society as they were when he wrote them two centuries ago.
Updated on Dec 27, 2019 11:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Sweta Kaushal
Delhiwale: The love life of Ghalib street
Ghalib Street begins at Lodhi Road and ends a few hundred metres further south at the marble tomb of Mirza Ghalib, the great 19th century Urdu poet.
Published on Aug 08, 2019 02:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mayank Austen Soofi
Many poems credited to Gulzar on social media are not his
Talking to HT on the growing phenomenon of poems wrongly attributed to him, the veteran poet said, “Earlier I used to say 99 per cent poems on Whatsapp posted as mine are wrongly attributed to me, but now I can say for sure that 100 per cent of them are fake. I had written a poem called ‘Adatein bhi ajeeb hoti hain’ (Habits are strange, indeed) but I would certainly not write that women are strange!”
Published on Jun 30, 2019 02:35 AM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Review: Broken Man-In search of Homeland
Loknath Yashwant’s poetry talks of caste but critiques the Dalit middle class too
Published on Feb 08, 2019 06:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Dhrubo Jyoti
Most popular couplets by Mirza Ghalib that will stir your soul
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, popularly known as Mirza Ghalib, was a celebrated poet of his times. His work is much-loved by poetry lovers all over the world and today on his 221st birth anniversary, here are some of his most popular couplets.
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 07:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
From Jagjit Singh songs to Nawazuddin Siddiqui dialogues, remembering Mirza Ghalib on his 221st birth anniversary
On Mirza Ghalib’s 221st birth anniversary, revisit his work through songs by Jagjit Singh and dialogues delivered by Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 06:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent, New Delhi