KARACHI: A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi.

Appreciation of Urdu verses found a new wave with poets penning ghazals. Sursinhji Takhtasinh Gohil or ‘Kalapi’, Balashankar Ullasram Kantharia, Manilal Dwivedi - who blended Sufism and ...

Urdu ki Ishq ya Shayri (Urdu Love poetry or ghazal), penned around 1945, is Firaq’s lengthy essay (dedicated to a mysterious, unnamed lover) about the historical evolution of Urdu ghazal.

Mesmerising Urdu Ghazal Sunday, 12 May 2013 | JASKIRAN CHOPRA There is perhaps no one in our country at least, who has not at one time or another in his or her life, been influenced by the beauty ...

She stood near him, her fragile figure trying to be resolute. Big, dark glasses covered her eyes, which were filled with sadness and tears. It had been nearly 24 hours since her husband, known to ...

Renowned Pakistani singer Iqbal Bano died on Tuesday in the eastern city of Lahore aged 74, it has been reported. Ms Bano was best known for her semi-classical Urdu ghazal songs and classical thumris, ...

The ghazal is the most common form of Urdu poetry, and, like sonnets, it follows strict rules of form: four to 12 couplets with a meter and rhyme scheme. But the similarities end there.

Celebrating Urdu: Jashn-e-Rekhta's seventh edition to begin from December 2 The three-day festival will have Ghazals, Sufi music, Qawwali, Dastangoi, panel discussions, Mushaira, poetry ...

Munni Begum, the Bengali refugee who won over Pakistan with her Urdu ghazals ... In 1976 the family managed to scrape together enough money to make a tape of Munni singing ghazals. In Urdu.

Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages. Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language ...