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Haaye – Haaye is a rhyme scheme (Radif) used by the greatest Urdu poet, Ghalib in one of his ghazals, in which he laments and expresses Haaye – Haaye, alas, alas in English. Let us see what the concerns are which have concerned Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. दर्द से मेरे है तुझको बेक़रारी हाय हाय,…
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English Agentive Suffix – er is morpheme that is added in the last of words modifying their meanings to the doer of that act. Let us look at some common words having this agentive suffix –er and their counterparts in Hindi and we must ponder over as to whether both languages English and Hindi utilize…
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Shrikant Verma was born in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh. His primary education was arranged in Bilaspur itself. After acquiring MA in Hindi from Nagpur University in 1956 he embarked on the literary journey as a journalist. He remained associated with magazines like Shramik, Kriti, Dinman and Varnika and others. The Government of Madhya Pradesh honored him…
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Here is a moving poem of Seemab Akbarabadi in the original script with its free rendition in English. He was a polymath poet of Urdu language, who has enriched his beautiful mother tongue writing poetry and prose genres – Qata’aa, Rubai, Ghazal, Nazm, Noha, Salaam, Essays, Short Stories, Novels, and Biographies etc. He was an…
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Nazir Akbarabadi is admitted by many to be the Shakespeare of Urdu literature and indeed there is no exaggeration and hyperbole in it. Truly, a people’s poet, Nazir has been admired for many laurels to his credit. Amongst others, his humanism is distinct character of the greatness of this Mughal era luminary from Agra also…
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Masoom Muradabadi is a senior Urdu journalist and author. He is the editor of the Urdu news portal ‘Jadeed Khabar’ and the fortnightly newspaper ‘Khabardar’. He has worked in the field of Urdu journalism for the past 35 years. Apart from writing weekly columns in major newspapers of the nation, his articles too, are a…
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Jahangirabad of Shefta indicates to two entities, Jahangirabad a town in the District of Bulandshahr and Shefta, nom de plume of Mustafa Khan Shefta, a Nawab, who is an integral part of the city and the regions around it. Jahangirabad is named after the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir. He had stayed here for a couple of…
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Sultan Shamsi is one of the contemporary Urdu poets continuing the glorious tradition of poesy in the subcontinent. He has a number of poetry collections to his credit that have been published by the leading publishers of India with standard printing norms and pleasing design to the eyes. Andaz-e- Sukhan is in my hand while…
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Ramjo Narnauli, a beautiful courtesan from the historical city of Narnaul in Haryana, now is widely regarded as the muse of Shefta, a pen name for Urdu and Hasrati, name the plume for the Persian literary cannon adopted by Nawab of Jahangirabad, Mustafa Khan. Ramjo, a poet writing with takhallus Nazakat, has been described by…
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Nabigha Dhubyani, one of the six pre-Islamic poets, whose is still relevant.
